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This month marks a year since the UK went into its first national lockdown in response to Covid-19. The legal sector adapted quickly and embraced technology to continue to deliver legal services.  This adaptability has been particularly evident in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) – sp

The mother of a cheerleader has been accused of creating deepfake images of her daughter's teammates after the girl was spurned by them. Raffaela Spone, 50, took photos of three members of the Victory Vipers from social media before creating deepfake images.

A woman whose ex-partner forged her signature on a standard security over her home in Edinburgh has successfully had the document reduced by Edinburgh Sheriff Court. Gillian Pearce stated she was not aware of the security granted in favour of David Myers until two years after its

More than 350 sheriff solemn cases were concluded in February, which is 82 per cent of the pre-Covid level. Figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service show that during the month of February:

Anderson Strathern has appointed Alison Pryde as a tax director. Ms Pryde brings nearly 30 years’ experience providing tax advisory services, with a particular focus on rural landowners, family businesses, professional partnerships, landlords and high net worth individuals. A law graduate from

Calling someone “old-school” is not necessarily ageist, a tribunal has ruled in a dispute involving an employee's preference for uppercase letters. Lydia Roganovic, 50, insisted on publishing social media tags in capital letters when she worked at iplato Healthcare Ltd in London.

Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has welcomed official figures showing the volume of crime covered by the survey in Scotland is down 46 per cent since 2008-09, with violent crime having fallen by nearly two-fifths (39 per cent) over the same period. The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) 2019-20

Thieves, robbers and burglars will be given GPS tags to track their whereabouts when they are released from prison in order to curb re-offending. Data from tags will let police check details of burglaries against movements of known offenders to determine whether they might be suspects.

Since the government’s national lockdown restrictions were implemented in January, criminal courts have focused on the most serious trials, with the majority of summary trials in the Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court adjourned. Having reviewed the Covid-19 transmission levels and th

The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.

A Crown appeal against the Sheriff Appeal Court’s decision to quash the convictions of three men who wore allegedly offensive T-shirts to a football match between Celtic FC and Linfield FC has succeeded in the High Court of Justiciary. Daniel Ward, Martin Macaulay and Ryan

Levy & McRae has announced a number of promotions. The firm has promoted to legal director: Sandra Biggart (private client/matrimonial), who trained with the firm in the mid-1990s and has spent most of her career there and Carol Boyd, (commercial litigation) who joined the firm in 2016 and

Michael Reid, managing partner at Meston Reid & Co, gives his take on how changes to insolvency law could come into play for one key industry sector – the fishing industry. Whether it is the continuing impact of Covid-19 or the more recently reported effects of Brexit, media comments proli

Legislation has been passed giving more powers to police and courts to protect people at risk of domestic abuse. The Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill aims to enable police and courts to ban suspected abusers from re-entering the home and from approaching or contacting the person at risk f

On Thursday 25 March, the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland will host a webinar exploring some of the discrimination issues that could arise for workers now and in the coming months. The end of lockdown is on the horizon and with that various employment-related issues which could give ri