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The Scottish Arbitration Centre has launched a new mediation service to enhance its dispute resolution offering. Following the publication of its Mediation Rules in September, the centre has now launched the service. The service provides a new administered mediation scheme to support businesses and

A check on the pages in Wikipedia for Diana, Princess of Wales suggests that there are at least 30 books about the lady, and the long article there has about 500 footnotes. That alleged number of books may be a low number of the actual publications, given foreign interest. These bare statistics do n

Benjamin Bestgen has penned a guide to wine labels for SLN readers this festive season. Last year I wrote about wine and the law for SLN. With the festive season in full swing, many of you will be going wine shopping. However, the sheer amount of options can overwhelm consumers. Therefore, shop

Karima Higgins has joined Inksters in its Glasgow office. Ms Higgins specialises in commercial legal work, commercial contracts, data protection, company secretarial work and corporate finance.

Accounts for Digby Brown show that the personal injury firm's turnover increased from £46.7 million in 2023/24 to £53.8m in 2024/25 – a rise of more than 15 per cent. And profits increased from £21.9m to £26.5m showing year-on-year growth of 21 per cent.

Aberdein Considine LLP has appointed leading contractual recoveries specialist Shilpi Jairath as operations director with its lender services practice group. Based in the growing firm’s Newcastle office and with over 22 years of experience in contractual recoveries across consumer and commerci

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. ‘Law is the only weapon I have’: a Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia

The justice sector is facing serious and complex challenges and without increased funding of £400 million (13 per cent) in next year’s budget, the sector faces unacceptable cuts to services, according to Holyrood's Criminal Justice Committee. The committee has been gathering evidence as

The Law Society of Scotland has announced two senior executive appointments as it prepares to support a "rapidly changing" Scottish solicitor profession. The Law Society has appointed a new executive director of member experience and a new executive director of operations, both of whom will take up

Former criminal judge Gilbert P. Self has been sentenced to decades in prison for stealing from the public. The former judge of Alabama's criminal courts used judicial bank accounts to fund personal holidays, including a ski trip to Montana and a cycling trip across Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

UK government plans to appoint the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as sole regulator for anti-money laundering (AML) across the UK have been criticised as a backward step in tackling economic crime by the Law Society of Scotland. In its response to an HM Treasury consultation, the Law Society has

Lithuania's parliament has voted to give a cat the power to sack the head of the country's national broadcaster. Opposition MPs succeeded in passing the so-called "cat amendment" this week in protest of controversial government-backed reforms.

Blackadders LLP is to donate £34,000 to Maggie’s Centres across Scotland after a year of fundraising for the cancer support network. The firm adopted Maggie’s as its charity of the year for 2025 and Blackadders’ teams from every office took part in a series of events and chal

The parents of a Scottish teenager who died after being targeted by an Instagram sextortion gang have launched a wrongful death lawsuit against Meta in the US. Murray Dowey, 16, died at his family home in Dunblane in December 2023 after being deceived into sharing intimate images with an Instagram a