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With the UK government’s consultation on mandating major companies and financial services firms to develop and implement climate transition plans now closed, the spotlight is turning not just on corporate strategy, but on their legal responsibilities. By 2023, more than 70 per cent of FTSE 100

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has allowed an appeal against a decision that a company that contracted for the purchase of millions of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic was due to pay $16 million to the seller after finding that the High Court judge had decided the case on grounds no

The Crown Office is to re-examine the death of a student who took his own life after a grading error at the University of Glasgow. Ethan Brown, 24, died in December 2024 on the day he was due to graduate.

A motorist who swore he was holding a chocolate bar and not a mobile phone when he was pulled over has been given the benefit of the doubt by a judge. Daniel Fahy, 30, told Gort District Court in Co Galway, Ireland, that he was eating a Mars bar while making a handsfree phone call during the dispute

Every primary three pupil in Nairnshire has been kitted out in club colours thanks to a former Nairn resident who now heads up a real estate firm. Marking 50 years since its 1976 Highland League triumph, Nairn County Football Club recently provided pupils from Auldearn, Ardersier, Cawdor, Croy, Mill

Burness Paull has appointed Tom Usher as a senior advisor. Mr Usher was most recently a partner with Macfarlanes in London.

Footage showing an enormous fire engulfing the home of a senior US judge has gone viral on social media, amid fears the blaze could have been caused by a politically-motivated arson attack. Investigators are still working to establish the cause of the devastating fire at the home of South Carolina S

To celebrate its 150th birthday, Dallas McMillan Solicitors ran a charity fundraising campaign which concluded with a ball on 29 August.

Extreme H, the hydrogen motorsport series, has announced Shoosmiths as its official legal services provider. The partnership will see Shoosmiths support Extreme H as it launches a new era for global motorsport. The firm has been advising Extreme E since its inception in 2019 when it launched the wor

A senior leader of a Sudanese militia has been convicted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the early 2000s. The conviction of Janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is the first conviction in the situation in Darfur, Sudan, a

The introduction of the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill has been welcomed by the Economy and Fair Work committee. The bill would place a duty on all local authorities to work with public bodies to adopt a community wealth building (CWB) partnership approach. According to the bill, this wou

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has bolstered its team with 12 new hires. Four senior associates and a further eight new faces have joined the firm, which recently combined with Davidson Chalmers Stewart.

Terra Firma Chambers in conjunction with SOLAR hosted a Common Good Conference at The Mackenzie Building, Edinburgh on 29 September.  The event was chaired by Terra Firma’s stable director, Alasdair Burnet KC, and featured talks by fellow TFC members Mark Lazarowicz, Francesca Glendinning

A sheriff has granted an application by a single woman in her late forties to adopt a four-year-old child and dispensed with the consent of her parents after determining that they would be unable to satisfactorily discharge their responsibilities for the foreseeable future and the orders they propos