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Merger talks between Maclay Murray and Spens (MMS) and Addleshaw Goddard have broken down. It was reported the firms were in merger talks in November but neither firm had gotten to the stage of a partnership vote.

(L-R): Back row: Keith Graham (tax assistant formerly of Neil Ross & Company); Sean Cockburn (tax director of Murray Beith Murray); Neil Ross (tax consultant formerly of Neil Ross & Company); front: Hugh Younger Murray Beith Murray has announced the acquisition of Neil Ross & Company.

Holyrood’s Justice Committee is conducting “post-legislative scrutiny” of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006. The committee describes it as one of the most important pieces of legislation on family law in recent years. The committee invited a number of organisations – including the Law Socie

A pub in Glasgow has become the first in Scotland to be handed a court penalty for showing English football matches via unauthorised foreign broadcasts. The Merchants Quay Bar was hit with the £6,000 fine as Premier Leagueofficials crackdown on copyright infringement.

Steven Jansch The insolvency regime seems to be in a perpetual state of flux, writes Steven Jansch.

Lawyers have been praised for helping to get a landmark human rights case into court by working on it without charge. Although legal aid was in due course granted for the judicial review action in the Court of Session, much preparatory work was carried out for free by senior and junior counsel and s

Dr Andrew McGettrick The Edinburgh based European patent attorney firm of Alistair Hindle Associates has announced that Dr Andrew McGettrick has been appointed as a director of the company.

The London Centre of International Law Practice (LCILP) is hosting a conference to address the challenges in the Middle East and Africa marked by political instability and a drop in oil prices. The main themes include:

Professor Roddy Paisley Professor Roddy Paisley, chair of Scots law at the University of Aberdeen – best known for his work on the law of servitudes and property law – has written a novel entitled Ballycarson Blues.

Louise Sloan The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) has today announced the appointment of its sixth student director – Louise Sloan.

A Colorado man suspected of drink driving told police he was the king of Scotland and claimed diplomatic immunity after being caught. Nicholas Baron James, 35, was arrested in the city of Longmont after he refused a blood test, asserting that his blood was “golden”, according to reports.

In a potentially landmark ruling, the English High Court has given judicial approval to the use of predictive coding in disclosure for High Court cases. Edward Spencer, an associate at Taylor Wessing, told the court that the deployment of predictive coding during disclosure would achieve significant

A group of fruit and vegetable growers from Angus are entitled to reparation for the “loss and damage” incurred as a result of the withdrawal of recognition of their producer association for an EU financial aid scheme, a Court of Session judge has ruled. Lord Tyre held that producer organisation

The Supreme Court has ruled a company’s VAT repayments, made after it overpaid VAT, are liable to corporation tax. The appellant, Shop Direct Group (SDG), is a company in the Littlewoods corporate group (the Group).

Female prisoners in Europe’s busiest court are held in “degrading and inhumane” conditions, the chief prison inspector has reported. David Strang, HM chief inspector of prisons, said holding cells in Glasgow Sheriff Court failed to “reflect positively on a 21st-century criminal justice syste