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TLT partner and head of licensing in Scotland, Stephen McGowan, has published a book exploring the complex world of alcohol licensing in Scotland. Aimed at licensing practitioners, solicitors, local authority and police officers, as well as business owners, McGowan on Alcohol Licensing Law in S

The regime on court orders determining with whom a child lives or spends time is changing, writes Alison Nicol. The factors which a Scottish court must consider when deciding with whom a child should live or otherwise spend time are changing to include the effect a court order might have on &ld

Should climate change be a mandatory part of legal education to prepare Scotland's lawyers of the future? Or, would having a universal definition of 'ecocide' help to tackle climate change globally? Scots Law students have been challenged to write or record their views on climate change and the law

Malcolm Gunnyeon considers the domestic implications of a recent corporate emissions decision from the Netherlands. The recent landmark ruling by the Dutch courts against Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest energy companies, is a stark warning to large emitters everywhere of the pote

An interesting little conundrum for those with too much time on their hands. The flash floods in Edinburgh’s fashionable Stockbridge area earlier this year did significant damage to property, but thankfully, in contrast to similar events in Germany, no lives were lost. For this we may be grate

Crimestoppers Scotland is offering a reward of up to £10,000 for anonymous information in connection with the historic case of the murder of Shona Stevens.

A new plan aims to positively impact the lives of people from minority ethnic communities, as part of Scotland’s recovery from the pandemic. The Immediate Priorities Plan for race equality focuses on the roots of inequalities which disproportionately impact minority ethnic communities.

Dmitry Dedov, Russia's judge at the European Court of Human Rights, gave a partly dissenting opinion in today's long-awaited judgment in the case brought by the widow of Alexander Litvinenko against the Russian state. Mr Litvinenko, a Russian defector and dissident, was fatally poisoned with poloniu

A petition for recognition of foreign legal proceedings under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 by the Director of Finance for a group of insolvent companies has been refused by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Chang Chin Fen sought recognition of two orders f

Jonnie Hall, NFU’s Director of Policy, will deliver the keynote session entitled ‘The transition to a new agricultural policy for Scotland beyond the CAP’ at CLT Scotland’s Rural Law Conference taking place online on 27 October. Chaired by Hamish Lean of Shepherd & W

With speakers drawn from private practice, the Bar, law accountancy and the medical profession, CLT Scotland’s Personal Injury Conference taking place online on Monday 25 October will provide a thoroughly practical focus Chaired by Lefevres’ Iain Nicol, the conference will consider: the

Legal academics, including many from Scottish universities, have written to the University of Sussex in support of Professor Kathleen Stock, "for her academic work and public interventions on the questions surrounding the legal recognition of sex and gender identity." Professor Stock, a philosophy a

Scholar and sometime strongman Professor James Chalmers has been laying down the law – in the gym. More accustomed to reps with the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia, Professor Chalmers has perhaps found it necessary to toughen up now that he walks the mean streets of Glasgow.

The nieces of a deceased Irish citizen who executed her will in Scotland have failed in their application to have the writing on the back of an envelope containing a copy of the will recognised as an adjunct or codicil to it. Christina Cummins and Bridget Tierney, the nieces of the late Mary Downey,

The pandemic has forced separating families, and their lawyers, to work very differently over the past 18 months. Compounded by Brexit and general economic uncertainty, the future for family law, and those couples and families affected by it, may be unrecognisable by the end of the next decade, comp