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Elaine Elder discusses the implications of the new policy adopted by Aberdeen City Council to tackle the local empty-housing crisis. Aberdeen City Council has adopted a new policy to tackle the local empty-housing crisis.

The English Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions against a decision that a widow of a formerly polygamous marriage was entitled to Bereavement Payment and Widowed Parent’s Allowance. Nasim Akhtar, the respondent, had married her husband, A, in P

Ireland has been fined over €15 million and is continuing to accrue daily fines of €15,000 for failing to comply with a European court order linked to a wind farm development. The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) imposed pecuniary penalties on Ireland in N

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Scottish cities including Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen could see employment rise by 5-7 per cent as a result of increased availability of office space in the wake of the pandemic, according to a new report by KPMG. Covid-19 has triggered a shift in the way people work, interact, and shop. As busi

Members of Edinburgh Law School's Understanding Inequalities project have published two new high profile reports. The first report, authored by Professor Susan McVie, details data on the number of charges reported by Police Scotland under the Coronavirus Regulations between March 2020 and June 2021

The Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network is running a climate conference entitled Using the Law to Tackle the Climate Emergency on Thursday 21 October 2021 at Blythswood Hall, Glasgow. At the event, supported by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, Ben Christman, Javier Martin-Torres a

A group of social justice lawyers based in Glasgow have secured on behalf of asylum seekers in Scotland the right to access legal aid for representation in tribunal appeals, where they face eviction from housing provided by the Home Office. The Glasgow Social Justice Lawyers came together in summer

The Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network (SCELN) has had success in its “Seventh Gas Campaign”, after the UK government recently pledged to bring forward amendments to the UK’s Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA 2008) within the year in response to pressure from the group. SCELN was

A publication of statistics on the number of suspected drug deaths during the first half of 2021 shows a small decrease (one per cent) on the same period last year. The report covers January to June this year.

CMS has advised Smart Metering Systems Plc (SMS) on its latest equity placing. The transaction involved an accelerated bookbuild process, managed by Cenkos Securities plc, Investec Bank plc and RBC Capital Markets, to raise around £175 million investment through a share placing. SMS is a fully

Law firms across the UK are being encouraged to take part in a cycling challenge to raise money for Breast Cancer Now. Tour de Law takes place over a week, from Monday 11th October – Sunday 17th October 2021, bringing together employees across the UK legal sector to get moving, get fundraising

Boris Johnson has been filmed telling supporters that the UK has become the "Saudi Arabia of penal policy" under Home Secretary Priti Patel. He made the remarks, which have been widely condemned, at a private fundraising dinner for the Cities of London & Westminster Conservative Association (CLW

Nikki Hunter clears up the confusion left in the wake of a recent Outer House case. Practitioners may have read with interest the case of D v D [2021] CSOH 66 where both senior counsel and the instructing agent gave evidence about the advice which they tendered to their former client (the pursuer in

The number of venture capital ‘megadeals’ in the UK has increased tenfold over the last decade, according to a report by Shoosmiths in partnership with data platform Beauhurst. Ten years ago saw just five ‘megadeals’ – where £50 million or more was invested into U