Following the collapse of Hadden Construction and confirmation that subcontractors stand to lose around £2 million, industry advocate Yosof Ewing – founder of Adjudicate.co.uk and speaker at this year’s Scottish Construction Summit – is calling for urgent legislative reform t
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Weightmans has announced a raft of new partner appointments. As part of plans to grow the firm’s private client practice in Scotland, Donna Brennan, formerly of Blackadders, joins the team in Glasgow, specialising in complex private wealth matters, and advising on all aspects of succession pla
A judge has criticised two neighbours for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a legal dispute over "a tap and a pipe that doesn't matter".
A string of prosecutions in the UK should spur UK manufacturers to take action to meet their legal obligations to address health risks arising from dust, writes Charlotte O’Kane. In the last year, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecutions have resulted in cases in which businesses - and,
Hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales have had their personal data stolen in a cyber-attack. The Ministry of Justice today announced that hackers had "accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who applied for legal aid through our digital s
A ‘catalogue of failures’ led to the inappropriate and unacceptable use of public money at the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS), according to a new report. The report, published by the Scottish Parliament’s Public Audit Committee, follows the committee’s consider
A woman who embezzled £1.5 million from a family scrap metal business in Aberdeen has been ordered to repay almost £670,000 under proceeds of crime laws. Coleen Muirhead, 57, of Aberdeen, was jailed for three years and four months in September 2023 after she admitted a charge of embezzle
Evelyn Wallace, a senior associate at TC Young, has successfully completed the Child Centred Practice course, delivered by the Law Society of Scotland in partnership with Clan Childlaw. This specialised training is designed to enhance legal professionals’ understanding of children’s righ
An Aberdeen sheriff has granted decree for payment in an action by a trade supplier against a partnership and two of its partners but only in respect of the second partner, after finding that the action was not competent in respect of the other defenders due to the timing of when the minute seeking
An Edinburgh Law School team has won multiple prizes at the 2025 Day of Crisis Competition in the Netherlands.
The General Court of the European Union has annulled a decision by the European Commission to refuse a journalist's request for access to text messages exchanged between Ursula von der Leyen and the CEO of Pfizer. The New York Times journalist Matina Stevi submitted an application under th
The rule of law is a fundamental component of a functioning democracy that must be protected, the Law Society of Scotland has told a House of Lords inquiry. The society has provided written evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee inquiry into the rule of law, stating that it is a funda
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of YZ to the High Court of Justiciary for determination. In 2021, the applicant pled guilty on summary complaint to two charges of contravening section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003 and on a separate complaint, to a charg
TikTok has been accused by the European Commission of breaching advertising transparency rules in the Digital Services Act (DSA). Following the launch of an investigation in February 2024, the Commission last week informed TikTok of its preliminary view that its advertisement repository falls short