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Lord Neuberger Human rights have been a “new toy” for lawyers which they have favoured over the common law, the President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger has said.

Partner Nicola Gray and senior partner Keith MacRae

The New York Supreme Court, in a case unrelated to White House shenanigans, will sit today to rule on whether chimpanzees deserve to be accorded the rights of "personhood". Two chimpanzees, Tommy and Kiko, are to be represented by the Nonhuman Rights Project in the appellate division of the court, w

David Strang An inmate at one Scottish prison lived in a tent for eight weeks after his release and deliberately reoffended in the hopes of being caught and imprisoned again so he would have “ a dry bed, warmth and shelter”, a new report states.

Margaret Meehan

A punter who placed a £100 bet at odds of 2500/1 for “Rangers to be relegated” from the Scottish Premier League has had his £250,000 claim against the bookmakers rejected after the company refused to pay out. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the simple, natural and ordinary meaning o

Karolina Szumko A woman has been spared jail for a racist attack on a bouncer because a judge said she was “a lady”, The Times reports.

Jennifer Young Ledingham Chalmers has announced seven promotions across its Inverness, Aberdeen and Stirling offices.

George Frier Shepherd and Wedderburn has acted for AIM listed Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group in arranging a five-year revolving credit facility with HSBC Bank plc. Almost contemporaneously, it acted for the company in its latest acquisitions in Australia and Norway.

Pictured (L-R): Susan McManus, HR adviser, SCTS ; Geoff Kitchener, customer relationship manager, Centrica; Elena Poulos, chair Carer Contact Group, SCTS; Sarah Jackson, OBE, CEO Working Families

Carol Brennan The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission’s Consumer Panel has set out its vision of how the internationally recognised principles for consumer protection should apply to legal services to mark International Consumer Rights Day.

Police officers in a small town have started fetching McDonald's meals for inmates after their station's catering contract fell through. Those being held in the police station jail have been offered a choice of a hamburger, a cheeseburger or a veggie burger from a McDonald's outlet across the street

A 40-year-old case on the effect of arrestment of a company’s property following the appointment of a receiver was “wrongly decided”, a five-judge bench has ruled. The Inner House of the Court of Session held that the court in the 1977 case Lord Advocate v Royal Bank of Scotland, which ruled t

A telephone subscriber’s consent to the publication of his data also covers its use in another member state, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. The highly harmonised regulatory framework makes it possible to ensure throughout the EU the same respect for requirements relating to

Catherine Greig MacRoberts’ associate Catherine Greig summarises yesterday’s "burka ban" case at Luxembourg.