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CMS Scotland is launching an initiative aimed at helping Scottish-based intellectual property start-ups scale up. Founded over three years ago in London and with programmes across the UK, Singapore and Dubai, CMS equIP operates like an incubator, investing in start-ups through industry int

Legal professionals still have a couple of weeks left to sign up for this year's Scottish Legal Walks. he charity events, in aid of the Access to Justice Foundation (ATJF), consist of 10km walks in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Pictured (L-R): Lady Wise, Lynda Brabender QC, Lord Brailsford and Ruth Inne ,QC Family law practitioners heard expert analysis of an innovation in Court of Session litigation at a special Faculty of Advocates event.

Four men caught with significant quantities of cocaine, cannabis and cannabis resin have been jailed. Robert Wright, 55, Terrence Connelly, 31, Brian McCulley, 39, and Peter Ewing, 53, all admitted being involved in the supply of drugs worth a total of more than £1,720,000.

The notification, by the United Kingdom, of its intention to withdraw from the EU does not have the consequence that execution of a European arrest warrant issued by that member state must be refused or postponed. In the absence of substantial grounds to believe that the person who is the subject of

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued Equifax Ltd with a £500,000 fine for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million UK citizens during a cyber attack in 2017. The incident, which happened between 13 May and 30 July 2017 in the US, affected 146 million

Colleagues at a city law firm aimed high to help an amputee charity – raising more than triple their original target.

A financial health check of Scottish law firms has indicated that increasing work volumes have boosted revenue, although sole principal solicitor firms are shown to be struggling. Findings from the Law Society of Scotland’s 2018 Financial Benchmarking Survey, published in association with

A new café serving up second chances for former offenders has opened in Glasgow’s Dental Hospital. Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf today opened the new Street & Arrow project, in partnership with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, giving former offenders a route back to employment and

North Antrim MP Ian Paisley has narrowly survived the first ever recall petition held under the Recall of MPs Act 2015. The law, designed to allow voters to trigger a by-election in their constituency in certain circumstances, was introduced as part of the 2010 coalition agreement bet

Police have issued a warning to beachgoers not to take home giant bundles of cannabis that have started washing up on Florida's coast. One 61-year-old man has so far been arrested and charged with possession of cannabis over 20 grams for claiming part of the illegal flotsam.

A system aimed at rehabilitating domestic abusers is to be introduced in Dundee and Perth and Kinross, The Courier reports. The Caledonian System is a specialist court-mandated programme working with male perpetrators, which also aims to improve the lives of the women and children affected by domest

Women will make up a majority of the judges hearing a case at the UK's highest court for the first time in British legal history next month. Lady Hale, Lady Black and Lady Arden will join Lord Carnwath and Lord Lloyd-Jones in considering whether a 16-year-old

Sir Crispin Agnew QC is speaking at the UKELA (Scotland) Environmental Conference which takes place in Edinburgh on 27 September. Sir Crispin, who is a patron of UKELA, is speaking on a “Personal Reflection” of his 36 years working in Environmental Law. Places are still available an