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Richard Masters Pinsent Masons has appointed Richard Masters as chairman of company operations for Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Lawyers in Nebraska may accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as payment for legal services, a local state ethics committee has determined. The eight-member Lawyers' Advisory Committee said in an advisory dated 11 September 2017 that Nebraska attorneys can accept a cryptocurrency as long as they i

David Gourlay David Gourlay gives SLN readers a rundown of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017.

Police have urged primary school teachers and pupils to keep an eye out for suspicious plants "as the cannabis-growing season approaches". The police force on South Island, New Zealand ran the appeal in its latest newsletter, just below the results of a recent cross-country race, the Marlborough Exp

The founder of Scotland’s first legal aid centre, the Aberdeen Law Project, has talked about its beginnings in a new video.

Amanda Masson Reality needs to catch up with law when it comes to parental rights, says Amanda Masson.

Hundreds of people are expected to take the chance of a rare glimpse inside the Faculty of Advocates when the Advocates Library features in Edinburgh Doors Open Day 2017 on Saturday 23 September.

A collective redundancy does not always qualify as an “exceptional case” permitting the dismissal of a pregnant worker, according to Advocate General Sharpston. In the context of a collective redundancy, the dismissal of pregnant workers may only occur in exceptional cases not connected to the p

David Rennie Stronachs LLP is moving its Aberdeen headquarters to larger office facilities to bring all its services under one roof.

Nicky Morgan The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is facing a torrent of data protection requests demanding it release a report into Royal Bank of Scotland’s controversial Global Restructuring Group (GRG).

Three people have been fined in the German city of Essen for failing to come to the aid of a pensioner who collapsed in the lobby of a bank. Four bank customers were prosecuted for doing nothing to assist the 83-year-old man who suddenly collapsed and hit his head, leading to a traumatic brain injur

There is still time for solicitors and advocates to book a place at a major two-day conference on arbitration this month, endorsed by legal experts from a range of countries and jurisdictions

A hunting association has apologised for the "incomprehensible" actions of a hunter who left a tourist company devastated after he shot and killed their trekking donkeys. Arpi’âne, based in the French Alps, took to Facebook on Sunday to announce "the assassination of almost all of our herd of don

A landowner who raised a legal action against the Scottish Ministers over what he claimed was a “natural right of drainage” has been granted declaratory that the M74 motorway interferes with that right. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the defenders were interfering with the pursuer’

Michael Matheson Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has announced that Scotland’s first two community custody units, managing lower-risk female prisoners closer to local services and support, will be located in Maryhill, Glasgow and at a site still to be confirmed in Dundee.