Gateley, the first law firm to float on the London Stock Exchange, has seen its revenue rise by 13 per cent in the past year. The company's turnover for the year to April reached £137.2 million while profit increased by almost 12 per cent to £21.6m. Consequently, earnings per share rose
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An activist in Thailand has been imprisoned for two years for dressing like the Thai queen. Jatuporn 'New' Saeoueng, 25, wore a pink dress at a demonstration in Bangkok in 2020.
The annual Red Mass to mark the beginning of the new legal year in Scotland has been cancelled following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The event for the legal profession was due to take place on Sunday, 18 September at St Mary’s R.C. Cathedral in Edinburgh, which falls the day b
Sex workers have succeeded in joining a legal challenge to an attempt by Edinburgh Council to ban strip clubs in the city. Lawyers for United Sex Workers (USW) had applied to the Court of Session on behalf of the United Voices of the World union to be part of a judicial review of the council's
The bill for the failed inquiry into the collapse and sale of Rangers has cost the public purse almost £60 million. More than £40m has already been paid to people who were wrongly prosecuted and now the multinational finance firm that managed the club's affairs after it entered administr
Russian nationals applying for short-stay visas from EU countries must be subject to a "strict assessment of security risks", the European Commission has said. The Commission has published new guidelines for member states following a decision to suspend the EU's visa facilitation agreement with Russ
It was probably foreseeable that the 'not proven' verdict would go. While not all of the reasons for getting rid of it are cogent, we have to accept that it will be consigned to legal history. However, an important point is what will replace it. There may be an attraction to adopting the English ter
The School Mock Court Case Project is now looking for volunteer legal tutors for its Juniors Mock Court programme. The project is a Scottish charity that runs educational extracurricular activities for children and young people. The aim of the charity is to advance the education and aspirations of y
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Courts in Scotland will adjourn today following the death of the Queen. The Lord President, Lord Carloway, confirmed the closures. He said: “As a mark of respect for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, courts and tribunals across Scotland will adjourn today.
Homebuyer enquires in Scotland fell again during August as wider economic challenges impacted further on market conditions, the RICS Residential Market Survey revealed today.
The Court of Appeal has quashed another five convictions of sub-post masters and mistresses. The court ruled that their prosecutions and convictions were an abuse of the court’s process as the evidence against them arose from software, Horizon, which was replete with bugs, errors or defects, a
The man who was appointed as Scotland's first period officer is to take legal action after he was removed from his post, The Courier reports. Jason Grant, who took up the role only two weeks ago, is instructing Dundee firm MML Legal.
Internationally acclaimed social justice lawyer, Professor Thuli Madonsela, will speak at the Signet Library on Tuesday 13 September. Professor Madonsela was the lead constitutional lawyer in Nelson Mandela’s government and the co-architect of the legal framework which anchored South Africa&rs
The UK government's proposed Bill of Rights has been abandoned. The bill was due to have a second reading in Parliament next week. The government is now, however, "reviewing the most effective means to deliver objectives through our legislative agenda" and the Bill of Rights is "unlikely to progress
