A Florida church has lost its tax-exempt status after it was found to be hosting nude paint events and pyjama-clad slumber parties with the "sexiest ladies". Local council property appraiser Dan Sowell said Panama City Beach's Life Center: A Spiritual Community has lost its tax-exempt status after a
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Nearly two-thirds of entrants to the legal profession in Scotland are women, according to statistics produced by the Law Society of Scotland. The Law Society’s report on traineeship figures reported in Scottish Legal News yesterday indicate that in 2013-14, 502 trainees were admitted. Of these 202
Paul Motion Paul Motion considers the new law on unjustified threats in relation to intellectual property actions.
CMS is in a period of "organic growth" in Scotland, one year on from the successful acquisition of Dundas & Wilson. Stephen Millar, one of the firm's two executive partners in Scotland, said the legal sector in Scotland is in a "more healthy" position because of ongoing consolidation and hailed
Brexit is threatening the Sewel convention "almost to destruction", according to one academic. Writing in The Herald today, Aileen McHarg, professor of public law at Strathclyde University, said that the UK government had not explained its breach of the Sewel convention in the Commons last week &nda
Holyrood’s Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee today approved legislation that bans the use of plastic microbeads in personal care products in Scotland. Microbeads, which can be found in face scrubs, toothpastes and shower gels, can pass through sewage systems and reach seas
The European Court of Human Rights elected Vincent A. De Gaetano (Malta) as a new section president this week. He has been elected for a two-year term and will take up his duties on 1 September 2018.
Millar & Bryce, Scotland’s leading land and property search firm, has launched Financial Asset Search (FAS), to support legal professionals and executors during the executry administration process. Recognising the complex and time-consuming measures practitioners undertake during the admin
Mackinnon Advocates Glasgow, in conjunction with the Falkirk Faculty, host their fifth CPD event of 2018 on Thursday 28th June in Falkirk. The seminar will be provided by two of our highly experienced Criminal Law Advocates:
Scotland's biggest council has agreed to pay compensation to the family of a boy who died after a headstone fell on him. Ciaran Williamson, 8, was playing in Craigton Cemetery with friends when the incident occurred on 26 May 2015.
Macdonald Henderson has advised Viking Mead Ltd on its acquisition of the UK’s northernmost brewery, Valhalla Brewery, situated on the isle of Unst, Shetland. Founder, Sonny Priest, has sold the business after 20 years of producing local ale.
The majority of solicitors are now women, according to new figures. A four per cent increase the number of women qualifying in 2017 meant women outnumbered men for the first time in the profession.
Holyrood’s Finance and Constitution Committee has begun the next phase of its constitutional scrutiny with a call for evidence on common UK frameworks. The move signals the start of preparatory work by the committee ahead of new legal and policy frameworks being established post-Brexit across
Scottish property prices are rising at their fastest rate in three years and have soared to record levels in two parts of the country. The average price of a home rose to £166,075 during the first quarter of the year – up almost £11,000 on the same time last year, according to inde
A Holyrood committee has recommended that the general principles of the Prescription (Scotland) Bill be agreed to when it reaches its stage 1 debate in Parliament later this month. While the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee welcomes the "greater clarity" the bill provides for users of the l
