More than one in four businesses that deferred tax payments during the initial lockdown last year still owe HMRC billions of pounds. A total of 156,500 out of 590,000 businesses that utilised Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s VAT deferral between March and June have failed to make contact with HMRC to
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Human rights lawyers are among tens of thousands of people whose phones were allegedly targeted with spyware made by an Israeli company and sold to law enforcement agencies worldwide, according to a major investigation. Dozens of journalists co-ordinated by Forbidden Stories with technical support f
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed fines totalling over £260 million for competition law breaches in relation to the supply of hydrocortisone tablets. The fines are the result of a CMA investigation into the conduct of several pharmaceutical firms which found that Aud
Allen & Overy's financial results have revealed that its equity partners each earn £1.9 million on average. The practice increased pay for its top tier partners by 17 per cent in spite of the pandemic. It reported yesterday that revenue increased by five per cent to £1.77 billion, wh
A Scottish care homeowner has been banned from serving as a company director for six years after his firm went into liquidation with no explanation for the hundreds of thousands of pounds that disappeared from company accounts. Laurie Gray, 50, from Hamilton, was director of Saltcoats company&n
Poland’s way of disciplining judges falls foul of EU law, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said. The court said in a statement that “the disciplinary regime for judges in Poland is not compatible with EU law”.
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. As global pressure over human rights abuses in Xinjiang picks up, China remains defiant - ICIJ
The Scottish government has yet to achieve its objective of ensuring that people convicted of criminal offences increasingly receive community-based sentences instead of going to prison, according to a new report. The Community Justice (Scotland) Act was introduced in 2016 and established a new nati
To date no issues have been encountered by advocates in relation to the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), the Faculty of Advocates has said. The Faculty was responding to the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) Questionnaire, which sought input on issues arising from the agreement
A solicitor who prepared false invoices for non-existent work in order to steal more than £12,500 from clients’ accounts and who pleaded guilty to embezzlement has been ordered to carry out unpaid work. Louise Sutherland, 60, took the money while employed at Graeme Murray & Co Solici
Poland's judges have defied a European court order to undo the country's judicial reforms, casting doubt on its future as a member of the EU. Stanisław Piotrowicz, a senior judge, said the interim measures of the Court of Justice of the European Union were “not in line” with the Polish
Scotland's property prices have continued to rise, with the highest increase in house prices recorded in over a decade. The pandemic has caused a property boom, reaching its peak in May, which has led to a 12.1 per cent rise in property prices.
Six students of the Lawscot Foundation, the Law Society of Scotland's social mobility charity, are set to become its first ever law school graduates when they don their caps and gowns to graduate from universities across Scotland over the next week. The Lawscot Foundation students graduating this ye
The General Court of the European Union has dismissed an action brought by Nike and Converse against the European Commission's decision to initiate a formal State aid investigation in respect of their tax arrangements in the Netherlands. In 2019, the Commission decided to initiate a formal investiga
Political parties in Scotland are calling for laws to enshrine a fair tipping code after claims a top chef allegedly took thousands in gratuities from staff. The calls follow accusations made by employees of the Kitchin Group that head chef Tom Kitchin and his wife took sums earned by work
