Business investment in Scotland has lagged for the majority of the past decade and could have detrimental impact on productivity and longer-term economic growth, a new report has warned. Launched in 1998 and now in its 25th year, the Scottish Business Monitor is compiled by the Fraser of A
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Ukrainian lawyer Larysa Zhdankina writes about her journey to Scotland last year following the Russian invasion. Our house in Kyiv is located 20 minutes from Zhulyany airport and Vasylkiv military airfield. These objects were attacked in the first minutes of the invasion. The remains of the fir
Scottish Legal News is delighted to wish our sister publication Scottish Construction Now many happy returns as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Eversheds Sutherland is taking almost 6,000sq ft of space on the ground floor of BAM Properties’ and Federated Hermes’s Capital Square development in Edinburgh. The firm is the sixth occupier to commit to the building following Anderson Strathern, Pinsent Mason and Brodies, audit and tax
An advocate has called for the term “alternative dispute resolution” or “ADR” to be removed from the language of dispute resolution lawyers. Addressing the annual dinner of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Scottish Branch on Friday evening [24 February 2023], Westwater
Friday, 24 February 2023 marked one year since Russia launched its illegal invasion of Ukraine. Law Society of Scotland president Murray Etherington reflects on what has been lost and achieved in the past year, and on the importance of remaining steadfast in providing support through the struggles a
Shamima Begum has failed in her appeal over the decision to deprive her of British citizenship because she is a threat to national security. The semi-secret Special Immigration Appeals Commission decided today that the revocation of her citizenship in 2019 was lawful.
The business team at Blackadders has helped steer through the sale of the online activity booking site, ClassForKids. ClassForKids, the Glasgow-based site which is used by more than 3,000 kids’ activity clubs to help parents and owners save time and money, has been sold to The Access Group, on
Juries in England and Wales are more likely to convict than acquit a defendant of rape, and this has been the case for at least 15 years, according to a large-scale analysis of all jury verdicts by University College London’s Professor Cheryl Thomas. The analysis found that the jury conviction
The latest Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) employment trends survey revealed three-quarters of UK business are struck by labour shortages and industries across the UK have reported significant issues with recruitment. Exacerbated by Brexit, the end of free movement and the impact of
Attention has recently focused on policy and practice concerning accommodation of transgender prisoners in Scotland. However, the role of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been little discussed in this context. Accordingly, this post first addresses the general c
The immigration rules relating to the EU Settlement Scheme are so poorly drafted that they may "lack the clarity of law", a judge in the Upper Tribunal has said. The comments were made in a case in which the Home Secretary appealed a decision of the First-tier Tribunal, which had found in favour of
Macdonald Henderson has advised electric heating specialist The Electric Heating Company (EHC) on a £3.8m investment by Foresight Group, with plans to launch a range of air source heat pumps to encourage people to decarbonise their homes.
The Law Society has wished First Minister Nicola Sturgeon well and thanked her "for her service". Ms Sturgeon, a former solicitor and member of the Law Society, took up her post in 2014, following the independence referendum.
A Lord Ordinary has absolved the operators of a leisure centre in Perth of any liability arising from alleged sexual abuse committed by one of its former employees against two brothers in the 1980s. Pursuers C and S alleged that first defender Norman Shaw, formerly an employee of Live Active Leisure
