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A former Conservative minister is to lead an investigation into the scope of judicial review. Lord Faulks has been appointed to head the panel, which also includes Dundee University's Professor Alan Page, Vikram Sachdeva QC, Professor Carol Harlow, an honorary QC, of the LSE, and Celina Colquho

A treasure hunter who posted his rare finds online has been arrested for allegedly plundering archaeological sites with a metal detector. The 34-year-old man, who has not been named, apparently uploaded photos of his huge collection of Phoenician gold jewellery and Islamic, Roman and Visigoth artefa

There were no high-value fraud prosecutions in Scotland in the first half of this year, according to data from KPMG. The firm’s bi-annual Fraud Barometer measures fraud cases with losses of £100,000 or more reaching the UK courts. For the first time in the history of the report, zer

More than 5,000 local law firms and up to half of law centres in England and Wales could go bust as a result of the COVID-19 crisis if the UK government does not step in, MPs have warned. In a new report, Westminster's justice select committee has urged the Ministry of Justice to consider further gr

Colleagues at Burness Paull have said they are heartbroken after the sudden passing of a partner at the firm. Theresa Hunt, who was based in the firm’s Aberdeen office and a leading member of its specialist planning law team, passed away on Friday 24 July. She was 40 years old.

And what is better than wisedoom? Womman. And what is bettre than a good womman? Nothyng.

The vast majority of medium-sized businesses in Scotland can only continue trading for up to nine months with current funding arrangements, according to new research from accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO. BDO’s second Re-thinking the Economy survey reveals that medium-sized business

The Supreme Court ought to be abolished and have its functions transferred to an appeal court comprising judges drawn from the UK's three legal jurisdictions, a senior barrister and academic has suggested. In a paper for the Policy Exchange think tank, Derrick Wyatt QC, emeritus professor of law at

In his latest jurisprudential primer, the third on neurolaw, Benjamin Bestgen details more technologies on the horizon which the law will have to get to grips with, including 'brainhacking' and 'memory engineering'. In the “Morty’s Mindblowers” episode of the cartoon seri

The new Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates is Ronnie Renucci QC. The post of Vice-Dean became vacant when Roddy Dunlop QC was elected Dean of Faculty last month. Following a ballot between last Friday morning and 3pm today, Mr Renucci was elected by members of Faculty in a two-way contest with Ly

A patent for a monitoring apparatus for handheld power tools has been held to be valid following a challenge of its validity in a patent infringement case.  Reactec Ltd originally brought an action against Curotec Team Ltd seeking interdict against patent infringement on the grou

Almost £4 million has been allocated by the Drug Deaths Taskforce to projects to support its work reducing harm and deaths. The taskforce has announced the Scottish government funding for research and front-line services to help tackle the drug deaths public health emergency over the next year

Innes Clark looks at redundancy and the right to appeal, which is not as clear cut as you might have thought. An appeal against a decision to make an employee redundant appears in many, if not most, company redundancy procedures. While the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievanc

The challenge to the Inverclyde Local Development Plan by five leading house builders and developers has been successful. In MacTaggart and Mickel Homes Limited and Others v Inverclyde Council and Another [2020] CSIH 44, the Inner House of the Court of Session quashed the housing chapter of the Inve

Gordon MacLure details the steps businesses can take now to get some breathing space as the HMRC's preferential creditor status has now been restored. HMRC’s secondary preferential creditor status was restored on 22 July 2020 when the Finance Act 2020 received Royal Assent. This makes HMR