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The latest start-up data paints a highly encouraging picture for Scotland's innovation economy, writes Pamela Bryer. While overall UK company incorporations have moderated, Scotland has emerged as the strongest-performing region for new business formation, with start-up activity increasing by around

A recent Scottish family law case has challenged the long-standing view that legal fees cannot form part of an interim aliment claim, potentially opening a route to funding legal representation in exceptional divorce cases, write Lucia Clark and Amy Cook. Sometimes significant turning points in the

Geoff Andrews’ Radicals traces the working-class traditions, educational movements and moral values that shaped modern Britain and the Labour Party. This thoughtful review praises the book’s erudition and sense of loss, while questioning its limited attention to nationalism and regional

Douglas McConnell responds to recent remarks by Scottish Greens MSP Q Manivannan, who has been criticised for saying ‘rape is a spectrum’ in a resurfaced podcast clip. The recent controversy over a Scottish Greens comments about rape has, rightly, caused distress. Victims’ organisa

The government’s much awaited Immigration and Asylum Bill includes proposed reforms aimed at strengthening the UK’s modern slavery system which would transform corporate modern slavery statements from effectively being a voluntary compliance measure into a mandatory legal obligation, wri

From ancient sages to contemporary leaders, there is broad agreement that judgement is an indispensable quality a person must possess for making good decisions. Even the staunchest AI advocates, who explain all the things which AI already can or will soon do better than humans, emphasise that human

Last month, 120 years to the day after Alfred Dreyfus was finally exonerated by a French court, a statue was unveiled outside the court that cleared him and President Macron announced that July 12 will be an annual national day of commemoration of Dreyfus and the injustice that was inflicted upon hi

Glasgow’s recent rescue of the Commonwealth Games was a remarkable achievement for the city. When Victoria, Australia, withdrew from hosting the event in 2023, Glasgow undertook to deliver the Games – but within a challengingly compressed timescale. For a major international sporting spe

New independent research into the experience of making a wills and trusts enquiry with Edinburgh law firms has found plenty to be positive about, but also suggests firms may be missing opportunities to turn good conversations into new clients, writes Steve Dunn. Law firms spend significant amounts o

A 1540s depiction of a judicial combat in Augsburg in 1409, between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and Theodor Haschenacker. Dornsberg's sword broke early in the duel, but he proceeded to kill Haschenacker with his own sword. In December 1984 an Edinburgh post office was robbed at gunpoint by two mas

From Guatemala, a Central American country whose recent past is marked by war and volatility, comes a highly readable history of coercive adoptions and forced disappearance of children. Guatemala’s history and politics might not be mainstream knowledge in the UK, though brief glimpses into the

As Scottish schools return this month – several weeks of those south of the border, and as the UK government kickstarts its ‘Consultation on Employment Rights for Unpaid Carers’ – we at Clyde & Co have been considering how our colleagues’ parenting and caring roles

The UK government would be acting consistently with its election manifesto commitments, domestic growth agenda, and international climate commitments by approving the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields, writes Chris Sawyer. A consultation on the proposed development at the Jackdaw site closed l

Unless you have been living under a rock, you can’t fail to have noticed the rise of the e-scooter. Like a plague of locusts, they have invaded our streets, pavements, even communities, bringing with them accidents, collisions and anti-social behaviour. A favourite of the balaclava toting teen

Please note a preliminary point: the title of this book refers to ‘RAF Terror’. The list of abbreviations in the book does not assist the reader with the relevant meaning of ‘RAF’. There is only a brief mention of the full name of the organisation well into the book. &nb