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A Glasgow man who illegally dumped asbestos on private land has been fined. Iain McGuiness, who owned a building maintenance company at the time, drove a van containing the waste to a site in the city’s London Road on 24 October 2019.
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The UK Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the £1,012 fee required to register children as British citizens, while recognising that the fee excludes large numbers of children from their rights. The ultimately unsuccessful legal challenge was brought by the Project for the Registra
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Thursday 24 February 2022 at 6pm The Scottish Young Lawyers’ Association is collaborating with Harper Macleod LLP to host ‘Spotlight on...Decarbonisation and Natural Capital’.
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A project that brings the law to schools has an opportunity for a new lawyer. MiniTrials – conceived by Lord Kinclaven – was launched in 2002 and has helped thousands of pupils throughout Scotland learn about the legal system.
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A health board that admitted liability to a patient jointly with a private doctor for serious personal injuries suffered by her has had its contribution for the award of £2.8 million damages assessed at zero per cent, with the doctor bearing 100 per cent. Carolyn Almond-Roots attended the acci
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Criminal offences associated with fireworks have been proposed in a new bill. The Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill provides for tougher action on the sale and use of fireworks and the misuse of pyrotechnics. The bill follows the report of an independent Firework Review Group which
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Jacqui Taylor has been assigned temporary president of the newly created Local Taxation Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland. The appointment is for three years and is made by the president of the Scottish Tribunals, Lord Woolman.
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Native American tribes have settled for $590 million with Johnson & Johnson and three other drug distribution companies over opioid addiction in their community, The Times reports. The drug giant and distributors McKesson Corp, AmerisourceBergen Corp and Cardinal Health Inc had proposed paying a
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Thursday 3 February 2022 17:15 to 18:45
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CLT Scotland has launched an important new Conveyancing Conference which will take place online on 23rd March. The conference will focus on a number of key developments, from the imminent launch of the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land, the impact of the recently published Ne
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As of yesterday, the time limit for submitting an application to the European Court of Human Rights is four months, reduced from six.
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Thursday 17 February 2022 at 6pm The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) are delighted to host a team from the UK Supreme Court who will discuss what life is like working as a judicial assistant.
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A contempt of court hearing linked to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's (SLCC) attempts to recover a file has ended with contempt not being upheld against a solicitor, but with costs awarded. The hearing at the Inner House of the Court of Session was ordered in relation to a solicitor&rsquo
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Police officer numbers in Scotland are at their lowest point since early 2009 – well before the Scottish government merged forces to create Police Scotland in 2013. There are currently 17,117 full-time police officers serving across Scotland, as of December 2021, surpassing previous lows recor
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A woman who hired a construction company to build a luxury dog hotel in Aberdeenshire has lost an appeal seeking to reduce a decree ordering her to pay over £40,000 to the company. Laura Tierney originally raised an action seeking repayment of money she claimed had been paid to the defender, G
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