Plastic clog manufacturer Crocs has lost a legal battle to protect its design from being copied. Judges in Luxembourg endorsed a decision of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) made in 2016 to cancel legal protections enjoyed by the company.
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Russian authorities are systematically violating the rights of political activists through arbitrary arrests and detentions in a fierce crackdown ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday, Amnesty International said today. Using a law on public assemblies, authorities have deliberately targeted
Facebook has been blocked from using British citizens’ WhatsApp data outwith the app itself. The tech giant announced in 2016 that it planned to use data from the chat app to show more relevant adverts and provide better friend suggestions to users within Facebook.
The law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak is to close down. Mossack Fonseca, 11.5 million of whose files were leaked during the investigation into offshore finances, will close its remaining offices by the end of this month, according to a statement obtained by the the International Conso
The Scottish Parliament is expected to repeal the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act this afternoon – in what would be a legislative first for Holyrood. All four opposition parties back Labour MSP James Kelly’s bill to scrap the act, which has been dogged by controversy.
The Scottish government has launched a consultation on changed needed to the rules on alcohol licence applications as well as objections and hearings. The Licensing (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 came into force on 1st February 2008. They provide for various procedural matters under the Lic
It is unlikely any creditors of Hamilton Burns will receive money owed to them following the collapse of the law firm last year, administrators have said. The firm’s former staff were owed a total of £25,000 in unpaid wages and holiday pay while the HMRC was owed £210,000.
Profits at Drummond Miller before members’ remuneration and profit shares have dropped from £1.2 million to £504,284. The average members remuneration at the firm slipped to £43,023, from £98,259 the previous year – a decline of 57 per cent.
A claim worth millions of pounds against a Glasgow law firm linked to a collapsed hedge fund has been abandoned. Paul Duffy, a liquidator with Ernst & Young, had brought a claim against Professor Peter Watson and Levy & McRae after the collapse of Heather Capital and allegations that £90 mi
Work has begun on Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness due to be completed late 2019.
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee has launched a call for evidence as part of its Stage 1 consideration of the Prescription (Scotland) Bill. The bill implements the legislative recommendations contained in the Scottish Law Commission’s Report on Prescription published in July 2017.
The UK government is facing calls from opposition MPs to allow the backdated publication of Northern Ireland political donations from January 2014. Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Smith has alleged that the government is "doing the DUP's dirty work" by moving the date of publication from 2014
Strathclyde University academics Professor Aileen McHarg and Dr Christopher McCorkindale have backed the Scottish government over the competence of the EU Continuity Bill after submitting evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Constitution Committee which said they “consider that the Continuity B
