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Blackadders LLP has announced new board appointments to serve alongside newly elected joint managing partners Emma Gray and Ryan McKay.

Pop star Taylor Swift has appealed against a judge's ruling permitting a trial over claims she plagiarised lyrics for her hit song Shake It Off. Swift's lawyers argued the judgment was “unprecedented” and said that the case was based on phrases that are commonly used.

Retired Irish barrister Bill Shipsey, a former chair of Amnesty International Ireland, pens an open letter to former senator Lord Glennie over his controversial role on the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) courts. Dear Angus Glennie,

The resignation of a senior New Zealand judge from the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) Courts has piled more pressure on former senator Lord Glennie over his role on the controversial courts. Sir William Young, a former judge of the New Zealand Supreme Court who is well known for leading a

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has rejected a case by a company that bought a house on the island of Sanday in the Orkney Islands alleging abusive practices by the former directors of a local haulage firm in conjunction with the local council and its wholly owned ferry subsidiary. Blue Planet Holdi

A 32-year-old Fife farmer has been fined £2,000 after deliberately damaging a badger sett. Peter Brown was sentenced at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court after being found guilty of two breaches of the Protection of Badgers Act in Leslie, Glenrothes.

A memorial in a church dedicated to an 18th century slave owner who was "instrumental in quelling" a slave uprising in Jamaica has been deemed racist and offensive and should be removed. The Consistory Court of the Diocese of Salisbury has granted a faculty permitting the removal of the memorial to

Financial watchdogs should not enjoy immunity from civil suits in cases in which consumers lose out because of a regulator's negligence, MPs have said. An amendment to the Financial Services and Markets Bill has been laid before Parliament by three SNP MPs and will be debated today.

A UK subsidiary of the mining company Glencore has been told to pay more than £275 million after it bribed officials in African countries in order to access oil. The company paid $26m (£23m) through agents to officials of crude oil firms in Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast between 2011

The case of two fans of actress Ana de Armas who are suing a film studio for removing her from the film Yesterday has reached the next stage. Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza accused Universal Studios of false representation and fraud at the beginning of this year after they paid $3.99 to rent t

A Glasgow sheriff has dismissed an action by a television production company that sought over £1 million in potential lost profits arising from a TV channel’s decision to cancel a sports magazine show that it produced for it. PLZ Soccer Ltd, which produced 19 episodes of a programme titl

One of Britain’s leading legal figures will discuss how political and social upheaval is influencing human rights law at an event hosted at the University of Dundee. Judge Tim Eicke KC, the UK’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, will explain how the court is seek

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has refused an appeal by the assignee of a company that supplied halal chicken meat to restaurants against the dismissal of its claim that a former director had misappropriated money from the company. Manolete Partners Plc, the liquidator of claims against de

The SNP's treasurer Colin Beattie, the MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, has been arrested in connection with a police investigation into the party's funding and finances. In a statement issued this morning, Police Scotland said: "The man is in custody and is being questioned by Police Scotl

Three secondary schools will next month go head-to-head in the final of a public speaking contest. Pupils from The Royal High School, Edinburgh; Shawlands Academy, Glasgow; and St Peter the Apostle, Clydebank, will battle it out for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) national sch