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Argyll solicitors Stewart Balfour & Sutherland invited guests to dress up and part with a few dingo dollars to attend a charity screening of the Australian cult film Priscilla Queen of the Desert at the historic Campbeltown Picture House.

When is a resignation not a resignation? Douglas Strang looks at a recent case that serves as a cautionary tale for employers. It is obvious that before an employee can claim unfair dismissal it is necessary to show that there has in fact been a dismissal by the employer (save where constructive dis

Two human traffickers have been told they have to pay more than £13,000 in compensation to their victims. Robert McPhee, 70, and his son-in-law John Miller, 40, were jailed for a total of 17 years in 2018 after being found guilty of a catalogue of crimes.

Families Need Fathers Scotland has been relaunched as Shared Parenting Scotland. At an event in Edinburgh last night, an audience of over 60 braved Storm Ciara to hear from family law expert Amanda Masson.

Holmes Mackillop has announced the promotion of Sarah Sheldon and Philip Symon to associate. Ms Sheldon continues to work in the property department in Johnstone and Mr Symon in the litigation department in Glasgow.

A couple who regretted taking free advice from an architect friend are facing a £1 million legal bill after a failed lawsuit against her. Peter and Lynn Burgess say the transformation of the garden at their £5 million London home would have been completed quicker and more cheaply without

A Spanish company that stopped paying employees during smoking breaks has won a case in the country's high court. Galp, an energy firm, said it was implementing domestic law when it began deducting time spent off-premises from employees' working days.

The operator of a fishing vessel which lost a crewman overboard has admitted health and safety offences. 47-year-old Annang Neurtey was lost at sea after he was struck by a wire on board the 20 metre trawler, Aquarius.

Lord Bonomy has been appointed as the UK's judge on the United Nation's roster of judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. Lord Bonomy graduated from Glasgow University and practised as a solicitor from 1970 until 1983. In 1984, he was admitted to the Scottish bar and,

A new magazine published by the Constitutional Court of Colombia features a contribution by a member of the Faculty of Advocates. Ximena Vengoechea has written a chapter on “Asylum in the UK” for the online magazine, Constitutional Themes, produced by the court. The entire first edition

An independent investigation report has found Police Scotland was not to blame for the injuries sustained by a disqualified motorcyclist who collided with a tree. When officers in Aberdeen came across the 28-year-old man just after midnight on 26 June 2019, they instructed him to stop but he failed

A Scots lawyer who became embroiled in a “tense and heated” exchange of emails with a former client in which the solicitor said “what would you expect from a pig but a grunt” has been found guilty of “professional misconduct”. Ross Porter, 56, was censured by the&

Nine businesses are being probed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for potential breaches of the new corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion, with 21 other potential cases under criminal review. Tax experts at Pinsent Masons said that the figures should act as

Legislation is required to tackle high rents in Scotland as efforts to date have failed to make an impact, argues Mike Dailly. Truth be told we haven’t done much to address unfair rents for more than a century in Scotland.

Team Scotland placed third in the 5th International Moot Court competition held in Gdynia, Poland at the end of January.