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The International Bar Association (IBA) and the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) have joined forces to monitor war crime trials in courts in Kyiv and Kharkiv Oblasts from July until the end of September 2023. The monitoring will be delivered as part of the United States Agency for International Devel

Life in plastic, may not always be fantastic… The Barbie® brand faces a trademark dispute just as the blockbuster movie of the year is released, writes Amy McSkimming. The makers behind the Barbie® doll filed a notice of opposition to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office challeng

A High Court judge has ruled in favour of a self-proclaimed "lord" in a peculiar inheritance dispute revolving around the care of a pet parrot. Brett McLean, known as Lord Brett of Hastings, claimed his mother's £300,000 estate was bequeathed to him to look after her beloved Amazonian orange-w

An Afghan judge, known by the pseudonym "Yosra" for safety reasons, has won her two-year legal battle with the Home Office and has been granted permission to enter the UK. Yosra, who has overseen cases involving the Taliban in crimes such as murder and kidnapping, was initially not part of the evacu

Scottish Legal News is saddened to report the death of the well-known Dundee solicitor William G Boyle who died, aged 71, in the early hours of Sunday morning at Ninewells Hospital where he had been receiving treatment for several weeks. Universally known to his legion of Dundonian clients and colle

Pinsent Masons is preparing for further growth with a move to a landmark Glasgow city centre office after signing up to become the first tenants of the £35 million Lucent Building, which is being developed by Orion Capital Managers.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of Derek McLean. Mr McLean, a 43-year-old father of three from Falkirk, died on 22 August 2019 after an accident at the St Enoch Centre in Glasgow

Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May aims to have a quarter of its staff hail from lower social backgrounds within the next decade.

A Scottish woman who instructed English solicitors in what became a Court of Session action arising from an accident she had while on holiday in France has lost an appeal against a lord ordinary’s decision to uphold an auditor’s determination that she could not recover the English solici

English law firm Osborne Clarke has stipulated that to be eligible for a bonus its lawyers must spend a minimum of three days a week at their office desks. The firm's mandate challenges expectations of a remote working future in the post-pandemic world.

Asylum seekers from a “green list” of countries such as Afghanistan and Syria should get the right to work in the UK as soon they make their claim, a think-tank has proposed. Rather than treating all asylum seekers the same from the perspective of their right to work in the UK, the Socia

A proposed class-action lawsuit brought by three artists against three developers of image-generating AI technology has narrowly avoided being thrown out by a US federal judge. Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz launched the landmark proceedings against Stability AI, Midjourney, and Devi

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. El-Sisi pardons Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki and lawyer | Al Jazeera

A serial litterbug who went to great lengths to discard thousands of pages of scrap paper onto a quiet neighbourhood street over a four-year period has been unmasked as a senior police officer. Residents of Greenpoint, in the New York City borough of Brookyln, spent years trying to establish the ide

In July 2018, the Judicial Protocol Regulating Direct Judicial Communications between Scotland, and England and Wales, in Children’s Cases was first published. The 2018 Protocol was accompanied by a helpful and detailed Handbook on family law relating to children in Scotland and in England &am