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Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has today warned that Police Scotland must be transformed into a 21st century police force after new figures revealed that recorded cyber-crime doubled in the past twelve months. In 2020-21, an estimated 14,130 cyber-crimes were record
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Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) has appointed three built environment leaders to its board. Ainslie McLaughlin, Michaela Sullivan and Karyn Watt have joined the governance board to help drive innovation across Scotland’s built environment and support the sector’s sustainab
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Jonnie Hall, NFU’s Director of Policy, will deliver the keynote session entitled ‘The transition to a new agricultural policy for Scotland beyond the CAP’ at CLT Scotland’s Rural Law Conference taking place online on 27 October. Chaired by Hamish Lean of Shepherd & W
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The SLLG Committee and Advocates Library are hosting an event which will be of great interest to law librarians, legal professionals, law students and anyone with an interest in professional legal research. On the occasion of the bicentenary of Session Cases, Lord Ericht will give a seminar presenta
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Our heroic projects that are aimed at destroying evil have the paradoxical effect of bringing more evil into the world. Human conflicts are life and death struggles—my gods against your gods, my immortality project against your immortality project. The root of humanly caused evil is not man&r
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A vicar has defended a decision to host a four-day beer festival in a church graveyard – where revellers sat on headstones and used graves as tables. Reverend Martin Anderson, who organised the festival at St Mary the Virgin church in Stockton-on-Tees in north-east England, said most people "h
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Lawyers in Glasgow have boycotted today's holiday custody court. Last year, the Lord President, Lord Carloway, confirmed that such courts would be convened on court holidays. The defence profession, however, was not consulted nor was it offered additional remuneration, in contrast to prosecutors and
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Colin Miller discusses the recent crackdown on pharma companies for breaching competition law. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK competition watchdog, has recently issued record fines against a number of pharma companies for breaching competition law.
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The Scotsman has published an obituary for Kathleen HS Preston, who has passed away on 29 June at the age of 69. "Kathleen Helen Simpson Hay was born on 1 September, 1951 in Aberdeen to Archie and Molly Hay. She excelled at school, and when she left Aberdeen High School for Girls in 1969 she did so
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Proposed legislation to introduce a licensing scheme for Airbnb-style and short-term let properties is to be examined by a Holyrood committee. Under the Scottish government's plans, councils will have until October 2022 to set up a licensing scheme, with all short-term lets licensed by April 2024.
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The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined accountancy firm Grant Thornton more than £2.3 million for failings and a "serious lack of competence" in its audits of restaurant chain Patisserie Valerie. Patisserie Valerie collapsed in January 2019 as allegations of fraud encompassed the comp
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Adam Swayne looks at how to will cryptocurrency. Every year, millions of pounds worth of cryptocurrency are lost forever because the owners of the currency failed to put a plan in place to leave it to loved ones. A 2020 study by the Cremation Institute indicated that 89 per cent of cryptocurrency ow
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Abortion will be legalised in San Marino after more than three-quarters of voters in the small European republic backed the move in a referendum yesterday. At least 95 per cent of people living in San Marino, one of Europe's oldest sovereign states, profess the Catholic faith and around half of thos
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The next generation of legal experts are preparing to advance their careers as the University of Dundee hosts an industry recruitment event. Prospective employers from some of the UK’s leading legal firms will meet with hundreds of students and graduates at this year’s Legal Recruitment
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Newly qualified solicitors at Linklaters will receive salaries of just over £107,000 as the magic circle firm raises the stakes in the ongoing pay war amongst law firms in the City. The firm confirmed it will pay NQs £107,500 – a 7.5 per cent rise at the firm and £500 more th
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