Jones Whyte has welcomed nine new trainees to the firm, bringing the total trainee pool to 20. This year’s induction programme received further investment and provided insight into the firm’s culture, expectations, and high standards of client service. Sessions were delivered by a range
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A primary school worker who abused her position to embezzle thousands of pounds from school funds earmarked to help pupils from impoverished backgrounds has been jailed for 16 months. Administrative officer Jane Duncan, 54, of Dundee, stole around £28,000 from Mill O’Mains Primary betwee
The UK’s gender pay gap reporting has helped improve transparency around workplace pay disparities, with many organisations demonstrating measurable progress in narrowing the gap - but the Employment Rights Bill (ERB) will compel large employers to go further by publishing targeted gender pay
Strong-arm tactics against whistleblowers, and over-reaching in litigation, can backfire badly for businesses – with severe consequences, writes Euan McSherry. A recent Scottish court ruling (Martin McGowan v Springfield Properties) highlights the dangers businesses face when using legal inter
House prices in Scotland edged up in August despite demand falling flat, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey. A net balance of -2 per cent of surveyors in Scotland was reported for new buyer enquiries in August, indicating a flat picture,
South Africa's constitutional court has ruled against a law barring husbands from taking their wives' surnames. The apartheid-era legislation was ruled unconstitutional for discriminating on the basis of gender, South African newspaper The Citizen reports.
Albania has appointed an AI chatbot as a government minister who it says will be "free of corruption". "Diella" – meaning "Sun" in Albanian – has been put in charge of public procurement, The Guardian reports.
A group of homeowners in Motherwell have been successful in an action before the sheriff seeking to interdict the owners of a neighbouring corner property from erecting a boundary wall and electric gate at the front of their driveway after establishing the continued existence of a real burden over t
The Hollywood template for a successful film has been said to be: ‘Start with an earthquake and build up to the climax of the story’. There is a sense by which Sir David Murray, admittedly on his own narrative, might have selected from a variety of earthquakes with a wide choice of excit
The number of diversion from prosecution cases commenced rose by seven per cent between 2023-24 and 2024-25 from 3,400 to 3,600, figures from the chief statistician show. This was the highest level in the last 10 years.
A prisoner accused of threatening to shoot an officer after being served a jacket potato for lunch has gone on trial. Nicholas Brock, 57, a far-right sympathiser from Maidenhead, Berkshire, is currently serving a sentence for possessing terrorist materials. He is alleged to have threatened to kill a
Garden Stirling Burnet (GSB) has acquired Shoosmiths’ Scottish will bank. The deal sees the transfer of responsibility of around 1,500 wills to GSB.
Burges Salmon has announced the appointment of Lillian Mackenzie as a partner in its projects department, based in the firm’s Edinburgh office. Ms Mackenzie's practice spans infrastructure finance, major outsourcings, and public-private partnerships (PPP/PFI), with a track record of advising s
