Private residential landlords would be wise to take notice of Scotland’s first wrongful termination order. It establishes the fact that the law has teeth and can bite, writes Paul Harper. It is a ruling which underpins the fact that it could prove costly to evict tenants under false pretences
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Agricultural tenants could benefit from additional protections in the aftermath of the Holyrood elections, writes Hamish Lean. With the Scottish Parliamentary elections looming, Fergus Ewing has been sketching out changes that the SNP are considering to agricultural tenancy legislation if they remai
A non-binary barrister is thought to be the first whose name appears on a chambers' board with the title 'Mx', The Times reports. Oscar Davies, 26, who is biologically male, identifies as non-binary and prefers to be referred to with pronouns whose lexeme is 'they', but is also content with 'he'.
Simon Allison discusses employment law issues – but through the medium of Line of Duty. So, at the end of season five of the BBC’s Line of Duty, what have we learned?
Gillespie Macandrew has begun a three-year charity partnership with Alzheimer Scotland and Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity (ECHC). Alzheimer Scotland provides support for those living with dementia and the ECHC supports children and their families in a variety of healthcare settings. The
A renewed attack on trial by jury in Scotland has been met with scorn from lawyers. A "cross-justice" group led by the Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, has proposed a pilot of juryless rape trials in what represents the latest attempt to remove juries from sexual offences cases.
As you noted on 12 March, a sheriff in Dumbarton had said that a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a seaman had been hampered by a decade of delay on the part of the Crown. What is particularly worrying is that in a newspaper report there is mention of another case in which there was also a 1
Once again serious shortcomings in Scotland's fatal accident inquiry (FAI) system have been highlighted with the release of FAI findings just days before the tenth anniversary of the tragedy concerned. Seaman Boguslaw Kopec died on 13 March 2011 following an accident aboard the Forth Guardsman, sout
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has welcomed the passing of the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act at Holyrood. The legislation creates a new independent body, Redress Scotland, to administer a scheme making financial payments to survivors of historical child
Early adopters of sustainable practices, including retrofit programmes, may be better placed to reap future benefits, writes Sheelagh Cooley. In the year that Glasgow hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), UK law firm Shoosmiths joined over 120 other UK businesses committing to
The UK government has ordered a review of the exemption of domestic workers from minimum wage legislation following an Employment Tribunal ruling. A tribunal ruled in December that the exemption is discriminatory against women, who are far more likely to be employed as live-in domestic workers than
The president of the Law Society of England and Wales is stepping aside less than halfway through his one-year term due to the re-emergence of allegations of misconduct, which he denies. The High Court in London ruled that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) was wrong to dismiss a complaint b
Press freedom organisation Reporters without Borders (RSF) has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and other Saudi officials, alleging crimes against humanity. The complaint details systematic persecution of journalists in Saudi Arabia, in pa
An appeal by the executors of a late farmer’s estate against a sheriff’s decision that a right of pre-emption in the feu disposition of his farm had survived the abolition of feudal tenure has been refused by the Civil Division of the Sheriff Appeal Court. Turcan Connell (Trustees)
DWF partner Iain McLean and his family have raised more than £100,000 for The Duncan McLean Fund, established in memory of his son, who lost his life to a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) brain tumour in February 2016 – aged just 20. Gullane-based Mr McLean set himself the hu
