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There comes a time in the history of all bureaucracies when they must inevitably parody their own functions.

A medical committee's decision to refuse a kidney donation from a convicted criminal has been overturned by a court on the basis there is no such thing as a "criminal kidney". A judge in the southern Indian state of Kerala said the organ transplant authorisation committee should not have examined th

An interesting little conundrum for those with too much time on their hands. The flash floods in Edinburgh’s fashionable Stockbridge area earlier this year did significant damage to property, but thankfully, in contrast to similar events in Germany, no lives were lost. For this we may be grate

The Upper Tribunal for Scotland has refused permission for an appeal by two tenants of a tenement apartment seeking to add other proprietors of flats in the same building to their repairing standard application as additional respondents, after it was asked to reconsider its initial decision on the c

Advocates David Nicolson and Dominic Scullion have joined Compass Chambers.

WhatsApp has been slapped with a record €225 million fine by Ireland's data protection watchdog – the largest-ever GDPR fine in Ireland and the second-largest in the EU. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) originally intended to fine WhatsApp between €30 million and €50 million

MacRoberts LLP has welcomed seven former trainees as newly-qualified solicitors.

Andrew Bowen QC of Terra Firma Chambers examines the case law on reflective loss. In the Supreme Court’s seven-justice ‘root and branch’ review of the rule against reflective loss (often referred to as ‘the rule in Prudential’), the majority held that a shareholder coul

Responses to a consultation on reforming Scotland's gender recognition laws have been published by the Scottish government. A majority of organisations responding to the consultation, which ran from December 2019 to March 2020, broadly supported changing to a statutory declaration-based system, acco

A Coatbridge man who choked a police officer until he was unconscious has been jailed. John Dow attacked the constable after he and his colleague stopped to respond to a disturbance in the town’s Mitchell Street in July 2020.

DLA Piper has been appointed by the UK government as the provider of legal services for the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow this November. The firm will provide general commercial support to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) including in respect of sponsorship a

Glasgow-headquartered intellectual property company Murgitroyd has grown its Irish base with the acquisition of European patent and trade mark attorney firm Hanna Moore + Curley (HMC). Dublin-headquartered HMC, which specialises in obtaining intellectual property protection for a wide range of secto

So-called "vaccine passports" will be required to enter certain events and higher risk venues, such as nightclubs, music festivals and some football grounds under plans being put to MSPs next week. The Scottish Parliament will be asked to vote on the introduction of a Covid-19 vaccination verificati

MSPs have agreed to write to the Scottish government to take forward a formal pardon for the 4,000 people accused and executed for witchcraft. A petition lodged by Claire Mitchell QC earlier this year seeks a pardon as well as an official apology and a memorial in recognition of Scotland’s wit

Advocate Jon Kiddie of Terra Firma Chambers explores the use of the Scots language in Scots law. ‘That the Court of Session, or College of Justice, do, after the Union, and notwithstanding thereof, remain, in all time coming, within Scotland, as it is now constituted by the Laws of that Kingdo