The President, Deputy President and three new justices were sworn into the UK Supreme Court this week, marking the beginning of the new legal year: Lady Hale of Richmond as President; Lord Mance as Deputy President; Lady Black of Derwent as Justice; Lord Lloyd-Jones as Justice and Lord Briggs of We
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A cemetery worker who admitted to illegally selling burial plots has been jailed for 16 months. Forty-five-year-old William Henderson pled guilty to a single charge of running a fraudulent scheme, which affected 13 bereaved families, at the Mount Vernon cemetery in Edinburgh.
A student at Dundee Law School has been awarded the Ken Scott Bursary by Blackadders.
Law firms may face retrospective VAT bills, accountants have warned. Following the recent case of Brabners LLP and HMRC, Brabners have been ordered to pay £68,000 in VAT as HMRC claimed that electronic property searches should not have been treated as disbursements for VAT purposes. Accountancy fir
The Law Society of Scotland has welcomed the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service's (SCTS) report on transforming the way that children and vulnerable witnesses give evidence in court. Ian Cruickshank, convener of the Law Society of Scotland’s Criminal Law Committee, said: “We welcome today’s
The annual Red Mass to mark the beginning of the new legal year in Scotland takes place on Sunday 1 October at St Mary's RC Church on Broughton Street in Edinburgh at 12 noon. The Mass will be presided over by the Pope's new Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop John Adams, the Papal Nuncio.
The Civil Aviation Authority, the UK's aviation regulator, has launched enforcement action against Irish airline Ryanair for "persistently misleading" passengers regarding their rights. The regulator wrote to Ryanair earlier this month in the wake of its decision to cancel thousands of flights, urgi
A police inspector who was jailed for fraud has been told he will have to repay more than £100 thousand. David Brown admitted using the names of family members, businesses and strangers to create false insurance policies and then claiming £92,000 commission.
A former state judge twice suspended from office who believes “God’s law” can invalidate decisions of federal courts has won Alabama’s Republican Senate primary, The Washington Post reports. Roy Moore defeated the incumbent, Senator Luther Strange, with 55 per cent of the vote.
A ceremony next week will see new three new justices sworn in at the Supreme Court as Lady Hale becomes the UK's most senior judge. The swearings-in of Baroness Hale of Richmond as President, Lord Mance as Deputy President, and Lady Black of Derwent, Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lord Briggs of Westbourne as
Thirty new legal members and 19 ordinary members have been appointed by the Scottish ministers to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland and assigned to the Housing and Property Chamber by the President of Scottish Tribunals, Lady Smith. The announcement follows a recruitment round by the Judicial App
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (Appellant) v Comic Enterprises Ltd (Respondent) The respondent operates a number of live entertainment venues in the UK used primarily for stand-up comedy, but also live and recorded music and nightclub and cabaret entertainment. It owns a UK-registered trade
Property organisations are among those facing the fallout from the collapse of Pagan Osborne, The Herald reports. Joint administrators of the firm Tom MacLennan and Iain Fraser of FRP Advisory said Pagans had 53 creditors who were owed about £185,000 in total when it collapsed.
September and October are great months for getting round Faculties. CPD deadlines loom and there is usually still some decent golfing weather left (though not this year), so a few trips away are no chore at all. Banff has been a staple for, I think the last nine years now. Banff Springs Hotel is the
Greater effort is required to prevent criminals and fraudsters cheating the public purse, a Holyrood committee has said. In a report published today, the Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee sets out key recommendations to improve the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) in Scotland follo
