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Two Scottish pensioners who lost their entitlement to Winter Fuel Payment and the equivalent Scottish benefit to be introduced in winter 2024/25 after changes were made to the eligibility rules have lost a judicial review challenge to the decisions of both the UK and Scottish governments. Petitioner

The University and College Union has successfully defended claims made against it in the Employment Tribunal by two UCU members who argued they had been discriminated against and harassed by the union because of their gender critical beliefs. The case relates to UCU's Edinburgh University branch opp

The lawyer who led a recent review of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has said it is “absolutely inevitable” that further miscarriages of justice will come to light following the quashing of Peter Sullivan’s murder conviction after nearly four decades in prison. Mr Sull

Ministers have shelved plans to allow AI companies to train their models on copyrighted material unless creators actively opted out, following a backlash. The original proposal, floated in a December consultation, would have created a copyright exemption in favour of AI developers, placing the onus

A personal injury sheriff has awarded just over £6,000 to a groundworker who was injured in a collision between a car and a van in which he was a passenger after finding that the driver acted negligently in his response to an ambulance attempting to join the dual carriageway. Pursuer Stephen L

Macleod & MacCallum has announced a series of promotions. The firm has appointed Aidan Grant and Laura McCarthy as senior associates and Elizabeth Wilson and Gemma Johnston to the position of associate.

Holmes Mackillop has today acquired the private client and property business of D&J Dunlop, introducing a full-service law firm to Ayrshire. Husband and wife team Peter and Pauline McNamara join the expanded team from Ayr-based Lockharts Law as director and head of the Ayr office and executry pa

The UK's broadcasting regulator has fined a religious TV channel for advertising "miracle water" that it implied could cure cancer and erase debt. The Word Network, based in the US, was slapped with a £150,000 fine in relation to two episodes of the Peter Popoff Ministries, hosted by televange

Kennedys has celebrated its 10th anniversary in Scotland with an event at the Citation, Glasgow for clients, staff and friends. Rory Jackson, managing partner of Kennedys in Scotland said: “We have been on quite a journey since we opened our doors in 2015. Today, Kennedys in Scotland is one of

Current legal mechanisms to challenge and dispose of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are not fit for purpose and a new process is needed, according to new research. SLAPPs are lawsuits that are used, often by wealthy and powerful people, to prevent the publication of informa

We will soon be able to store passports, driving licences, and other key documents in a digital wallet on their smartphones, according to plans announced by Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle. Mr Kyle revealed the new smartphone app as part of efforts to simplify government interactions. &l

Macleod & MacCallum, based in Inverness and Portree, won two awards last week. The first win came at the Inverness City Centre Business Awards which took place on 14 November, with the firm winning the Professional & Business Services Award.  

According to The Times of November 1st the total cost of state support for the sick will exceed an unprecedented £100 billion a year by the end of this parliamentary term. This frankly unsustainable health burden is largely the outcome of successive governments placing fiscal imperatives above

The Law Society of Scotland is inviting nominations for honorary membership for outstanding service for the public good by a Scottish solicitor. To mark its 75th anniversary, the Law Society has opened nominations for the award which is normally presented once every two years. The most recent recipi