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Clyde & Co’s team in Scotland has successfully defended a claim brought against its client First Glasgow by Glasgow City Council arising from the Glasgow bin lorry disaster in 2014. The events of 22 December 2014 are well-known. A bin lorry driven by GCC's employee Harry Clarke ran out of

Police officer numbers in Scotland are at their lowest point since early 2009 – well before the Scottish government merged forces to create Police Scotland in 2013. There are currently 17,117 full-time police officers serving across Scotland, as of December 2021, surpassing previous lows recor

A contempt of court hearing linked to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's (SLCC) attempts to recover a file has ended with contempt not being upheld against a solicitor, but with costs awarded. The hearing at the Inner House of the Court of Session was ordered in relation to a solicitor&rsquo

Thursday 17 February 2022 at 6pm The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) are delighted to host a team from the UK Supreme Court who will discuss what life is like working as a judicial assistant.

As of yesterday, the time limit for submitting an application to the European Court of Human Rights is four months, reduced from six.

In a new article, Terra Firma's Maurice O'Carroll considers unauthorised development and immunity from planning enforcement. "Development is unauthorised when it has taken place in the absence of planning permission. A local planning authority (LPA) has the power to issue an Enforcement Notice (EN)

CLT Scotland has launched an important new Conveyancing Conference which will take place online on 23rd March. The conference will focus on a number of key developments, from the imminent launch of the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land, the impact of the recently published Ne

Thursday 3 February 2022 17:15 to 18:45

A notorious fraudster was identified by police halfway across the world after they tricked him into sending his fingerprints on a vinyl record. Italian police suspected that they had found Roberto Vivaldi, 69, in Venezuela but were unable to confirm his identity until they discovered he was selling

Native American tribes have settled for $590 million with Johnson & Johnson and three other drug distribution companies over opioid addiction in their community, The Times reports. The drug giant and distributors McKesson Corp, AmerisourceBergen Corp and Cardinal Health Inc had proposed paying a

Jacqui Taylor has been assigned temporary president of the newly created Local Taxation Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland. The appointment is for three years and is made by the president of the Scottish Tribunals, Lord Woolman.

A 2021 Scottish government scheme providing for the funding of milk and healthy snacks for nursery-age children has been ruled unlawful after a petition for judicial review was brought against it. The School and Nursery Milk Alliance Ltd objected to the funding method of the scheme, asserting that i

Addleshaw Goddard's Open AG network is marking LGBTQ+ History Month in February with two webinars for clients, colleagues and connections of the firm. On 8 February, Richard Angell, campaigns director for the Terrence Higgins Trust, will discuss THT and the work they have done in the HIV journey in

Faculty members have elected Neil Mackenzie QC as the new Keeper of the Advocates Library. Mr Mackenzie was director of training and education at Faculty between December 2017 and June 2021. During this period he built on the strengths of the existing devils’ training programme and devised and

Criminal offences associated with fireworks have been proposed in a new bill. The Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill provides for tougher action on the sale and use of fireworks and the misuse of pyrotechnics. The bill follows the report of an independent Firework Review Group which