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Irwin Mitchell Scotland has welcomed Izabela Wosiak, Rachel Brown and Emma McCutcheon to its personal injury team. Ms Wosiak, who joins the firm as senior associate solicitor, has 17 years' experience supporting foreign clients injured in Scotland or abroad.

David J Black tackles the issue of the day. One of the more annoying things about the British media in general, and the navel-gazing BBC in particular, is the irritating habit they all have of prioritising so-called news stories which are so trivial and ephemeral they barely deserve to make the insi

An Edinburgh woman who made an out of catchment placement request for her child after they were bullied at their secondary school has lost a Sheriff Court appeal against the refusal of the request by her local education authority. The pursuer, N, had previously had an appeal heard by the City of Edi

A charity led by Scottish lawyer Mary Sharpe has made submissions to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in a landmark case concerning restrictions on porn in Texas. Texas law HB 1181, signed into law last year, imposes strict age verification requirements on websites containing "sexual

A group of advocates have returned from an intensive 'train the trainers' conference held in the Drakensberg in South Africa. The five-day advocacy training conference aimed to develop new skills among those responsible for training aspiring advocates.

Thousands of drug convictions are set to be overturned because the drugs in question were produced by the police department that made the arrests. The Broward County Sheriff's Office in Florida manufactured crack cocaine between 1988 and 1990 and sent its officers onto the streets to sell it –

TikTok has been dealt a blow in its legal battle against a US law that would see the platform banned if it is not sold to a new owner. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against TikTok on Friday in its challenge to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Contr

Rights organisations have welcomed the dramatic overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as an opportunity to "chart a new future built on justice, accountability, and respect for human rights". Assad is said to have fled to Russia on Sunday as various paramilitary forces reached Damascus less t

Gilson Gray has appointed Stephen Forsyth as a legal director in Dundee.

Claire Loftus, Sir John Manzoni and Sir Ernest Ryder have been appointed as independent advisers to the Scottish Ministerial Code. Current advisers Lady Eilish Angiolini and James Hamilton have stepped down, having served for more than a decade in the role.

Irish lawyer Dr Barry Scannell examines a recent trademark case in which ChatGPT represented one of the parties. Good idea: Getting a well-trained lawyer to represent you in a trademark dispute. Bad idea: Having ChatGPT represent you in a trademark dispute.

An appeal under section 74 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 by a man accused of rape against a preliminary hearing judge’s decision to reconsider and then reject an application to lead evidence of a complainer’s previous theft convictions has been refused by the High Court o

A new “failure to prevent fraud” offence will impact organisations across the UK and internationally, requiring them to complete risk assessments and implement rigorous fraud prevention procedures and policies in place if they are to avail themselves of a statutory defence, writes Tom St

Stephen Chan, a partner in Harper Macleod's corporate, commercial and regulatory team in Edinburgh, has been appointed as a reporter to the Commercial Court of the Court of Session.  His role will be to assist the court by reporting on company petitions. Such petitions primarily cover complex s