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​Two Scottish solicitors have been shortlisted for the Law Society of Scotland In-house Rising Star Award 2021. Anna Ziarkowska, a conveyancing and planning solicitor at Aberdeenshire Council, and Angus Niven, in-house general counsel for media and production company, Boxmedia, have been shortlist

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a webinar entitled Employment Taxes – Latest Updates on 23 June 2021 from 1pm to 2pm. The speaker will be Caroline Colliston, Corporate Tax Partner at DWF. She will discuss:-

Sex workers in Spain have the right to form their own union, the country's Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The OTRAS union was established in August 2018 but closed its doors three months later following an order of the National Court.

A new act of sederunt provides court rules to support legislation introducing the procedure of Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting, which will apply in civil proceedings for damages for personal injury or death. The principle of the new procedure is that the court must not make an award of expenses aga

​The Law Society of Scotland has been named one of the UK's top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces for 2021 by the National Centre for Diversity.  The society placed 93rd on the Top 100 index, which recognises companies across the private, public and charity sectors that are best at promoting equa

Digital forensics experts tend to find more or less evidence to implicate or exonerate suspects depending on the contextual information about investigations, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Oslo gave 53 digital forensics examiners from eight countries, including the UK, th

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with Trustbar, will present a seminar to celebrate the Trusts (Scotland) Bill (SLC 239) – the first major reform of Scottish Trust law to have been proposed in 100 years. The event will be held on Wednesday 16th June from 5.30pm to 7.45pm at Parliament

Scottish solicitors have voted to approve a practising certificate fee for 2021-22 of 10 per cent less than the pre-pandemic cost in 2019-20. The proposal was put forward by the Law Society’s Council in April and is the second phase of a package of financial support announced in 2020, worth a

A rape complainant in Italy suffered a violation of her ECHR rights after she was re-victimised in court. In its judgment in the case of J.L. v. Italy, the European Court of Human Rights held, by six votes to one, that there had been a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private life and pe

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Germany officially recognises colonial-era Namibia genocide | DW

Usman Tariq and Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop QC, were counsel in a high-profile intellectual property dispute concerning lookalike products sold by supermarkets. They acted together with Burness Paull LLP for William Grant & Sons, the owner of the famous Hendrick’s Gin, in proceeding

An oil giant has been ordered to cut its global carbon emissions in a landmark ruling involving 17,000 co-plaintiffs. Royal Dutch Shell was ordered by a court in The Hague to lower its emissions by 45 per cent by the end of 2030 as compared with 2019 levels in a case brought by Friends of the Earth.

The supreme authority in the United Kingdom is the rule of law and its application is administered through a balance of the three branches of government and not through attempts by one branch to curb or blunt the role of the others. This was the view of the Faculty of Advocates in its submission to

Macdonald Henderson has advised medical device company Emblation on an investment by healthcare investor Apposite Capital to support its international growth and broaden its market offering. Created in 2007 by joint co-founders Gary Beale and Eamon McErlean, Emblation designs, manufactures and comme

The Crown Office has once again been accused of carrying out a malicious prosecution. The head of a UK cheque cashing firm is the latest to claim he was the victim of an unwarranted raid and imprisonment, The Herald reports.