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As the Bribery Act 2010 approaches its 10th birthday on 1 July, Tom Stocker explains why it is widely recognised as an excellent piece of legislation which transformed the corporate compliance landscape. The Bribery Act simplified the law of bribery by making it clear that bribery arose when a perso

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been suspended from practising law in New York because of his "demonstrably false and misleading claims" about the 2020 presidential election. Mr Giuliani, a former mayor of New York who has served as disgraced former president Donald Trump's personal lawyer since 2018

Two nude sunbathers who had to be rescued after being startled by a deer and getting lost in a forest have been fined. The two men had to call for help after they got lost in the Royal National Park in New South Wales, Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

The High Court in London has dismissed an application to strike out a claim brought by more than 7,000 Malawian tobacco farmers – including over 3,000 children – against British American Tobacco and Imperial. The two tobacco companies had asked the court to throw out claims brought by to

Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school—we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best. “After you have done the best you can,” he used to sa

A judicial review petition by the General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation challenging a decision of the Deputy Chief Constable of Police Scotland to institute misconduct proceedings against him has been refused by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Calum S

Members of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) are invited to respond to a survey on their preferred option for the distribution of the remainder of the Scottish government's resilience fund. The government, which has paid out £2.3m of the £9.5m fund, has sought the opini

The UK's data protection regime has been given a pass by the EU, for now. Paul Motion explains the details. The European Commission has adopted two data “adequacy decisions” for the UK. This action resolves a major concern after Brexit, that whilst personal data flowing from the UK to th

What have a drum, a sign and a door knocker got to do with land ownership in Scotland? All is revealed in the next film in the National Museums Scotland's Collecting the Present series, which explores objects that document community buyouts in the islands of Eigg and Ulva.

BBM Solicitors has announced the promotion of Ewan Hazelton to senior solicitor in its commercial litigation and insolvency team in Edinburgh and welcomes Thomas Holligan as solicitor in the same team following completion of his traineeship at BBM . The firm has also welcomed Vajiha Ali to its

Iskander Fernandez, partner at law firm BLM, discusses HMRC's role in leading over 12,000 interventions into the use of UK government Covid support schemes. Research by BLM into the various coronavirus-related fiscal support schemes revealed that at the close of Q1 2021, HM Revenue & Customs (HM

A group established by four Scottish law firms to benefit clients and lawyers by creating free, standardised template documents to streamline the process for buying, selling and leasing property in Scotland is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The Property Standardisation Group (PSG) launched in 200

Anderson Strathern was recently reappointed as legal adviser to Crown Estate Scotland, the body that manages a wide range of assets in Scotland. Crown Estate Scotland recently announced that it expects gross revenue from 2021-22 to be approximately £26 million, due to an increase in offshore w

The average residential property price in Scotland has increased by 92 per cent since the start of house price data from Registers of Scotland (RoS) in 2003-04. The latest statistics from Registers of Scotland’s Property Market Report 2020-21 show that the average price of a residential proper

Businesses could soon face a deluge of legal actions brought against them over greenhouse gas emissions due to advances in climate science, according to experts. In excess of 1,500 legal actions have already been initiated against fossil fuel companies which have played a major role in carbon emissi