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A woman has won €10,000 after claiming that an allegation that she shoplifted a bag of potatoes had blighted her character. Lisa Moore, 38, was challenged by a security guard at Dunnes after a supervisor mistakenly raised the alarm, The Irish Times reports.

The current system of benefit sanctions is failing to treat claimants with dignity and respect and causing severe hardship for some of the most vulnerable people in society, according to the Law Society of Scotland. In its response to the UK Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into bene

A woman awaiting a £75,000 payout following a successful employment tribunal case against her former bosses who argued that the lack of a statutory power of arrestment to enable the tribunal to protect an award breached her rights under European law has had her claim dismissed. A judge in the

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) is acting for Speymalt Whisky Distributors on their newly announced distillery at Craggan, near Grantown-on-Spey.  This will become the first new malt whisky distillery to be built in the Cairngorms National Park since its creation in 2003. The multi m

Pictured (L-R): Carole Russell, John King and Eric Willis Conveyancing and land search specialist, Millar & Bryce, had made two senior technical appointments. 

  Perthshire law firm Macnabs has raised almost £5,000 for charity this year after taking part in a will-writing campaign in which lawyers give up their time for free to write wills for local people in exchange for a donation.

A Spanish court has ruled that a Deliveroo rider is an employee rather than a self-employed contractor in the country's first "gig economy" ruling. The 27-page judgment from Valencia Labour Court No. 6 could come as a blow to gig economy companies like Deliveroo, which argue that riders are self-emp

An international law student whose scholarship has not been honoured will be denied the opportunity to gain his LLB and will be sent back to his home country unless he can satisfy his university debts. Raphael Chinwuko was admitted to Durham University in 2016 and was offered a scholarship by a priv

Ampersand is delighted to confirm the date of our all day Summer Clinical Negligence conference this year will be 18th June 2018, to be held at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Edinburgh. Chaired by Douglas Ross QC the speakers and topics are:

The term ‘spouse’ within the meaning of the provisions of EU law on freedom of residence for EU citizens and their family members includes spouses of the same sex, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. Although the member states have the freedom whether or not to authoris

A man found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice while being held on remand by phoning friends on the outside to bribe a witness not to identify him in an ID parade after he had been accused of attempted murder had his appeal against convicted rejected. The appellant argued that the

Police are on the hunt for three people who allegedly fled from a cosmetic surgery clinic without paying a £2,000 bill. The two women and one man had Botox and lip enhancers injected at Persona Cosmetic Medicine Clinic in south-east London.

An organisation devoted to New York's legal professionals and law students who are Scots-born or simply interested in Scotland is hosting a revival event this week. After a period of dormancy the Scottish Bar Association of New York (SCOTBARNY) will host a revival event on June 7, from 7.00pm, at th

The total value of the residential sales market in Scotland from 2007-08 to 2017-18 was £161.3 billion, according to the sixth annual Registers of Scotland’s Property Market Report. Published today, the report details the trends in the Scottish land and property market from the pre-

Students at the University of Aberdeen have produced a video explaining the work of their legal society, which carries out pro-bono legal research and fundraising in promotion of the rule of law.