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An accountant has lost a £700,000 court claim against developers after refusing to complete the purchase of a £1.5 million flat in south London's Aykon London One tower, nicknamed the 'Versace Tower' for its fashion house-designed interiors. Mi Suk Park, 54, paid a £381,000 deposit

A couple who leased a property in Renfrewshire who argued that their landlords had breached the Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011 by transferring their deposit from one approved scheme to another without telling them have lost an appeal to the Upper Tribunal against a decision that

A legislature has passed a bill dubbed by its detractors as the “Let Politicians Lie Act". The Missouri Legislature passed Senate Bill 22, which allows politicians to rewrite ballot summary language up to three times, even after courts have ruled it unlawful.

BTO Solicitors LLP has selected The House of Hope as its charity of the year. Set to open later in 2025, The House of Hope will be Scotland’s first permanent, bespoke community-based wellbeing centre dedicated to supporting anyone impacted by breast cancer. 

Levy & McRae has announced the appointment of Malcolm Cannon as its new COO. Mr Cannon joins the firm with a wealth of experience in both industry and in the legal sector.

Experienced commercial and banking lawyer Jamie Apted has joined Aberdein Considine as a partner. Mr Apted, who will be based in the firm’s Caddell House offices on Glasgow’s Waterloo Street, joins from the London Metal Exchange, having previously worked at the Financial Ombudsman Servic

A woman with hydrocephalus and spina bifida who had her level of care reassessed after moving to a new local authority area has lost a judicial review challenge against the approach taken by her new Council in assessing her required level of care after a lord ordinary ruled the authority had not act

There are five Scottish Legal Walks 2025 planned for this autumn in support of access to justice and local legal advice charities. Four have been confirmed so far:

A former nurse who stalked and terrified a woman after matching with her on a dating app has been jailed again – this time for breaching a non-harassment order. Adele Rennie, 34, from Kilmarnock, pled guilty at the town’s Sheriff Court yesterday. She admitted contacting a woman she had p

The Scottish government is to amend its guidance on the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 after its defeat in the Supreme Court last week. Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said that the Scottish government was looking at updating its guidance on single-sex sp

The University of Glasgow hosted the Brown-Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (BMICCC) earlier this month.

Green MSP Maggie Chapman has refused to resign from a Holyrood committee following a backlash to her remarks about the Supreme Court in the wake of its ruling on gender and the Equality Act. Speaking in Aberdeen at the weekend she referred to the "bigotry, prejudice and hatred that we see coming fro

On 16 April 2025, the UK's Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the terms "woman," "man," and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex at birth. This landmark judgment provides clarity on a contentious legal issue, but also creates practical considerations for organisations seeking to