Congratulations to Emily Ross on winning the Shepherd & Wedderburn Prize for the best student in property law at Aberdeen University. Emily is pictured here being awarded the prize by Dr Susan Stokeld.
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Divorce judges will assign custody over pets on a similar basis to custody over children under new legislation in California. Judges are now legally required to consider an animal's best interests in divorce proceedings and can order shared ownership of a pet.
Lord Hodge has expressed his doubt that complex financial crimes are best tried before a jury instead of a tribunal or court of specialists. The UK Supreme Court justice made the remarks in a speech in Shanghai on "The involvement of the public in the criminal process in the United Ki
A town council has scrapped its long-standing ban on snowball fights after a sustained campaign by a local nine-year-old. Dane Best, who lives in Severance, a small town in the US state of Colorado, found out about the obscure, largely unenforced law during a school trip to the town hall.
Harper Macleod has recruited Fiona Neilson, one of the Highlands' best known corporate and commercial lawyers, as a partner in its Inverness office. Ms Neilson, for many years a partner at Ledingham Chalmers, has joined the team advising businesses and organisations of all sizes on all of their corp
A man has admitted that he tried to rob a bank because he wanted to be sent to a prison rumoured to have the best food. William Gallagher, 68, appeared in court in Wisconsin less than a year after leaving prison in New Jersey.
DAC Beachcroft has been named one of the 50 best businesses to work for in Scotland by Best Companies. Employees across DAC Beachcroft’s offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh took part in Best Companies’ employee engagement survey late last year, responding to 70 questions about the
Via Ledingham Chalmers: "Our LEDS Factor team has only gone and won three awards (best social media, most innovative fundraising idea and overall champions) for our 'out of the comfort zone' project to raise money for Charlie House HQ's #venture2019 challenge.
In an age where viral marketing and social media reign supreme, establishing the best method of enforcing your intellectual property rights (“IPR”) can be a thorny issue. Recent years have seen large companies take an increasingly creative approach to managing their IPR, especially trade
Views sought on incorporation of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law
The Scottish government is seeking views on how best to incorporate the UN’s ‘gold standard’ for children’s rights into Scots law and improve the lives of children and young people. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is the most complete statemen
The Scotch Whisky Association’s legal team has been awarded the best Not For Profit Organisation Team of the Year at the World Trademark Review Awards in Boston.
The mother of a child with selective mutism has been unsuccessful in establishing that it would be in the child’s best interests to relocate to her native Germany and have that be the child's principal residence. Sheriff Ian Cruickshank heard evidence from MK, the pursuer, who sought a residen
A lawyer writes about their experience applying for a role in Scotland's judiciary, covered in SLN earlier this year. Clicking on your daily Scottish Legal News email one morning, you see that the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland, or JABS as it likes to be known, is recruiting again. Th
Via Shepherd and Wedderburn: "Congratulations to University of Aberdeen student Niamh Johnston. We were delighted to present her with the award for 'Best Student on Private Property and the Common Good' when she joined partners Hamish Lean and Keir Willox at our Aberdeen office. We wish her al
Johan Findlay JP OBE looks at the history of women on the JP bench. It is 100 years since the death of Sir Hugh Munro, the Scottish mountaineer best known for listing and climbing mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet, known now as Munros.