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Murgitroyd has announced its acquisition of of UDL Intellectual Property (UDL), a UK-based IP practice. This follows its recent acquisition of Hanna Moore + Curley in Ireland. UDL, founded over 100 years ago, is headquartered in Leeds, with offices in Bristol, Cardiff, London, Milton Keynes, and New

A scheme organised by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC has seen more than 100 female Afghan judges and their families rescued, The Times reports. Working with a team of pro bono lawyers, she has raised more than £1 million, chartered planes and organised the transfer of hundreds of people to Athens.

Nine prisoners have died at a maximum security prison this year, where guards have claimed authorities turn a blind eye as inmates are easier to deal with when they are on drugs, The Times reports. The deaths happened at HMP Shotts, in North Lanarkshire. Russell Findlay, the Conservative MSP for Wes

Turcan Connell is hosting a series of short virtual seminars covering the legal (and other) implications of the evolving market for trading carbon in the UK. Land and property partner, Don Macleod, said: “Over the last couple of years we have been advising some of the major participants in the

A couple spent so much on lawyers in a bitter divorce battle that they destroyed their lifestyle in what a judge has called “nihilistic litigation”. Mr Justice Peel in the Family Division of the High Court said the visible assets” of Captain Paul Crowther, 55, and his wife Caroline

Solicitor Waqqas Ashraf has founded his own law firm – WA Legal. The new practice, which operates nationwide, deals with criminal defence and road traffic law. 

Lord Menzies is to retire after 20 years on the bench. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Courts in 2001 and was appointed to the Inner House in February 2012.

The UK’s national human rights institutions are warning that the human rights implications of the climate crisis must be tackled during COP26 in Glasgow. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission highlighted that

Lawyers at a major City firm will be able to buy electric cars through a new scheme designed to contribute to the fight against climate change. Stephenson Harwood, which employs over 1,100 people across eight global offices, will make the scheme available to all staff in London from next year.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

A desk-based soldier's weight was fair game in a performance review, a court in Italy has ruled. A regional court in Tuscany dismissed a complaint brought by a soldier working as an accountant for the logistics regiment of a paratroopers brigade in Pisa.

Pictured (L-R): Neil Risk and Willie Shannon of Anderson Strathern (by Dave Donaldson) Anderson Strathern has made a director hire at its Lerwick office in Shetland, with Willie Shannon joining the team.

The High Court of Justiciary has increased by five years the sentence of a man jailed on charges of attempted rape and sexual assault of two male complainers, including a teenager, following an appeal by the Crown. Michael McCarthy, the respondent, was originally sentenced to five years’ impri

Richard Hepburn, MD, Millar & Bryce, takes a look at the latest residential property data. The property market has clearly ebbed and flowed throughout 2020 and 2021; there was a low when the property market was forced to temporarily close amid Covid lockdowns before the highs emerged following t

Shockwaves reverberated through the cycling community recently when a jury returned a ‘not proven’ verdict against a car driver, Jordan McDowall, following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. The 21-year-old was acquitted of causing the death of 51 year-old cyclist, Kevin Gilchrist, by