This month brought another interesting development in the ongoing saga of employment status for gig economy workers, writes Meghan Jenkins. Last Wednesday the English High Court rejected a judicial review challenge in the case of R (on the application of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britai
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A dog may be reprieved from a death sentence after the Faculty of Advocates’ Criminal Appeal Service provided free assistance to an animal charity.
Law firms In the law firms league table, Livingstone Brown Solicitors once again came out on top, though its fees slipped by eight per cent. The figure for 2017-18 was £1,762,000, down on the previous year's £1,924,000.
Irish Legal News, our sister publication, has run the strange story of ‘Typhoid Mary’ as part of its Legal Heritage series. We thought it sufficiently interesting to republish here on Scottish Legal News.
A charity promoting freedom of expression has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump for allegedly violating the First Amendment by attacking journalists. PEN America argues that the US president has used the powers of the federal government to retaliate against journalists an
BTO Solicitors LLP has announced it will be supporting art workshops for residents at Hillside View Care Home in Paisley this autumn.
A dedicated team of walkers from Miller Hendry have raised a total of £3,325 after completing a special charity trek in memory of two former colleagues who passed away.
With high street trading continuing to falter, the question of whether a landlord can oblige a tenant to continue trading has once again come back into focus. Here, Jennifer Guy reviews what a keep open clause is, the potential remedies of a breach available to a landlord and the points to consider
Livia Ziegelmeyer has joined Thorntons as a solicitor in the firm's commercial property team in St Andrews. Before joining Thorntons in September 2018, she studied at the University of Coimbra in Portugal before completing her LLM in petroleum law and policy at the University of Dundee.
Poland has pushed ahead with the appointment of 27 judges to its Supreme Court bench in spite of pressure from the international legal community and the EU, which believes its judicial reforms are illegal. A spokesperson for President Andrzej Duda said the government was "im
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been asked for an advisory opinion clarifying the obligations of authorities in France, where surrogacy is illegal, to transcribe the foreign birth certificate of a child born through surrogacy. France's Court of Cassation, the highest co
It’s hard to believe only ten years have passed since touchscreen phone keyboards entered the mainstream, sweeping away the misery of millions who otherwise had to type messages with a number pad. Unfortunately for BlackBerry and its iconic QWERTY keyboard, the touchscreen revolution also her
The International Bar Association’s Legal Policy & Research Unit is undertaking a global survey focusing on bullying and harassment in the legal profession.
A go-kart operator that allowed drivers to dress up as Mario characters and drive through major Japanese cities has lost a court battle with Nintendo. The video game company said the MariCAR go-kart service did not have permission to allow drivers to dress up as its characters.
The right to a civil partnership will be extended to different-sex couples in England and Wales, Prime Minister Theresa May has announced. In June, the Supreme Court said the existing law on civil partnerships was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Right
