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New routes to qualifying as a solicitor in Northern Ireland are set to be introduced in a bid to make the profession more accessible, inclusive and future-focused. The Law Society of Northern Ireland this week published the findings of a consultation it undertook between December 2024 and March 2025

Paul Weller, musician and former frontman of The Jam and the Style Council, has launched legal action against his former accountants after they resigned because he publicly accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. Mr Weller was a client of Leigh Genis of Harris and Trotter LLP for more than 30 years, unt

An assassination is pre-eminently a political murder; a killing, in itself a crime, has been sanctioned by someone with an interest in the outcome and carried out on their behalf. The traditional British political response to an assassination was to narrow the extent of an apparently preceding consp

A sheriff has ordered the payment of just over £436,000 by the stepmother of a pursuer who was due to receive funds under two testamentary trusts set up by his paternal grandparents after finding that she had breached fiduciary duties on behalf of a company set up by his father by allowing fal

Addleshaw Goddard (AG), which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, has posted record financial performance for the 12 months to 30 April 2025, with an eighth consecutive year of revenue and profit growth. Total revenues at the firm were up 11 per cent from £495.6 million to £5

A teenager who prepared to commit racially motivated acts of terrorism after being radicalised online has been sentenced to a total of 10 years' detention and eight years' extended licence period. The 17-year-old had planned to set fire to a Muslim centre in Greenock after befriending the Imam and m

UK hospitality businesses could be unwittingly landed in hot water by guests when the Employment Rights Bill comes into force next year, writes Robin Turnbull. Most employers are aware of the ‘headline’ provisions of the bill, like rights to claim unfair dismissal from day one and guaran

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israeli settlement plans will 'bury' idea of Palestinian state, minister says

A litigant in person has been criticised by a judge for relying on an AI chatbot that fabricated three legal precedents in a tax dispute. Marc Gunnarsson appealed after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sought to reclaim £12,918 in coronavirus self-employment support payments he had received. Repr

A group of tartan-clad legal professionals hit the streets to support a children’s charity.

The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on two judges and two deputy prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, French judge Nicolas Guillou and deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan, from Fiji, and Mame Mandiaye Niang, from Senegal, are the lat

Brian Inkster discusses the continued failure to implement alternative business structures in Scotland. Alternative business structures (ABS) in Scotland being kicked into the long grass was a possibility raised yesterday. This was at an online event organised by the Law Society of Scotland: 'Policy

A German neo-Nazi will begin serving an 18-month sentence in a women’s prison after using new gender recognition laws to register as a woman. Marla-Svenja Liebich, formerly, Sven Liebich, a far-right activist photographed at rallies in Nazi-style uniforms and armbands, was sentenced in July 20

Sheriff Alastair Carmichael, who uses technology that allows him to continue to work despite having motor neurone disease, has been profiled in a new article by The Daily Mail.  "The 15 men and women selected for the jury file into the courtroom to find the bewigged figure on the bench pro