A $210m claim against Burness Paull will go to a full Scottish civil trial after Edinburgh’s Court of Session found last month that legacy firm Paull & Williamsons had acted in breach of conflict of interest rules. While the court found that the firm did not act fraudulently, the case is now likely to move to a full hearing in early 2018.
In the meantime, claimant Robert Kidd, former chair and principal shareholder of oil service firm International Tubular Services (ITS), has confirmed he will lodge professional complaints against the lawyers involved – former legacy Paull & Williamsons partners Ken Gordon and Scott Allan, as well as Ledingham Chalmers consultant Malcolm Laing – to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission and The Law Society of Scotland.
