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Via Blackadders: A group from Blackadders had a fantastic night at the Dundee Faculty Dinner. The Faculty of Procurators and Solicitors in Dundee was formed in 1820 by Royal Charter and is open to all solicitors and trainees in Dundee.

The UK is in significant violation of the provisions of a European employment charter as a result of offering an inadequate minimum wage and failing to provide workers with legal guarantees to ensure they are remunerated for overtime. A report on the European Social Charter by the European Committee

RSB Lindsays' chairman has detailed the firm's plans to increase sales to £20 million in the coming three years, The Courier reports. Turnover at the firm has doubled in the past eight years following a series of mergers. In 2012, it merged with Shield & Kyd, giving the firm its first base

Lawyers have been reprimanded for using a transgender client's birth name when advising them on a discrimination claim. A leaked document from the Legal Ombudsman shows that a law firm was forced to compensate the client after it used her birth name in correspondence that provided advice on the clai

DWF's innovations in combating fraud have been highlighted at the 2019 Scottish Legal Awards, where the business secured two accolades. Jill Sinclair, partner and head of counter fraud (Scotland) at DWF's Glasgow office, picked up the coveted Lawyer of the Year award for her achievements in tackling

An army rifleman was reprimanded after going on a killing spree – in a virtual battlefield. In the computer game which soldiers are required to train on, he shot dead a comrade and destroyed vehicles in order to kill others.

A motorist found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving who claimed that he “blacked out” behind the wheel as a result of medications he was prescribed has had a damages action against his GP dismissed. Vincent Friel sued Dr Ian Brown for “negligence”, bu

A senior criminal practitioner will be a Faculty representative on a new panel looking at the way sexual offence cases are dealt with in the courts. Frances McMenamin QC has been confirmed as a member of the review group, chaired by Lady Dorrian, the Lord Justice Clerk.

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has started work on a two court complex to hear sheriff and jury cases and custody cases in Kirkcaldy.

There has been a 16 per cent fall crime in Scotland since 2016-17, new figures show. Less than one in a hundred people (0.7 per cent) experienced more than one violent crime in 2017-18 and this group accounted for three-fifths of all violent crime, according to the Scottish Crime and Justice Su

The recent high ­profile ­sexual harassment ­cases in the media, and the growing momentum of the #MeToo ­movement, has prompted closer examination of how businesses are responding to such incidents in the workplace, writes Craig Asbury. Confidentiality clauses – sometimes refer

TLT has advised Molson Group, the UK's largest independent construction equipment supplier, on its acquisition of Finlay Scotland Ltd. In June last year, TLT advised Molson on its acquisition of Finlay Plant (UK) and its subsidiary and associated companies.

A businessman who raised a series of “hopelessly irrelevant” and “incompetent” legal actions after being sequestrated for failing to pay his council tax has been declared a “vexatious litigant”. The Inner House of the Court of Session granted an order ag

Swingeing cuts to legal aid have had a devastating effect on parts of Wales, with some towns having no law centres or legal aid lawyers, The Guardian reports. Before the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (Laspo) in 2013, legal aid would have accounted for 40 p

A housing body has called on the Scottish government to introduce new legislation to allow social landlords to remove domestic abusers from a domestic setting. In its response to a government consultation on emergency barring orders (EBOs), CIH Scotland recommended that if someone is at risk of dome