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French people have been urged to buy more cheese after a sales slump linked to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Council of Appellations of Dairy Origin (CNAOL) has said sales declined by 60 per cent in the first month of the lockdown, CNN reports.

Harper Macleod has advised on the Scottish aspects of the £107 million sale of technical textiles business Low & Bonar plc to German firm Freudenberg SE, a leading player in the global market for performance materials. Low & Bonar is a Scottish founded and listed company with a manufac

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) has launched its new podcast series: Conversations with SYLA.

A man who stole a 2,000-year-old Roman relic has returned it as he believes "the end of the world is near” and wants to clear his conscience. Moshe Manies, who returned the 'ballista stone' on behalf of the man who stole it, posted about the relic on Facebook.

BTO Solicitors LLP has announced the launch of a new online product for its wills & estates and family law clients. This artificial intelligence tool will ease the process for new clients seeking advice on their circumstances. The product, which has been created in conjunction with legal tech co

The Crown Office is setting up a dedicated unit to examine COVID-19 deaths, the Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has announced. Mr Wolffe said the unit's findings would help determine if fatal accident inquires should be held and that this included, but was not limited to, "care home workers, frontli

A property development firm has succeeded in appealing a decision of the Upper Tribunal for Scotland that they were considered the property factors of a building under the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 and were required to comply with the Property Factor Code of Conduct. Proven Prop

RICS has called on the Scottish government for clarity on when the house buying and selling process can restart as it suggested house prices will be four per cent lower when the market reopens. The surveyors' body said it could take 11 months for prices to recover and said the Scottish government sh

Lockdown has created domestic tensions of many kinds in the home, for those in all different kinds of relationships, writes Lynne Mulcahy. Family lawyers are concerned about a number of adverse effects of the current crisis and the impact on clients (and others), who might be experiencing relat

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is to submit a report to the Crown Office over a potential prosecution in relation to the flaring at the Mossmorran complex in April 2019. Over 900 complaints were received by the agency’s pollution hotline, the highest number the agency has re

One of Scotland’s leading experts on immigration law, Alan Caskie, will be speaking in the last of the series of webinars on EU citizens’ rights, organised by the Citizens Rights Project. Applications for settled or pre-settled status can be refused if an applicant fails a ‘suitabi

Administrative law expert Paul Daly explores the Supreme Court's judgment in R v Adams. On two occasions in the 1970s, Gerry Adams, allegedly a leading member of the Irish Republican Army at the time and later a prominent Sinn Féin politician, was convicted of attempting to escape from lawful

For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Amal Clooney urges Australia to pass Magnitsky law to help protect global human rights | The Guardian

Sixty-six per cent of women in the legal profession say the coronavirus crisis is having an impact on their mental health, with over a third experiencing a drop in income and 67 per cent reporting that the organisation they work for has furloughed staff. The drop in income did not appear to result i