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An accountant who was banned from being a company director after he paid trade creditors but not HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) when his business went into liquidation has failed in an appeal against his three-year disqualification. Patrick Bradley was a director of Barhaul (2003) Limited, which went

A city in China has been forced to scrap a scheme that allows members of the public to exchange cigarette butts for tissues, due to abuse. Authorities in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, set up the exchange scheme in a bid to encourage people to pick up cigarette butts, offering a pack of tissues for e

Routine difficulty in meeting statutory time limits in Scotland’s criminal justice system requires urgent attention, the Faculty of Advocates has told MSPs. Other “difficulties” facing the prosecution service were also highlighted by the Faculty in a submission to the Scottish Parliament’s J

A legal academic has qualified the Scottish government's announcement that it will legislate to pardon those convicted for same-sex sexual activity under offences that no longer exist, saying that the pardon will have “no practical effect”, but that the introduction of a "

Sian Aitken Sian Aitken and Graeme MacLeod look at a case confirming the precedence of domestic administration proceedings in a multi-jurisdictional winding-up, marking the first time “modified universalism” has been recognised in Scots law.

Cyber security is one of the biggest issues facing solicitors according to new research commissioned by the Law Society of Scotland. Almost half of survey respondents, at 42 per cent, believed that maintaining cyber security was a challenge.

Orlaith Brogan The latest quarterly report released by Registers of Scotland (RoS) has revealed that there has been a 1.1 per cent decrease in the number of property sales across Scotland.

Clare Foster UK Green Investment plc (GIB) has agreed to part-fund the biggest non-Private Finance Initiative (PFI) streetlighting project in the UK to date.

Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has announced court closures planned by her predecessor will no longer go ahead, our sister publication Irish Legal News reports.

Intel’s appeal against the imposition of a €1.06 billion fine for abuse of its dominant position should be upheld and the case should be referred back to the General Court for a fresh review in the Opinion of an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union. By decision of 13 Ma

John Forsyth John Forsyth discusses the status of evidential child welfare hearings in the wake of LA v JJL.

The average price of a residential property in Scotland has shown an increase of 0.6 per cent during the second quarter of financial year 2016/17 compared with the same period in the previous year, with the highest rise, of 9.7 per cent, being reported in East Renfrewshire, according to figures from

Lawyers have warned MSPs that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is understaffed, overworked and that its fiscal deputes are being forced to take domestic abuse and hate crime cases to trial as a matter of policy rather than because of their professional judgement. In submissions