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Scottish Legal News is inviting readers to vote on whether they support lawyers who have signed a declaration to withhold their professional services in respect of certain cases associated with climate change. We presented two different views on the declaration. The first, in support of it, is by la

Department store John Lewis has succeeded in a court battle with an author who claimed that the retailer had copied one of her designs for its Christmas advert. The retailer's 2019 advert featured a friendly green dragon named Excitable Edgar.

A conspiracy theorist who claimed the Manchester Arena bombing was staged is facing legal proceedings brought by survivors of the 2017 atrocity. Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve are seeking an injunction and damages amid claims that Richard D. Hall defamed and harassed them, The Guardian reports.

Craig Pike has been promoted to head of Ledingham Chalmers' private client team. Mr Pike joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 2005, qualifying in 2007, and was promoted to partner in 2015.

Anderson Strathern's corporate investment team has reported a record first quarter in 2023, with a 58.8 per cent increase in client investments compared to the same period in 2022. The number of deals completed more than tripled, partly due to increased instructions from existing and new clients.

A researcher from the University of Dundee has co-edited a new book exploring how to tell Scotland’s history in the context of calls to decolonise institutions and curricula.

Old CollegeWed 3 May 202317:30 - 20:00 Join Edinburgh Law School for an Alumni & Friends Discussion with Professor Stephen Tierney, professor of constitutional theory, and Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam, senior lecturer in public law and human rights, to explore the issue of constitutional unsettlemen

Private client lawyer Alison McKay has been promoted from director to partner at Lindsays, having joined the firm’s Glasgow-based team only two years ago. She is one of six lawyers whose promotions have been announced today – with one director and four more associates also taking up new

Researchers have found that defendants who don’t “swear by Almighty God” when in court run a higher risk of being found guilty by jurors who themselves swear by God. In countries such as Britain and Ireland court witnesses must declare they will provide truthful evidence, but those

University of Aberdeen law students have triumphed for a third consecutive year in the Scottish finals of an international competition that pits the country’s best budding negotiators against each other. Sulaiman Yusuf, 23, and Lilac Cabbad, 26, battled it out against teams from Edinburgh, Gla

The Inner House of the Court of Session has upheld an interlocutor directing the liquidator of a farming business to sell a plot of land to an agricultural tenant after a reclaiming motion was raised by the landlords. Appellants Joseph and Donalda Sweeney, who had been involved in a long-running dis

Efforts by businesses to combat modern-day slavery are stagnating, according to an analysis of UK government data by The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), with the number of modern slavery statements submitted to the government registry for 2022 trailing markedly.

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign has scored a major victory in its fight to win compensation for 1950s-born women affected by short notice changes to their state pension age. The group launched a judicial review in the High Court earlier this year – raising £12

Police Scotland has been ordered to explain why it concluded that there was no crime committed in the case of a former kirk minister involved in defrauding three brothers out of £1 million. The force has been told to review its lack of action by the Police Investigations & Review Commissio

Albania has accused UK authorities of persecuting one of the country's nationals who was detained on suspicion of dealing cannabis – which turned out to be harmless tea leaves. Agim Agaj, 53, was arrested, strip-searched and detained for 15 hours after police in Dorset stopped his van and spot