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EY Law is planning to treble in size in the UK and Ireland in the coming three years in a move that could see it recruit some 800 extra lawyers, Law.com reports. The legal division of the accountancy giant currently has 200 UK lawyers but Philip Goodstone, head of EY Law in the UK and Ireland, said

Nominations are now open for solicitors hoping to join the Law Society of Scotland’s decision-making body, representing the Cupar, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy constituency. The previous Council member, Roshni Joshi, resigned her seat having made a career move to the Procurator Fiscal’s Off

Justice Secretary Keith Brown’s wish to find “credible and consistent” alternatives to a custodial sentence is laudable. That said, finding these is not an easy task, nor can it be done without substantial and long-term investment – something which many governments do not esp

Brexit has prompted a record number of trademark applications in the UK, according to new data. There were 195,000 trademarks registered in the UK in the past year, an increase of 54 per cent on the previous year's figure of 127,000.

A former Syrian intelligence officer has been sentenced to life in prison following his conviction in Germany for crimes against humanity. German prosecutors alleged that Anwar Raslan, 58, was in charge of the Al-Khatib prison in Damascus where Syrian dissidents were tortured and killed.

Prosecutors are less likely to pursue people involved in mercy killings in cases where a suspect is “wholly motivated by compassion” or where the person had reached a “voluntary, settled and informed decision to end their life”. Current Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) advice

Mark Zuckerberg may be forced to pay UK Facebook users about £50 each if a legal case succeeds. Competition law academic Liza Lovdahl Gormsen is to lodge a case against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, on behalf of 44 million users between 2015 and 2019, The Times reports.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UN chief warns millions of Afghans are on ‘verge of death’ | Al Jazeera

A sheriff has been charged in connection with matters which will become public when he appears in court shortly. Alistair Duff, 67, who once represented Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, retired on December 1 last year after a 45-year career. 

MBM Commercial’s corporate, tax and employment teams recently assisted the senior management team of Highfield Forestry to buy out the business on the retirement of Iain Peddie, who was the managing director at the company for over 20 years. Highfield Forestry is a woodland management company

Crown Estate Scotland is offering two tenant farmers the opportunity to buy their farms. Tenants on Auchindoun Estate in Moray and Applegirth Estate in Dumfriesshire are being made the offer as part of a pilot which may be extended.

A care home company has been fined £640,000 after one of their residents choked on a piece of doughnut and died. The 65-year-old resident of Orchard Care Home in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire was on a specialist diet of minced and moist food after a severe stroke and vascular dementia left her a

A successful ship arrest in Scotland requires consideration of various key factors coming together and an element of good timing. When an instruction to arrest is received, moving quickly is often important, but should never be at the cost of accuracy, write Duncan MacLean and Sarah Polson. The init

The UK Supreme Court, in partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London, has launched an online course. Entitled Inside the UK Supreme Court: Its Role, Its Work and Cases that Affect Us All, the two-week course, delivered by FutureLearn, a social learning platform, is designed to increase kno

Amnesty International has called on the Kazakhstani authorities to release journalists and activists who have been arbitrarily detained for their coverage of mass protests across the country over the past week, as the number of individuals arrested reaches close to 10,000. The human rights organisat