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A court has found that a weedkiller produced by Monsanto gave a former school groundskeeper cancer. A jury in San Francisco found the company that makes Roundup weedkiller liable for 46-year-old Dewayne Johnson's cancer, awarding him $289 million in damages.

Scotland's prosecutors and courts are to get extra funding to respond to the growth in sexual offence reports and reduce the time such cases take to progress through the justice system. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) will u

The University of Stirling has welcomed legal academics Dr Katie Boyle and Dr Michelle Donnelly to the law and philosophy division. Dr Boyle, who has been appointed as associate professor in international human rights law, qualified as a solicitor with the Government Legal Service for

The SNP has called for the reform and devolution of inheritance tax following reports IHT raised a record £5.2 billion in 2017-18. In the financial year 2016-17, £283m was raised in Scotland – with receipts growing 12 per cent over the preceding decade.  

Scottish insolvency practitioners may be able to use a decision of the Supreme Court in an English case on time limit in support of bringing claims against company directors, even if the claims are over five years old and, on the face it of it, are out of time, writes Katrina Lumsdaine. The Sup

Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has written to the Lord Advocate to "query the very low numbers of prosecutions and convictions" for the offence of upskirting in Scotland which he believes are "counter-intuitive". The party said that the law has "only been used

Weightmans LLP has reported increased turnover and a drop in profits in the latest financial year. Turnover increased by three per cent to £97.1 million as the firm emerges from its first year following the launch of a new strategy and restructure. 

In response to the possibility of asylum seekers in Glasgow facing homelessness and ‎destitution, emergency Scottish government funding will be given to charities until their legal options have been exhausted. The Destitute Asylum Seeker Service (DASS) is being given £110,000 for the next

The University of Strathclyde Law Clinic has received a £2,880 funding award from SafeDeposits Scotland Trust for a project to educate tenants and homeowners in Glasgow and the surrounding areas. The ‘Housing Advice Under One Roof’ initiative will research the Housing & Propert

The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has recommended that Police Scotland apologise after an incident last July in which officers pointed firearms at several people and forced a man out of his home at gunpoint in Edinburgh. During a period of about 90 minutes on 22 July last ye

CMS has announced the appointment of Allan Wernham as its managing director in Scotland. He takes lead responsibility for the firm’s three Scottish offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen with an overall team of more than 350 staff and partners.  A partner and real estate speciali

Accountancy giant Ernst & Young (EY) has bought a law firm to "reduce costs of routine legal activities" in a move that sees the Big Four further encroach into the legal market. EY announced that it has acquired Riverview Law, with Chris Price, EY global head of alliances – tax becomi

The UK's decision to leave the European Union should not immediately affect the execution of a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued by it, according to an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice. Giving his view on a case concerning the extradition of a suspected criminal to the

Nicola Tully and Thomas Giddens have been appointed as lecturers at Dundee University. Ms Tully has taught law at further and higher education institutions for almost 20 years. She studied at the University of Abertay (now Abertay University), graduating in 1997 with a BA (Hons) in Law and a Di

Inksters Solicitors has moved into Aberdeen with Rory Cradock joining the firm to set up an office at 9 Queens Road. Mr Cradock has many years of experience of the Aberdeen property market with, in recent years, time spent as a senior lawyer at James & George Collie as well as the Mortgage and P