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A recent Sheriff Court decision has reminded employers that, when arguing an employee was contributory negligent for their accident, clear evidence that the employee was appropriately trained can be extremely useful, write Alison McAteer and Rebecca Neilson. The court ruled in Paul Farley v The Scot

The Trusts, Fiduciaries and Executries Bar Group (TrustBar) will present a seminar on Thursday 23rd March 2023 in the Royal Northern and University Club, 9 Albyn Place, Aberdeen, AB10 1YE. Chaired by Terra Firma Chambers’ Gordon Watt, the event will feature three talks by distinguished ad

A new paper launched by the Scottish Land Commission aims to stimulate discussion on the ways communities can benefit from land use change and investment. The Scottish Land Commission’s Community benefits from investment in natural capital discussion paper details how investment in natural cap

Aberdeen University's School of Law hosted two Taiwanese scholars as part of its Visiting Researchers Programme. The School of Law hosted Yea-Jen Tseng, professor of international law at the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and Hsin-Chih Chen, professor at the Department of Poli

A chocolate factory has been fined after workers fell into a vat of chocolate and became trapped in it. The Mars Wrigley factory in Pennsylvania was fined $14,500 by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) over the "serious" incident, CBS reports.

The theme for this year’s LGBT+ History Month is ‘Behind the Lens’. Its aim is to celebrate LGBT+ people's contribution to the production of film and cinema from ‘behind the lens’. Roles that are celebrated include directors, producers, writers, score composers, artists

An appeal by a child accused of wilful fire-raising against a sheriff’s decision to extend the 12-month time bar in respect of his case, which had yet to proceed to a trial diet, has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Appellant BS was accused of setting fire to the Wester Hailes Edu

New York veterinarians are being flooded with stoned dogs which have eaten discarded cannabis following the legalisation of the drug. Since the legalisation of recreational cannabis in 2021, vets in the city are seeing a huge increase in cases of confused canines in their clinics, according to The N

Gwyneth King recently published an opinion piece claiming to set out some facts about the Equality Act as it relates to gender recognition reform. Almost everything she wrote is wrong, writes Dr Michael Foran. King argues that the default position in the Equality Act is that treating a trans woman a

The recent focus on Britain’s involvement in slavery has obscured the fact that slavery also existed in Scotland, writes Robert Shiels.

Highland Health Board has been fined £180,000 after the death of a vulnerable 78-year-old man due to a lack of nursing staff. NHS Highland pled guilty to a breach of health and safety regulations at Inverness Sheriff Court on 31 January 2023.

Sandra Cassels discusses the recent changes to the law of prescription and their impact on latent defects in construction projects. The expiry of claims for damages in Scotland is regulated by the Prescription & Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973. Section 6 of the 1973 Act provides that claims

Last year, the Scottish housing market broke the record for £1 million+ sales in a year, with 504 transactions passing the landmark price, according to a new report. The figures from property firm Rettie & Co., who were involved in the sale of more than one in five transactions in excess o

Thursday 23 March at 6pm - MacKenzie Building, Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh From 2015 until the pandemic interrupted in 2020, one of the most active charitable endeavours in the Scottish legal world was the Tumbling Lassie appeal, led by a committee of advocates.

Edinburgh Napier’s Lewis Hay and Michael Kerr have won this year’s Lord Jones Moot Competition, becoming the first team from the university to do so. Held at the University of Dundee this month, Napier beat Glasgow’s Emily Provan and Sophia Alvi in the final, which was judged by La