Jaime Carey has become the first Chilean lawyer to serve as president of the International Bar Association (IBA). Mr Carey, senior partner of Carey, Chile's largest law firm, succeeded Spain's Almudena Arpón de Mendívil y Aldama at the start of the year.
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Dr Rozemarijn Roland Holst has been awarded over £128,000 by the Leverhulme Trust for a three-year project entitled ‘The Making and Unmaking of Global Commons by International Organisations’. Global commons, areas outside national jurisdiction of states such as the high seas, Antar
David J Black finds that money and sanctimony make for a heady cocktail as the plot of his bookish inquiry thickens. See part two here. Sally Rooney really should know that Waterstones’ US parent, private equity fund Elliott Advisors, is part of corporate giant Elliott Investment Manageme
Thorntons has advised on a community buyout that will safeguard the future of a Cairngorms visitor attraction and help boost the local economy.
In the first of our occasional series highlighting Scotland’s legal treasures, we examine a charter in the keeping of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow which is a remarkably early example of a woman asserting her rights.
A sheriff has concluded that the death of a soldier who died after his sniper rifle discharged at his head while he was holding it could have been avoided if normal procedures for the unloading of rifles had been carried out following a shooting drill earlier that day, however no defects in any syst
The Law Society of Scotland has offered congratulations to Lord Pentland who will succeed Lord Carloway as lord president next month. Law Society of Scotland president Susan Murray said: “On behalf of the Law Society of Scotland and the solicitor profession which it represents, I offer my sinc
It would not be in the public interest to prosecute people in possession of illegal drugs at a healthcare facility in Glasgow, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has said. Her comments come after a request for clarification on the law by the Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership and a facility
The public must surely wish to have a comprehensive narrative of the course of conduct by a medically qualified person resulting in the deaths of many babies, and they have it with this book. The shock of the whole scenario is not of a fanciful or unique set of circumstances, regrettably, as similar
Ryanair has filed civil proceedings seeking €15,000 in damages from a passenger who allegedly disrupted a flight from Dublin to Lanzarote. The airline said it filed the claim in the Irish Circuit Court to recover costs incurred after the flight on 9 April 2024 was forced to divert to Porto, whe
Two lynx illegally released into the Scottish Highlands in an apparent bid to reintroduce the big cats to the region, hundreds of years after they were driven to extinction, have been captured.
Criminal penalties for the possession, supply and production of ketamine are set to be increased in the UK following a government decision. Ketamine is currently controlled as a Class B substance under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, putting it on par with cannabis and amphetamines.
