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It's that time of year again and we are updating our distribution list for the 2018 edition of our Annual Review, our full-colour glossy magazine that is delivered free of charge to Scotland's law firms. Once again, the magazine is packed with updates making it a vital read for Scotland's profession
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Jennifer White Jennifer White outlines the provisions of proposed trade legislation.
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Graham Ogilvy Scottish Legal News is pleased to report that we have had some excellent feedback from our Lawyers of Tomorrow feature which we ran last year.
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Wed 31 January 2018 18:00 – 19:30 GMT
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Friday 26 January 2018, 9.30am - 1.30pm
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Bankruptcy Restriction Orders (BRO), the ultimate sanction against rogue executives which ban individuals from being a company director, forming, managing – or even give the impression of managing – a limited company, for up to 15 years, are not being enforced by authorities, leaving former mill
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The UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that prisons in England and Wales are exempt from the smoking ban under the Health Act 2006. President Lady Hale said provisions of the Act prohibiting smoking in offices, bars and enclosed areas were not extended to government or Crown sites because under
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Peter Lawson Burness Paull has advised on the successful management buyout of Cortex Worldwide from a multi-billion dollar global corporation.
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Amnesty International has denounced the UK government’s policy requiring British-born children to register their legal right to citizenship in the UK. Amnesty described the policy as “profiteering” and an “outrage” as a hearing into the policy began at the High Court today.
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Pupils from schools across Scotland are preparing to debate the motion that ‘monuments to controversial figures should be removed’ when they take to the floor in the opening rounds of the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating tournament. Now in its 19th year the Law Society of Scotland’s annual debat
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A lawyer who ruled in the Rangers tax case ordered the bulk of his £4 million fortune be used to help with the education of the people on a Hebridean island. Kenneth Mure QC willed millions of pounds to charity on his death last year at the age of 69. Mr Mure was a member of the three-person tribun
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A non-EU national may benefit from a right of residence in the Member State in which his EU citizen family member resided before she acquired the nationality of that Member State in addition to her nationality of origin, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. The court ruled th
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The Pope has banned the sale of cigarettes at the Vatican because it is not "legitimate" to profit from something that harms public health. In a statement, the Vatican said Pope Francis had "decided that the Vatican will cease to sell cigarettes to employees as of 2018".
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More work is needed to address judicial diversity and issues with recruitment that threaten the UK’s world-renowned legal systems, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has warned today. The committee states in a report today that It is deeply concerned about the dispute between the UK governm
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The Law Society of Scotland, together with Addleshaw Goddard and the UK Chamber of Shipping, has developed a massive open online course (MOOC) about maritime law which starts on Monday 30 October. ‘Maritime law: an introduction to shipping transactions’, is a free online course, open to everyone
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