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As offices around the country begin to reopen, employers must listen to the concerns of staff, writes Keith Anderson. The responsibility to create a safe environment within the office rests with those who lead the business, and it is incumbent upon them to listen to the concerns of their staff.

Gavin Buchan, who heads up Lindsays' banking team, has advised Shot Scope in its latest investment securing £1.5 million in funding from Virgin Money to help the Edinburgh-based company scale globally. Shot Scope has been a client of Lindsays for more than two years.

Carolyn Jackson looks at how the courts have dealt with medical evidence for which there is no record. When weighing up the evidential strength of medical records, lawyers often say that if it wasn’t written down, it didn’t happen. But simply because something has been written down at th

UK residents paid out a record amount of inheritance tax in July after the number of Covid deaths soared. According to new figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), receipts from the 40 per cent death duty hit £571 million in last month, marking the most ever paid in a sin

New animal protection laws will ban people from riding elephants while drunk. The legislation in Sri Lanka will also require domesticated elephants to have biometric identity cards.

Comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning.

A legal expert has documented America's position on the ‘crime of aggression’ towards other countries from the Declaration of Independence up until the Donald Trump administration. Giulia Pecorella, a senior lecturer in law at Middlesex University, has written The United States of Americ

The Sheriff Appeal Court has reduced the sentence of a man convicted of sexually touching a teenager after he appealed against his sentence and lodged a bill of suspension seeking to suspend the sentence imposed by the trial sheriff. William Hepburn, aged 79 at sentencing, was originally s

A tobacco kingpin accused of running an illicit cigarette empire has walked free from court after prosecutors bungled the case against him. Stephen Dunn, 55, allegedly operated an unregistered tobacco business from his home.

Levy & McRae has announced the appointment of clinical negligence specialist Elizabeth Rose as a senior associate. Ms Rose has developed an expertise and well respected practice in medical and clinical negligence cases.

Chris Jones of Themis Advocates has been appointed as an advocate depute. Mr Jones will commence in the role in mid-September and will be unable to accept instructions during his time as advocate depute.

Edinburgh-based Watermans Solicitors has announced a "home advantage" campaign to welcome loyal fans back into their home stadiums in style.

Police have been "fair and proportionate" in their enforcement of Covid-19 restrictions, according to new research published by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA). The independent advisory group chaired by John Scott QC has published a major 141-page report into police use of Covid-19 powers ahead

Pinsent Masons partner Alastair Morrison has been appointed as chair of the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI), the parent charity of Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh's Filmhouse and Aberdeen's Belmont Filmhouse. Mr Morrison, who will take up the role from 30 August 2021, is partner a

Cat MacLean, partner and head of dispute resolution at MBM Commercial, has been appointed to the Business Banking Resolution Service's (BBRE) SME liaison panel. Ms MacLean joins eight other members, including an English lawyer and business experts, on the panel, which will advise the BBRS on issues