A property development company which sued Scotland’s largest local authority for £15 million following a dispute over a contract to develop a site has had its claim dismissed as “irrelevant”. PIP3 raised an action against Glasgow City Council for breach of contract after the local authority r
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Karen Reid The Care Inspectorate has published a report detailing over 100 serious incidents involving offenders on license or under statutory supervision between June 2013 and January 2015.
Barry Brooks Lawyers occupy more floor space than virtually any other professionals. Now one law firm has come up with an answer to the waste of space: young lawyers are to given cubicles instead of offices.
Lynda Towers Nominations for the Law Society of Scotland's In-house Lawyers Group (ILG) Rising Star Award are now open.
Paul Motion Scots law firm bto Solicitors has taken the stage at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the sixth consecutive year.
A trade union which challenged the introduction of fees for claimants to pursue employment tribunals has had an appeal for judicial review of the policy refused. Unison argued that the decline in the number of cases being brought to tribunal was due to claimants now having to pay anything up to £1,
Anthony Kinahan, Secretary, The Scottish Council of Law Reporting, writes: Readers of Scottish Legal News may be interested to learn of some work by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting to make important historic (but still cited) Scottish law reports available as widely as possible. As a result BA
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By Professor James Chalmers The previous two days of the Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) currently taking place in Glasgow Sheriff Court must have been at least frustrating and often deeply distressing for everyone involved.
A Scottish solicitor who entered into a sexual relationship with a “vulnerable” client has been found guilty of professional misconduct. The unnamed lawyer was fined £5,000 by the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) for “acting in a manner that raised issues as to his trustworthine
Malcolm Hurlston CBE The number of business debt judgments recorded in Scotland rose sharply in the first half of 2015, according to new Registry Trust figures.
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is to demand answers of Police Scotland after the force failed to deny it had used surveillance powers to spy on journalists in order to flush out their sources. Paul Holleran, NUJ organiser in Scotland, will call on police to reveal whether they used their po
Lord Neuberger Leading figures from the worlds of law, politics and academia are preparing to defend their historical alter egos from the charge of treason next week.
Pictured: Bill Drummond, Managing Partner of Brodies LLP, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Rt Hon Donald Wilson, and Roy Sneddon visit Parliament Hall Cancer charity Maggie's is bringing its successful fundraising event, the Maggie's Culture Crawl, to Edinburgh for the first time with the support of B
Chairman, Murray Shaw Gillespie Macandrew LLP has confirmed a 2 per cent increase in turnover to £9.8 million in the year to 28 February 2015.
A recently-established organisation aimed at improving access to justice for women in Scotland is the latest body to form a link with the Faculty of Advocates' pro bono service. The Scottish Women's Rights Centre (SWRC) has joined a list of 30 partner agencies accredited by the Free Legal Services U
