Legislative proposals to help restore nature and protect biodiversity in Scotland have been introduced to Parliament. The Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill, which will now be considered by MSPs, would place a duty on ministers to set legally-binding nature restoration targets and aims to modernise
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A sheriff has ordered a company and its sole director to pay the excess monies from the sale of commercial premises to satisfy a secured debt to the premises’ original owner after he raised an action for accounting and payment seeking to enforce an agreement he had with them regarding the sale
New moveable property reforms are due to come into force in Scotland in April, brought about in response to widespread concerns that the current legal framework was outdated and inhibited economic growth, writes Ahsan Mustafa. The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 was enacted on 13 June
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Dundee employment lawyer Ryan Russell has been appointed senior managing partner at MML Law, one of the city’s leading law firms. Mr Russell, 41, has built up a reputation nationally acting in many high-profile and ground-breaking employment cases in recent years while progressing through the
Freshers at Oxford University gathered on campus last weekend to compete in a mooting event organised by the Oxford Commercial Chancery Law Society (OCCLS). The moot, held at Magdalen College in Oxford, was sponsored by the Faculty of Advocates. The participating students were judged by Dr Jordan En
A Glasgow sheriff has ruled that a housing co-operative could evict a Scottish secure tenant after it discovered that she had allowed drug dealers to use her property to store controlled substances in return for the cancellation of a debt. Drumchapel Housing Co-Operative Ltd raised an action for rem
A domestic abuser who tried to murder his estranged wife by running her over twice has been jailed for more than seven years. William Budge also admitted subjecting his victim to a campaign of abuse when he appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh on 6 January.
A new modern prison in Glasgow to replace the 143-year-old HMP Barlinnie has been given the go-ahead. With the construction contract now signed, HMP Glasgow will have a capacity of 1,344 – adding 357 more places to the overall prison estate once completed in 2028. The total project cost is &po
Kevin Kane has been named as the new chief executive of Shared Parenting Scotland. Mr Kane takes up the post after nearly six years as head of policy and research at YouthLink Scotland. Before that he was policy and research lead at Victim Support Scotland. He is also volunteer director and company
The Lady Chief Justice, Lady Carr, has delivered a lecture on the topic of 'Mediation after the Singapore Convention'. The lecture, topical as the UK became a signatory in 2023 but has not yet ratified the Convention, was delivered at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
The Scottish government has been warned that it risks falling foul of its own children's rights law if it does not give children – rather than parents or teachers – the right to withdraw themselves from religious observance at school. In response to a consultation which closed this week,
A very important lesson for those embroiled in disputes – and for their lawyers, too – popped up last week in the postscript of Lord Cubie's judgment in Hafthorsdotir v Eyvindsson, writes Bobby Murray. In short (and at the risk of some slight oversimplification), a husband had litigated
Scotland’s legal sector has made a strong start to 2025, with 103 new solicitors formally welcomed to the profession in central Edinburgh yesterday.
A commercial judge has disqualified a man from acting as a company director for seven years after finding he had used illegal migrant workers as the majority of the workforce of his takeaway business while he was director. Qiqing was made the subject of a petition for a disqualification order by the
