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A judge has rebuked a man who tried to present his case through an AI-generated character. Jerome Dewald, 74, was granted permission to show a video to an appeals courts in New York where he was appealing a ruling in an employment dispute.

Murray Beith Murray has announced that three senior solicitors have been promoted to associate. Anna MacLeod, Sally Scott Lintott and Adam Swayne took up their new roles on April 1. Ms MacLeod joined the firm in 2017 and specialises in rural property and agricultural affairs; Ms Scott joined the fir

New regulations are now in force to protect lowest earning debtors, writes Ahsan Mustafa. An Earnings Arrestment Schedule is an effective method of diligence which puts the onus on a debtor’s employer to repay the debt through deducting the employee’s wages. Breach of an Earnings Arrestm

According to the Scottish government, it’s estimated that there are 52,000 unpaid carers in Scotland. Given the stereotypes and societal expectations surrounding the word ‘carer’, there can be a reticence for those within and outside the workplace to identify themselves with this t

Dear Editor, I’m relieved that I won’t have to learn about the new Registers of Moveable Transactions, as these days my interests lie in other fields (perhaps waters would be a better term as I contemplate the approach of the sailing season) but the news reminded me of a story that my fa

Amendments to the Housing (Scotland) Bill that set out how rents will be capped in rent control areas have been lodged by the Scottish government.

I wrote in February on The Burden of Compliance, having read the articles about the Scottish Law Agents Society and their survey of the profession. Happily, I was wrong and they did get a good response. Certainly more than enough for statistical significance. And it was at least a neutral exercise u

The owners of a Category A listed country house in Ayrshire have lost a judicial review challenge against a purported decision of a local authority that a 2004 grant of planning permission imposing conditions on the development of the estate remained extant after a lord ordinary ruled the letter all

The Scottish government may have abandoned its proposed misogyny law. The government has officially blamed the delay in introducing its misogyny legislation on the Supreme Court case dealing with the definition of 'woman' despite the fact that that action has been going on for a number of years.

Bookings are now being taken for the Faculty of Advocates' 17th annual World Intellectual Property Day Conference, which takes place later this month. The annual free event will be held in the Mackenzie Building in Edinburgh on Friday 25 April. It is open to all advocates, solicitors, devils, traine

The title of this blog is inspired by one of the speakers at the conference on 25 March when the Open University (OU) Law School hosted a conference at the OU office in Edinburgh entitled Vicarious Trauma Education and the Legal Profession Now and in the Future, writes Gillian Mawdsley. The in-perso

Five people are facing prosecution for allegedly threatening the judge who barred far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 French presidential election. Judge Bénédicte de Perthuis, who sentenced Ms Le Pen on Monday, was granted special police protection in response to o

The average selling price of property in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders was £283,912 in January-March 2025, an annual increase of 6.1 per cent. In the capital, there was a notable jump of 6.8 per cent, resulting in a new average selling price in Edinburgh of £304,064. Taki

A group of colleagues from international law firm CMS put their best foot forward last month to raise over £13,000 for charity.