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A police-led taskforce will continue its work to tackle shoplifting and violence against staff after securing funding in the draft budget for 2026-27. The Retail Crime Taskforce was launched in April last year following £3 million investment from the Scottish government to combat a rise in ret

A police-led taskforce will continue its work to tackle shoplifting and violence against staff after securing funding in the draft budget for 2026-27. The Retail Crime Taskforce was launched in April last year following £3 million investment from the Scottish government to combat a rise in ret

Advocate Michael Upton FCI Arb updates readers on recent cases in communications law. The ‘new’ Electronic Communications Code came into force at the end of 2017 as a schedule to the Communications Act 2003. It governs telecoms masts and other "electronic communications apparatus"; speci

Burges Salmon has announced the appointment of four new partners, including two in Scotland, effective from 1 May 2026. This year’s partner appointments include Edinburgh-based Paula McGeady and Patrick Munro from the firm’s planning & compulsory purchase team.

The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published a scathing report on French prisons and detention facilities. During this visit, the CPT visited 14 police and gendarmerie detention facilities, four prisons (Fleury-M

The Access to Justice Foundation (ATJF) has announced a new £3.9 million grants programme that will support free legal advice organisations in Scotland. This is the first programme in the UK that redistributes unclaimed class action funds and is based on a grant-making strategy designed to ens

A waste management company has lost a Court of Session action in which it sought over £50 million following the postponement of the deposit return scheme for single-use drink containers in Scotland after it was ruled that a letter of assurance requested by the intended scheme administrator cou

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has proposed a 12.5 per cent rise to the general levy, which it argues is needed due to rising complaint numbers and the implementation of new legislation. In its budget for 2026-27, its anticipated expenditure is £5,990,482 (up from the previous

Renovation and safety works at Ayr Sheriff Court have already cost more than £250,000, with further work still to be completed. A freedom of information request by the Ayr Advertiser shows that £262,898 has been spent across two phases of repairs at the scaffolded court building, and tha

Burges Salmon, which has an office in Edinburgh, has completed around 80 corporate and M&A transactions since January 2024, totalling in excess of £3 billion in deal value. Some of the corporate and M&A team’s most notable transactions this year included AOTI’s £140 m

One of Glasgow’s busiest and best-known civil and criminal litigation firms is to be celebrated at an event next year. Founded on 1 October 1975 by Andrew Gallen, the business became part of The Glasgow Law Practice at the end of October. All offices, staff and clients of Gallen and Co have be

The dispute resolution and litigation team at Shoosmiths in Scotland has underlined the growing demand for its legal advice across key sectors, revealing a robust growth in financial performance over the last three years. The practice, co-led in Scotland by partners Andrew Foyle and Stuart Clubb, ch

TikTok has been dealt a blow in its legal battle against a US law that would see the platform banned if it is not sold to a new owner. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against TikTok on Friday in its challenge to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Contr

The Tumbling Lassie’s annual fund-raising ball, held in Edinburgh last month, raised over £20,000 for anti-trafficking charities. The event was organised by the Faculty of Advocates’ Tumbling Lassie Committee to raise funds for IJM (International Justice Mission) and SOHTIS (Surviv

The Sheriff Appeal Court has recalled an interlocutor dismissing a breach of contract action raised by a son after his father removed him as director of one of their companies and had the business wound up against an implied term of a previous verbal contract between the two. It was averred by Gerar