One hundred and forty-seven new subscribers last month signed up to the free daily Scottish Legal News newsletter taking the publication through to 14,009 – passing the 14,000 milestone for the first time since its launch in 2008. SLN’s social media presence was also strengthened with Tw
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Livingstone Brown has moved to a new flagship office in Glasgow City Centre at 250 West George Street. This news follows the the firm's successful night at the Scottish Legal Awards, where Stuart Munro was named Managing Partner of the Year and where the firm also collected the award for Criminal De
Ever-increasing interest in Scotland’s land is opening up the prospects of a win-win that benefits the nation and nature like never before, a major conference will hear today. Natural capital is the headline topic at the virtual three-day Land Connection 2021 conference, which brings experts t
Public spending on legal aid has dropped by £85 million over two decades, the Herald on Sunday reports. In 2007/8 the figure was £155 million while in 2019/20 it had fallen to £130.85m, a drop of £85m when accounting for inflation. Gross spending has declined by a further 23
A solicitor who encouraged a client to invest in a firm that had links to a rogue businessman has been struck off for professional misconduct by the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT). Kenneth Macleod, 85, used funds to invest in the company in the knowledge police had raised serious co
Complainants are waiting more than 600 days for justice after reporting a crime – a rise of more than 50 per cent in the past year. Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that in the second quarter of this year, the time between a crime occurring and a case being resolved in court was 622 d
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. ‘There’s cameras everywhere’: testimonies detail far-reaching surveillance of Uyghurs in China | Uyghurs | The Guardian
Burness Paull has signed an agreement to become the exclusive Scottish law firm pro-bono partner of the Lifescape Project, a specialist charity set up to promote the creation, restoration and protection of wild landscapes, including in Scotland. Bringing together science, technology, law, economics
A new book by Professor Federico Fabbrini, director of Ireland's DCU Brexit Institute and full professor of EU law at the DCU School of Law and Government, provides the first comprehensive academic analysis of the new terms of EU-UK relations post-Brexit. Launched today, The Law & Politics of Br
The watchdog Ofcom has added the words "nat" and "yoon" to its list of offensive terms. The broadcasting regulator tested audience responses to political terms for the first time as part of research into offensive language.
More than 800 SMEs are now plaintiffs in a legal case against the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks after hundreds more joined the lawsuit. The claim form, filed in the Chancery Division of the High Court, contained a further 436 claims on behalf of a further 266 SMEs.
There has been a sharp increase in the number of bicycles reported as stolen over lockdown, new figures show. In tandem with the rise in the number of people cycling over the past 18 months there has been a 20 per cent increase in reports of thefts.
A Berwickshire based company has been fined £300,000 after an employee was crushed by a concrete panel. BSW Sawmills Limited pled guilty to health and safety breaches committed between 1 June 2017 and 6 October 2017 at Dumfries Sheriff Court on 28 September 2021.
This year's Scarman lecture will debate ‘what works’ questions in relation to addressing how the criminal justice system responds to the challenges presented by substance use. Speakers will address the critical questions of how and if criminal justice systems should respond to substance
A judge has brought to a halt a lawsuit filed by Evel Knievel’s son that accused Disney of profiting from the daredevil's image through Toy Story 4 character Duke Caboom. Kelly Knievel had claimed the character was based on his father without permission and amounted to unjust enrichment and an
