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Philip Simpson QC and Graham MacIver, instructed by the Office of the Advocate General, have successfully represented HMRC in a challenge to the loan charge legislation based on EU law: Finucane v HMRC [2021] CSOH 38. The challenge was brought in Scotland; there are parallel proceedings ra
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A terrible fate potentially awaits any Scottish folk troubadour lacking knowledge of US copyright law should he or she be tempted to record or sing in public a Scottish variant of Woody Guthrie’s great American anthem This Land is your Land, This Land is my Land, for they could find themselves
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LLB student Lucy Mackay has won the Glasgow Caledonian University STAR Award for Student of the Year 2021. The STAR Awards are an annual celebration event held by the Students’ Association to recognise and celebrate the hard work of volunteers and student groups.
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An Irish airline pilot who was allegedly forced into self-employment and began using a payment scheme regarded by the tax authority as tax avoidance as a result has failed to challenge the effectiveness of a charge imposed on him for taxes on outstanding loans technically due by him under the scheme
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French police are cracking down on secret restaurants where wealthy diners have been eating and drinking in breach of Covid-19 restrictions. The boss of one underground restaurant in Paris was arrested last week and over 110 of its guerrilla gastronomes were fined, TheLocal.fr reports.
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A new organisation has been formed to defend the interests of criminal solicitors. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) made its debut on Twitter this week where it announced Julia McPartlin as president and Stuary Murray as vice president.
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The number of unique visitors to the website of our sister publication Scottish Housing News has broken through the 100,000 mark for the first time — just as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. Visitors in March rose to 108,374 from 97,971 in February. Subscribers to SHN's free
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Benjamin Bestgen this week discusses violence against women. See his last primer here. One of the fundamental justifications for permitting an organised state, government and law enforcement to exist is that these institutions, and the people who serve in them, are meant to guarantee public safety.
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NQ Solicitor career talk (with G2 Legal and Addleshaw Goddard), Tuesday 16 March, 12:30pm Following the success of the Scottish roadshows last year, we are delighted to be partnering with G2 Legal and Addleshaw Goddard again this year to provide this virtual NQ career event.
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CMS is joining forces with experts in the Scottish business community to deliver ESG Exchange, a series of free to attend discussions focusing on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Throughout March, CMS partner Jae Fassam will be joined by specialist guest speakers to discuss the rea
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Long-serving members of West Dunbartonshire's children's hearing have been rewarded for their commitment to children and young people at a special recognition event. The dedicated members, who had served a combined total of 190 years on the children’s hearing, were each presented with a certif
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Legislation to increase the transparency of land ownership in Scotland has been passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament. The Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land regulations pave the way for the creation of a public database that will provide key information about those wh
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A new independent body has been launched to help drive up standards for new-build homes and strengthen protections for buyers across the UK. Members of the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) will oversee the introduction of a new industry code of practice in the months ahead, placing more responsib
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January was a record month for our sister publication Scottish Construction Now with 164,216 unique visitors to its popular website. Subscribers to the free SCN daily newsletter also continued to grow with another 177 readers signing up to keep abreast of developments in Scotland’s dynami
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The presidents of the UK's three law societies will set out their ongoing response to Brexit at an event early next month. The briefing has been organised by the UK Law Societies' Joint Brussels Office and will explore the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement and what this means for UK qualified so
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