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Lawyers at Lindsays have sat down with one of Scotland’s leading broadcasters to help talk people through the impact of life-shaping decisions. Insight and advice on how to manage a range of important personal legal moments – including marriage, separation and ensuring your wishes are fo

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the National Crime Agency (NCA) have signed a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) that sets out how both organisations will cooperate to improve the UK’s cyber resilience. The aim of this work is to ensure that organisations across the

Solicitor General Ruth Charteris KC has vowed to continue tackling the serious and damaging crime of coercive control in domestic abuse cases. Ms Charteris made the pledge following the publication of data on domestic abuse and stalking charges in Scotland.

Professor Anne-Maree Farrell, chair of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh Law School, will be welcomed as a fellow to the Academy of Social Sciences this autumn. She is one of 45 social scientists to be selected, joining 1,600 other fellows from academia, the public, private and third sectors.

Young academics have been awarded funding by the Scottish Universities Law Institute (SULI). SULI publishes Scots law texts for practitioners, academics and texts, and in recent years it has established early career fellowships (ECR) and post graduate research (PGR) scholarships to support research

The Upper Tribunal for Scotland has allowed an appeal by a landlord ordered to pay over £5,000 to her former student tenants after finding that the First-tier Tribunal had inadequate evidence to reach the conclusions it did. Judith Kennard was ordered to pay a total of £5,175 to the five

Members of an exclusive Disney club have lost a legal bid to be re-admitted after allegations one of them was drunk in public. Scott and Diana Anderson, both 60, visited Disney's two Anaheim theme parks in California 60 to 80 times a year and paid dues of $31,500. The couple were spending close to $

Blackadders LLP has recruited seven new trainees to the firm’s training programme.

Apple must pay €13.77 billion in tax arrears and interest to Ireland after losing a long-running EU court battle with the European Commission. Both Apple and Ireland had contested the European Commission's 2016 decision that Apple had been granted unlawful aid which Ireland is required to recov

Emma Thomson has been appointed as a director at Gildeas Solicitors. Earlier in her career she spent three years at Kerr Brown and then Irwin Mitchell as a solicitor. Ms Thomson received her diploma in legal practice in 2011 and is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.

A former youth football coach who raped a young girl in his car has been jailed for five years with an extended period of two years. Lee Murray was found guilty of four charges following a trial at the High Court in Inverness on 30 July.

Dallas McMillan’s annual Charity Race Night was held at the Alea Casino, Glasgow on Friday 6 September. The firm will be 150 years old in 2025, in celebration of which it is attempting to raise £150,000 through a series of charity events to be divided equally between its four charity par

Implementation of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 has been hampered by a range of factors, according to Holyrood's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. The legislation was introduced to ensure that care and support is arranged, managed, and delivered in a way that sup

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has launched an online library of every case it has sent back to the courts since 1997. The CCRC Case Library allows users to search, filter, and read brief summa