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The UK government has initiated a public consultation to develop a new tax mechanism aimed at providing a predictable fiscal response to future oil and gas price shocks, writes Jake Landman. The consultation is part of the government’s broader strategy regarding the future of the North Sea. It

Greenpeace has been ordered to pay $660 million in damages to an oil and gas company following US legal proceedings that the environmental group has described as a "meritless SLAPP". Texas-based company Energy Transfer accused Greenpeace of defamation and orchestrating criminal behaviour in relation

Amber Ockenden from the Intellectual Property Office takes a look at the law surrounding everyone's favourite brick. LEGO was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932 and, remarkably, the family still owns the company. The name LEGO comes from two Danish words, “leg” and “godt&rdqu

A French denier of the Holocaust who had been on the run for two years in Scotland has been jailed. Vincent Reynouard, 56, was arrested in Anstruther, in Fife in November 2022 before being extradited to France, where he has now been convicted.

The Scottish Sentencing Council has published a new literature review examining the sentencing of firearms offences in Scotland. The review commissioned by the council was conducted by expert academics from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, alongside researchers from the Sentencing Academy.

Professor Andrew Steven explains how the Clark Foundation for Legal Education has enabled more than 100 students to attend an enlightening summer school on the Continent. In 2004, I was invited to lecture on Scots law at the European Private Law Summer School at Salzburg in Austria. The Summer Schoo

The slightly weary thought on seeing another new book on Mary Queen of Scots has already been suggested in Scottish Legal News. Deciding whether there are too many books on this particular Queen must depend of course on what the latest author has to say, given the very many others in or out of print

Protestors charged with non-violent offences should be able to explain their motives in court as part of their legal defence, new research argues. A new study from the University of Birmingham, Aston University and Keele University has argued that trials should "respect the integrity of publicly acc

The Faculty of Advocates has joined international condemnation of the Trump administration's attacks on lawyers in the US and internationally. A joint statement issued this week says US sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) personnel and their families "constitute a violation of internatio

A sheriff has granted summary decree for payment of a loan granted by a company director to a homebuyer after finding that nothing in the agreement prevented the company, which was used as a vehicle for the loan, from demanding payment without the consent of the director. New House Purchasers Ltd so

Public bodies should collect distinct data on both sex and gender identity to ensure accuracy and clarity of nationally held data, according to a UK government-commissioned report led by a UCL academic. In February 2024, Professor Alice Sullivan (UCL Social Research Institute) was asked by the Depar

A former subpostmaster caught in the Horizon scandal is taking legal action against the Post Office and Fujitsu. Lee Castleton is the first person to sue both organisations following the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history.

The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) has launched the first phase of an interactive map that shows the number of complaints closed in 2022–23 for each local authority area in Scotland across the sectors it oversees, mapped against measures of deprivation. The map highlights the percen