A third of Scotland's school roll has parents who live separately. Some, by agreement or by court order, share the parenting of the children on an equal, 50:50 basis. For others, the children will reside exclusively with one parent and may have little or no contact with the other. The likelihood is
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The Law Society of Scotland has condemned comments from the UK shadow justice secretary and the "increasing prevalence of rhetoric designed to undermine the independence of the judiciary". At the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Manchester this week, Robert Jenrick proposed to restore
Burges Salmon has advised AlphaReal, the specialist real assets investment manager, on a bespoke £40 million lending solution to Highland Broadband, enabling the substantial expansion of its fibre network across rural Scotland. The Scottish National Investment Bank is also supporting the initi
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has allowed an appeal by a London firm of solicitors against a finding that it had unlawfully deducted just over £7,800 in wages from a newly qualified solicitor by failing to make a commission payment due under his contract of employment, after finding that it w
Legislation that aims to reduce the number of domestic abuse-related homicides and suicides in Scotland and also update the criminal justice regime has been passed unanimously at Holyrood. The Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews (Scotland) Bill will legally require
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has allowed an appeal against a decision that a company that contracted for the purchase of millions of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic was due to pay $16 million to the seller after finding that the High Court judge had decided the case on grounds no
The Crown Office is to re-examine the death of a student who took his own life after a grading error at the University of Glasgow. Ethan Brown, 24, died in December 2024 on the day he was due to graduate.
Extreme H, the hydrogen motorsport series, has announced Shoosmiths as its official legal services provider. The partnership will see Shoosmiths support Extreme H as it launches a new era for global motorsport. The firm has been advising Extreme E since its inception in 2019 when it launched the wor
The introduction of the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill has been welcomed by the Economy and Fair Work committee. The bill would place a duty on all local authorities to work with public bodies to adopt a community wealth building (CWB) partnership approach. According to the bill, this wou
Terra Firma Chambers in conjunction with SOLAR hosted a Common Good Conference at The Mackenzie Building, Edinburgh on 29 September. The event was chaired by Terra Firma’s stable director, Alasdair Burnet KC, and featured talks by fellow TFC members Mark Lazarowicz, Francesca Glendinning
A sheriff has granted an application by a single woman in her late forties to adopt a four-year-old child and dispensed with the consent of her parents after determining that they would be unable to satisfactorily discharge their responsibilities for the foreseeable future and the orders they propos
A conference on censorship was cancelled after participants objected to diktats on what they could and could not say in their presentations. The conference, titled "Redacted: Navigating the Complexities of Censorship", was set to take place at Weber Sate University in the US state of Utah on 2 and 3
