The Editor of the Scots Law Times was not happy in January 1947. In an early issue of his periodical he commented that statutes "descend upon us" from Westminster in "an ever-growing avalanche". Reproducing these new statutes was a part of the publication, and their quantity alone was then so large,
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Proposals to introduce a strict licensing framework for canine fertility businesses have been announced. The planned licensing scheme aims to clamp down on unethical breeding practices, regulate the services offered, ensure higher standards of care and protect animal welfare.
An Employment Tribunal sitting in Glasgow has rejected an application to strike out an employer’s response to a race discrimination claim on the basis that an English lawyer was not capable of appearing before a Scottish Tribunal. The claimant, Mr R Rohatgi, argued that his employer had acted
Public sector fraud in Scotland has risen by almost 50 per cent according to Audit Scotland. A data matching exercise, part of the UK-wide National Fraud Initiative (NFI), detected £21.5 million worth of fraud and payment errors across the Scottish public sector.
An alleged rape victim whose case was wrongly abandoned by English prosecutors after lawyers for the defence claimed she had "sexsomnia" has received £35,000 in compensation. Jade McCrossen-Nethercott launched legal action against the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with support from the Centr
Over 250,000 people have backed a European citizens' initiative that says video game publishers should be required to ensure that online games remain playable after official support is ended. The Stop Killing Games initiative follows criticism of French publisher Ubisoft, which recently shut down se
An appeal against a lord ordinary’s decision to allow a proof and grant an interim suspension of a confirmation of two brothers as co-executors dative of their father’s estate has been allowed by the Inner House of the Court of Session, but only to the extent of recalling the decision to
A rapist who sexually abused six young girls and two women over the course of 43 years has been jailed. Michael Conway was found guilty of 14 charges on June 11 following a trial at the High Court in Livingston.
Scottish charity RSABI is extending its thanks to the 135 or so competitors, and support team members, who are set to take part in this year’s Great Glen Challenge, sponsored by Gillespie Macandrew.
Ireland's Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded a record €550,000 to a former Twitter employee who was sacked after failing to click a button in an email from Elon Musk shortly after he acquired the company. Gary Rooney, former source-to-pay director at Dublin-based Twitter Internati
The Scottish Prison Service has been urged to stop routine body-searching of female inmates following an inspection of a new £85 million “therapeutic” jail. Chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, made the recommendation after an inspection of the female pri
The unconfirmed executors of a deceased company director have successfully petitioned the Court of Session to exercise its nobile officium to add them to the register of company members as to allow the company to take action to prevent insolvency. It was stipulated in the will of the late director,
A man caught with a cache of homemade “zip” guns and ammunition in his house has been jailed for five years. The haul was discovered when police, acting on intelligence, carried out a search of Salvatore Lupi’s flat in Glasgow.
The Dundee Legal Walk 2024 will take place on Wednesday 2 October. Legal walks are held all over the UK and raise money for the Access to Justice Foundation to fund free legal advice in the form of grants to advice charities working in communities that need it most.
Macdonald Henderson has advised Turnkey IPS, a provider of software solutions to the insolvency industry, on an investment by Bowmark Capital, a private equity firm. Established by Dr Barry Wood in 1980, Turnkey has grown to become the market leader for corporate restructuring and insolvency softwar
