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Scotland's largest haggis maker, Macsween, has won a legal dispute with a company it accused of trying to cash in on its name, The Times reports. A website selling Macsween haggis, "macsweenshaggis.co.uk", was registered by Hillhead Hampers, a business based in Bannockburn and run by Elaine Macphers

Former Northern Ireland solicitor and judge Greg McCourt has been appointed to scrutinise reports of searches and seizures carried out across the UK without judicial approval. Mr McCourt spent over three decades in private practice in Bangor prior to spending over a decade as a district judge in Nor

Brodies LLP has today unveiled its new brand, inspired by the firm’s history and its ambition. Enlightened Thinking is a culmination of the firm’s story, people, values, ideas and origins that date back to 1739 in Edinburgh, when many of Scotland’s leading minds helped sh

House prices across Scotland continue to grow, with respondents to the monthly RICS Residential Market Survey expecting further price rises for the year ahead. Unlike the majority of the UK, which has seen house price growth subdue following the new government bedding in, respondents to the July 201

Equal pay claims have certain special features, and the case of Graysons Restaurants Ltd v Jones and others highlights what that means in an insolvency context. Equal pay claims are based on discrimination principles but are basically breach of contract claims. They also have a unique treatment unde

A new UN convention providing for the enforcement of cross-border mediated agreements has been signed by dozens of countries. The UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, also called the Singapore Convention on Mediation, was adopted in December 2018 and was yes

Families can undertake inheritance tax planning for incapacitated relatives, an expert has said in the wake of a ruling from the Court of Protection. A judge allowed the family to make tax exempt gifts on behalf of their millionaire brother, who has been in a coma for more than a decade, The Telegra

Police have referred nearly a dozen people for prosecution in relation to social media posts identifying the killers of schoolgirl Ana Kriegel, according to reports. The anonymity of the two 14-year-olds, who were found guilty of murder in June, is protected by both court orders and legislation.

A decision by South Wales Police to equip officers with mobile facial recognition technology, via an app, has been condemned by human rights group Liberty. The force’s new use of technology comes while the case against their use of facial recognition, brought by Liberty client Ed Bridges, is y

Over the past three months, the average selling price in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders was £256,730, which was a 4.1 per cent increase compared to last year, ESPC reports. In Edinburgh, the average selling price was £276,582, which was a four per cent increase compared to

Edinburgh residents are being asked to share their views on a scheme that requires people who have committed offences to carry out unpaid work in the community as part of their sentence. Community payback orders (CPO) can be imposed on people who have committed offences by the courts as an alternati

Insolvency law and practice has undergone a number of fundamental changes in recent years, a process that has accelerated with the introduction of the new Scottish insolvency rules in 2006. With companies adopting more intricate structures and operating across more borders than before, the insolvenc

New Zealand is set to decriminalise abortion under new plans intended to bring the law "into line with many other developed countries". Under the present legal framework, which has remained unchanged since 1978, an abortion is only lawful in certain circumstances, including where continuing the preg

Police in a Texas town have been forced to apologise after photos emerged of an arrested black man being led with a rope by two white officers on horseback. The photos attracted sharp criticism on social media and from civil rights groups, who said the images resembled historic photos of slavery and

Campaigners have called for the legal fees of bereaved families in fatal accident inquiries (FAI) to be paid out of public funds, just as all Scottish Prison Service (SPS) legal fees are paid for by the taxpayer. The SPS has spent seven times more on solicitor fees in FAIs than bereaved families hav