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A car bomb exploded outside the courthouse in Derry on Saturday evening in a suspected dissident republican attack in which no one was harmed. Police, who arrested four people on Sunday in connection with the courthouse attack, described the bombing as "unbelievably reckless".

Scotland's lawyers have voted overwhelmingly, by over 76 per cent, in favour of a "People's Vote" on the final Brexit deal. Exactly 750 respondents took part in a poll by Scottish Legal News, the daily news service for Scottish lawyers, which was held on Thursday and Friday last week.

A consumer who purchased a new living room suite but rejected it following delivery because it was not of satisfactory quality and later gave it away after the seller ignored repeated requests to uplift the goods is entitled to a full refund, an appeal court has ruled. The Sheriff Appeal Court&

In a time of significant change to the civil litigation system, the approach to fraudulent exaggeration of insurance claims is diverging North and South of the border. This combination of developments may lead to a perfect storm for fraudulent claims in Scotland, writes Kate Donachie. In England and

One of Scotland’s top renewables lawyers has joined Burness Paull LLP as a director in the firm’s property team. With over 20 years’ experience advising developers, landowners, funders and investors in the clean energy market, Nicky Pascoe is acknowledged as an expert in her field.

Via Andrew Mackenzie: The Scottish Arbitration Centre had the pleasure of hosting a table at the Society of Scottish Lawyers in London Burns Supper, with guests Lisa Bingham, Louis Flannery QC, Samantha Cumming, Rona MacRae, Thomas Jones, Shimantika Mandal and Emily Albou.

A devout Christian who was fired because she refused to work on Sundays has been awarded $21 million in damages. Marie Jean Pierre, 60, had her religious requirements accommodated for nearly a decade by the Conrad Miami Hotel where she worked as a dishwasher.

A former soldier who contracted Q fever in Afghanistan is suing the Ministry of Defence in what could be a landmark case, the BBC reports.

Budget supermarket chain Aldi is offering graduates a comparable starting salary to some of the biggest international law firms, research shows. A new report from High Fliers Research places Aldi among the highest published graduate starting salaries for 2019 at £44,000.

Final year Dundee University law students Asa Jordan, Evana Ferguson, Daniel Breerton and David Durie have been selected to represent Team Scotland in this year’s Telders International Law Moot Court Competition. The competition, which runs from 23 – 25 May 2019, sees teams from European

Pinsent Masons has been named the most inclusive employer in the UK by lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall in its Top 100 Employers list for 2019.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is to appear on film – in the new Lego movie. Justice Ginsburg, known to her fans as the "Notorious RBG", will appear as a Lego figure clothed in judicial garb.

An agent acting on behalf of a landowner and a contractor in relation to proposed works at a quarry should be regarded as “aggrieved person” and therefore entitled to challenge a planning decision, a Court of Session judge has ruled. Lord Drummond Young held that the appel

Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems has lodged complaints against eight online streaming services in relation to alleged "structural violations" of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

A long-dead anti-Nazi resistance leader struck a blow for freedom when his statue toppled onto a fascist vandal who was trying to destroy the monument and broke his leg. In the incident described by the authorities in the Croatian coastal town of Split as “savage vandalism”, police said