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In a ruling affecting all UK local authorities, the English Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a French citizen with pre-settled status (PSS) under the EU Settlement Scheme. The appellant was deemed ineligible for housing assistance by an English District Council based on being a person from

The latest announcement in the incredible delay into implementing alternative business structures is scrutinised by Brian Inkster. The Law Society of Scotland has announced that they were deferring work on Licensed Legal Service Providers (LLSP), commonly referred to as Alternative Business Structur

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has announced an expansion of a corporate self-reporting and civil settlement programme to cover a range of offences under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 and other failure to prevent offences concerning bribery and facili

Perhaps the Baltic states, those around the sea there, in recent decades have not been given as full attention as they ought to have. International politics have now changed everything. The core arguments by Oliver Moody are, first, that these states have been forced to develop the kind of resilienc

Cameron Wong McDermott (lecturer in social change, University of Glasgow) and Nicole Marshall (GO Justice Centre manager) write about the university's collaboration with The Marie Trust.  At the Glasgow Open Justice Centre (GO Justice), part of the University of Glasgow’s School of Law, w

Pinsent Masons has launched an Armed Forces Network (AFN) to support veterans, reservists and service families, underlining the firm’s reputation as a supportive and inclusive employer, writes Iain Brown. As an army reservist, it is an issue close to my heart and I was delighted a proposal to

When we spoke recently, Ben Kemp had been in post as the new CEO of the Law Society of Scotland for less than two weeks. On his appointment, he said he would “hit the ground running” and he was already making good on that commitment. “We are at a pivotal moment for Scotland’s

SLN’s Alastair Tibbs visits Govan Law Centre and its inspirational staff.

A recently reported judgment of the Outer House of the Court of Session has underscored the importance of compliance with the duty of full and frank disclosure (often referred to as the duty of candour) in ex parte hearings, write Ross Webb and Charlie MacKay. In May 2025, PE Limited and others (the

The first reported decision in the UK on the central plank of the rules that allocate jurisdiction in divorce cases within the UK was issued by Lady Tait on 22 August, writes Rachael Kelsey. The decision dealt with whether it should be the Scottish or English courts divorcing the couple – and

Small scale, unsubsidised, borne along on a wave of bookish enthusiasm, the ‘Writing Worth Reading’ cluster of 12 events at the Royal Scots Club can hardly be described as a competitor to the big literary beast which, not long past, was licking its wounds in a venue oddly described as th

The vaults of the Antwerp Diamond Centre were thought to be impregnable until, on February 15, 2003, a gang of professional thieves made off with a haul of diamonds worth over £100 million – none have ever been recovered. Patient planning and stunning ingenuity allowed the gang to loot h

When Jamila Archibald was named the Law Society of Scotland’s In-House Rising Star earlier this year, then-president Susan Murray was glowing in her endorsement. Ms Archibald had, she said, impressed the judges not just with her ability to “deal with cross-jurisdictional legal queries wh

AI has become a topic that some people in business simply do not want to talk about, do not want to read about, and don’t really want to understand until it all feels like it has “settled down” a bit. For that reason, the ongoing legal action from Disney and Universal against AI pl

With the Scottish government’s Housing Bill moving through Holyrood, one question keeps coming up in conversations with landlords: is it still worth it? Nicky Lloyd, head of lettings at ESPC, considers the bill. The private rented sector in Scotland has always played a vital role in providing