Marks & Spencer has lodged legal proceedings against Aldi over its iconic "Colin the Caterpillar" cake. The luxury retailer claims its discount rival has violated its intellectual property with its "Cuthbert the Caterpillar" cake.
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Professors James Chalmers, Fiona Leverick and Vanessa Munro address the 'not proven' debate with clarity and precision. In a recent piece in Scottish Legal News, Tony Lenehan argues that “the argument behind abolishing the 'not proven' verdict must be that juries can’t be trusted to conv
The largest rabbit in the world has been stolen from a garden in England, police have said.
All but one of President Joe Biden's first judicial nominees are women or from ethnic minorities, in line with his commitment to diversify the bench. Mr Biden yesterday unveiled 11 nominees for the Federal Circuit, the District Court and the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, of whom nine
Senior leadership changes are set to take place tomorrow at Mitchells Roberton, Glasgow’s longest-established firm of solicitors. In an initial move towards retirement and after a long and distinguished career focused on property law, Donald Reid is stepping down as chairman and partner in the
Stephen Miller looks at the fallout that follows an employee fall out and the social changes half a century of Employment Tribunal judgments reflect. Since their inception, employment tribunals have resolved countless workplace disagreements between colleagues arising from minor misunderstandings th
To mark the bicentenary of Session Cases, the Scottish Council of Law Reporting is running a poll to determine readers' top three cases. Today, former Lord President, Lord Hamilton explains the details of his top choice: Scottish Rights of Way and Recreation Society Limited v Macpherson 1887 14
Sarah Lilley reflects on her crash course in online lawyering precipitated by the first lockdown last March. In early March 2020 I walked out of Inverness Sheriff Court to make my way back to the office following a morning of court hearings. Inverness Castle, in which the sheriff court was housed fo
A court has reprimanded lawyers for using the typeface Garamond to fit more words into page-limited filings. Lawyers in Washington, D.C. were technically within the rules in using Garamond, which is slightly smaller than similar typefaces such as Times New Roman.
Divorcing couples are set to receive a £500 tax-free voucher for mediation in a UK government bid to ease pressure on the courts following the Covid-19 pandemic. The scheme is intended to allow couples to agree on custody and maintenance arrangements, as well as divisions of assets, without th
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. The Philippines: Supreme Court slams killings of lawyers, judges | The Independent
Sports lawyer Laura McCallum has been appointed to Sports Resolutions' panel of arbitrators and mediators as a development arbitrator. The panel includes many of the top legal, financial, medical, safeguarding and sport administrator professionals working in sport. Development arbitrators sit on a p
Scotland's lowest-paid prosecutors could receive an £8,000 increase to their salary next year as part of a £5.6 million pay offer aimed at averting a strike in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS). The three-year pay offer follows a ballot for industrial action launched
Legal aid fees have increased by five per cent across the board from today, the biggest increase in more than a decade – but the Law Society of Scotland has warned that more must be done to address a "generation of underfunding". The Scottish government unveiled its revised legal aid package i
Wealthflow's Dr George Callaghan explains why you should add the special sauce of compounding to your financial diet. Imagine the scene: it’s January the second and you have made a resolution to make healthier meals for yourself and the family. After a bit of internet searching, you find spina
