A lawyer is facing a bill of more than £50,000 after having lost a court battle in a row over a "lovely thick" laurel hedge, The Times reports. Julia Lofthouse sued Nick Hartley after he told his gardener to thin the hedge that separates their properties in Surrey.
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Lord Neuberger has agreed to remain a judge of Hong Kong's top court for another three years, The Times reports. The former Supreme Court president's decision comes amid calls for the judges to step down over Beijing's attacks on democracy in the territory.
An international celebration of the 250th anniversary of the life and works of Sir Walter Scott is being launched this month. On World Storytelling Day on March 20 the night sky at Smailholm Tower, in the Borders, will be lit up at an event organised by Abbotsford, Scott’s home near Melrose, a
Sibel Top, a PhD fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, considers whether EU extradition laws have passed the "Catalan test". On 8 March 2021, the European Parliament voted to lift the immunity of Catalan MEPs, Puigdemont, Comin and Ponsati. Although this
Details of a proposed bill on housing will be published next week as part of a new 20-year route map for housing in the coming decades. Housing to 2040 – Scotland’s first long-term housing plan – aims to set the path for how homes and communities should look and feel in 2040.&
A Pakistani court has indefinitely delayed the appeal hearing of a Christian couple who have been on death row since 2014. Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel were imprisoned in 2013 and later sentenced to death for allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad.
Harper Macleod recorded a small increase in profits in its last financial year, despite the onset of the pandemic in the final weeks of trading. In its latest accounts filed at Companies House, the firm said it had met all of its strategic aims for the year to March 2020.
The Times reported last week on a bitter boundary dispute between two pensioners, each in their eighties, over a strip of land less than a metre wide. Apparently, the legal battle has cost them £500,000, contributed to the death of a spouse and caused stress-related illness. The parties h
As part of its commitment to set a pathway towards a net-zero carbon future, UK law firm Shoosmiths has committed to setting science-based targets through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Shoosmiths has committed to set emissions reduction targets across the entire value chain that are c
Tayside legal and estate agency firm Miller Hendry has announced three promotions and a new appointment at its Perth and Dundee offices. Lindsay Kirkwood has been promoted to associate in the private client team in Dundee, while Michael Johnston and Samera Ali have been promoted to senior solicitors
Juries should be cut from 12 members to seven in order to clear the Covid-19 backlog of criminal cases in England and Wales, Labour has said. The call follows a joint report from the police, prosecutors, prisons and probation inspectorates, which said the "unprecedented and very serious" backlog in
Crofters in some of Scotland’s most remote and marginal communities are to benefit from grants to improve their housing or build new homes. The Croft House Grant scheme aims to retain and attract people to rural communities while allowing them to achieve the full potential of crofts and genera
Disruption can bring opportunities, and those businesses which have a mindset of accepting opportunities thrown up from the unwelcome disruption caused by Covid-19 will survive and thrive, while new businesses will emerge to capitalise on these opportunities. Initially, the pandemic led to a tempora
UK government business minister Paul Scully has today issued a rallying call to employers across the country to ensure their organisation is spotting signs of domestic abuse. In an open letter to all UK employers, the business minister has outlined a few steps they can take to build awareness of dom
A six-year-old boy has cost his mother over €13,000 by buying virtual gold rings for real money in his favourite mobile game. Real estate broker Jessica Johnson was cleared out over the course of a month by her young son when he went on a spending spree in the Sonic Forces mobile game.
