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Scots lawyers are overwhelmingly in favour of a four-day work week, a Scottish Legal News poll has, unsurprisingly, found. Of the 331 responses to our survey, 286 readers, or 86.4 per cent, answered 'yes' to the question: Do you believe that lawyers should work a four-day week?

A police sniper rifle dramatically landed on the St Patrick's Day parade in Buffalo, New York after being blown over by a gust of wind. Buffalo Police said it is continuing to investigate the circumstances in which a sniper rifle fell from a building and landed within feet of parade spectators, WGRZ

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued an enforcement notice to the London Borough of Lewisham Council for failing to respond to hundreds of overdue requests made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. The council revealed the true extent of its poor performance on i

A new bill to protect the environment and tackle the persecution of birds of prey has been published. The Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill aims to:

A Luxembourg-based pharmaceutical company has succeeded in an action in the High Court of England and Wales in which it alleged that a drug manufacturing division of an NHS trust was in breach of a drug development agreement (DA) relating to a treatment for lung disease. SciPharm S.a.r.l claimed tha

The UK government has announced that the maximum jail sentence for tax fraud will double from seven to 14 years for the most "egregious" forms of evasion. The Treasury announced the change in last week's spring budget and said it will consult on the introduction of a new criminal offence for pr

Dr Mitchell Lennan and Dr Constantinos Yiallourides, lecturer and honorary lecturer at Aberdeen University's School of Law, have contributed chapters to an edited collection on the rule of law for oceans. The Environmental Rule of Law for Oceans – Designing Legal Solutions, edited by Dr Froukj

There are still spaces available for the Trusts, Fiduciaries and Executries Bar Group (TrustBar) seminar this Thursday 23 March 2023 at the Royal Northern and University Club, 9 Albyn Place, Aberdeen, AB10 1YE. For further information, including how to book your place at this event, please see the e

Foreign lawyers and law firms will be allowed to practise in India following a historic decision by the Bar Council of India (BCI). New rules will allow foreign law firms to set up offices in India to practise transactional and corporate work on a reciprocal basis.

A Deputy Judge of the High Court of England and Wales has granted permission for a Ukrainian father to withdraw an application under the Hague Convention of 1980 under which he sought the return of his two children to Kyiv. Applicant NW had remained in Ukraine under the requirements of martial law w

The public affairs in this country are normally conducted on the basis that politics and the law are immiscible. In his defence against the Partygate allegations of contempt of Parliament currently before the House of Commons committee on Privileges, Boris Johnson is trying to blend the two, writes

Solicitors and legal staff are being invited to attend a demonstration of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service’s new Civil Online platform. The new portal has been developed to include the legislative change required for Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 20

Westwater Advocates' Greg Sanders' new book has been published. A Practical Guide To The Right to Roam in Scotland comes after he "identified a gap in the market for a comprehensive, practical guide looking at the competing interests of landowners and ramblers".

A cross appeal on the continued existence or implied re-creation of servitude rights in a Fife property that came to be owned by the proprietor of the burdened property before being sold under a standard security has been allowed by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Stuart Logan, originally the pursuer in a

A woman who claimed refunds on shoplifted items more than a thousand times between 2015 and 2019 has been convicted of fraud.