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Elaine Motion, chairman of Balfour and Manson, pays tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death last week at the age of 87. I was immensely saddened to hear the news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing at t

Scullion LAW has raised over £230,000 worth of future income for Marie Curie Scotland to help people with a terminal illness.

An article has been published by Professor Colin Reid of Dundee University on the effect of Brexit on environmental governance across the UK. The abstract states: "The UK’s withdrawal from the EU will not bring about immediate changes to the substance of environmental law in the UK,

EU member states can regulate Airbnb-style short-term lets to combat long-term rental housing shortages, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. In a judgment which has only been published in French, the court ruled that French laws requiring landlords to seek authorisation from

New reforms to boost hearing capacity in employment tribunals have been introduced at Westminster. The reforms aim to help the system hear more cases and open up court space to ensure a speedier resolution of cases.

Neil Kinnear from Terra Firma Chambers is to speak at a commercial litigation webinar. The Commercial Law Network, in partnership with Bellwether Green, have launched their first ‘Litigation Week’.

A litigation executive at DAC Beachcroft has been barred from the profession after naming a client on a Facebook post. A decision notice published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) said that Keith Howell also spent excessive time dealing with clients' matters and recording billable t

Solicitor advocate Mike Dailly has applied for permission to appeal a case to the Supreme Court on behalf of his disabled client. Disabled people in Glasgow must pay £30 each week of their social security income to the council to deal with the costs of non-residential social care.

Dentons has announced proposals to combine with Tanzanian law firm, East African Law Chambers (EALC), as part of its plans to become a leading pan-African law firm. EALC has five partners and 13 lawyers and provides legal services for a range of matters including banking and finance, mergers an

An immigration solicitor has been handed a £60,000 fine for bringing dozens of useless removal appeals, The Law Society Gazette reports. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal penalised Syed Wasif Ali and banned him indefinitely from making any further judicial review applications.

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

A man who allegedly slept as his self-driving car broke speed limits on a busy road has been charged with dangerous driving. Police in Alberta, Canada tracked down the 2019 Tesla Model S – which is equipped with a "partially autonomous" system – after a complaint of a car speeding on the

Joanna Cherry QC MP writes about the possibility of the UK government decriminalising torture and the impact this would have on soldiers. Does Boris Johnson care so little for the law that he would allow the decriminalisation of torture?

The proprietor of a flat in Edinburgh who sought to establish that their neighbour had a statutory obligation to pay for half the cost of repairs to the external render of the common wall of their building has had their application rejected by the Sheriff Court.  Karen Lacey argued that th

Anderson Strathern has promoted 18 fee earners in its latest round of promotions including at senior solicitor, associate and senior associate levels. Managing partner Murray McCall said: "We now have established pre-eminent practices across commercial, public sector and private client and when