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Burges Salmon has advised LIND Limited, a pioneer in alternative battery storage systems, on the £900,000 seed investment it secured from Green Angel Ventures, Scottish Enterprise and the University of Strathclyde. The funding will help drive LIND’s innovation efforts and support the com

Miller Samuel Hill Brown has announced the promotion of Ruth Medlock to senior solicitor in the employment team. Ms Medlock holds an LLB from the University of Strathclyde, which she completed in June 2018. Following this, she undertook the diploma in professional legal practice at the University of

Irish legal academic Professor Laurent Pech considers the future of the rule of law in the EU. The history of the rule of law in EU law has been one of gradual process of formal Treaty enshrinement followed by the swift development of the EU’s “rule of law toolbox” in response to u

A sheriff has ruled that a shop worker who attempted to sue his employer for right ear deafness he claimed was sustained when a ball was thrown at him by a colleague had not acted unreasonably in bringing a personal injury action and thus was not liable for expenses under the Qualified One-Way Cost

Protecting and enhancing nature and improving animal welfare are the key aims of proposed changes to deer management legislation. It is estimated there are around one million wild deer in Scotland, up from around 500,000 in 1990. This "extremely high population" means that management is required to

The joint fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of Leo Lamont, Ellie McCormick, and Mira-belle Bosch has commenced at Glasgow Sheriff Court. The purpose of an FAI includes determining the cause of death, the circumstances in which the death occurred, and to establish what reasonable precautions cou

Alastair Shepherd has been named as the new custodian of the Scottish Barony Register, succeeding Alistair Rennie. Mr Shepherd is currently a partner in Coulters Legal LLP, but is due to retire from private practice in April 2021, after 40 years as a solicitor, with Brodies, Henderson and Jackson WS

Judicial factors have been around for hundreds of years – but the most recent act was passed in 1889. Now over 130 years later, the Scottish Parliament will consider a bill aimed at bringing this area of law up to date, modernising and clarifying how it works.

The Scottish Barony Register (SBR) is "not well enough known" in the legal profession, according to its custodian. The SBR is a non-statutory register established by members of the legal profession in Scotland following the passing of the Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 2000. On 28 November 2004 feudal

Australia has made it a criminal offence to perform a Nazi salute or publicly display Nazi hate symbols, punishable with up to a year's imprisonment. The Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Act 2023, which came into force yesterday, also criminalises

A man who tried to escape justice after killing a relative has been jailed for six years and four months. Dean Ferguson, 30, was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow after pleading guilty to the culpable homicide of a man described as a childhood friend and his second cousin.

First Minister Humza Yousaf has endorsed calls for the mass exoneration of victims of the Horizon scandal. More than 700 sub-postmasters in the UK were falsely prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 based on information from the Post Office's faulty computer system, Horizon. A glitch meant that thousands

A couple who speak French as their first language have been trapped in a Kafkaesque struggle to prove their language ability to French authorities. Vincent and Martine Lenoir, from the French-speaking Wallonia region of Belgium, spoke to CNN about their difficulties in securing French citizenship de

Stuart Munro, who acted for Susan Sinclair, the first subpostmaster in Scotland whose conviction was overturned on appeal, writes on the scandal that has caught the public's attention. The broadcast of a major new drama on ITV, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, has brought the Post Office Horizon scandal