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The UK government's proposed Bill of Rights has been abandoned. The bill was due to have a second reading in Parliament next week. The government is now, however, "reviewing the most effective means to deliver objectives through our legislative agenda" and the Bill of Rights is "unlikely to progress

Burgers will disappear from billboards under a Dutch city's world-first plan to ban meat advertisements from public spaces on climate grounds. Haarlem, a city of roughly 160,000 people to the west of Amsterdam, will ban the ads from buses, shelters and screens from the start of 2024.

Fraser Mitchell has re-joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a partner in the planning team, bringing to the firm and its clients almost two decades’ planning expertise, with a particular focus on the housebuilding, commercial property and clean energy sectors. Mr Mitchell, who trained at Shepherd

A researcher is seeking the help of Scots lawyers who have dealt with Shaken Baby Syndrome.

Paul Brown, principal solicitor of Legal Services Agency, is to retire at the end of this month. Mr Brown, who has been a key figure in the law centre movement for over 40 years, will be familiar to many in the legal profession.

A woman who was diagnosed with ‘Long Covid’ after being dismissed from a senior HR role at a disability charity has lost a disability discrimination claim before the Employment Tribunal on the basis that she was not disabled at the relevant time for the purpose of the application. Gillia

Dentons has published a guide comparing the length of maternity, paternity, adoption and shared leave entitlement and the rates of pay associated with it, across 85 countries. The 'Global Family Leave and Pay Snapshot' can be accessed here. Key insights include:

A man has been jailed for more than four years for the rape of a young woman who was walking home after a night out. Twenty-one-year-old Jeffery Oviasogie, from Aberdeen, attacked his victim as she took a short cut through public gardens in the early hours of the morning.

Brandon Lewis has been appointed as the UK government's new justice secretary by Prime Minister Liz Truss. Mr Lewis, who was previously Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, was elected Conservative MP for Great Yarmouth in 2010 and replaces Dominic Raab.

The 'not proven' verdict is to be abolished, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced in her programme for government. The verdict, one of acquittal, will leave Scots law with a two-verdict system of 'guilty' and 'not guilty'. 

The Ukrainian Bar Association has invited lawyers from around the world to attend an online event exploring the history of war crimes tribunals and what lessons can be applied to the war in Ukraine. Dr Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association (IBA), will be interviewed by

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a record €405 million fine on Instagram after a two-year investigation into its processing of children's data, according to reports. The regulator adopted its final decision last Friday and will publish further details about it next week, a

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a discrimination claim brought by an Irish man who was disqualified from receiving a State pension while he served a prison sentence in the country. The claim was based on Article 14 of the European Convention of Human Rights and concerned the operati

Govan Law Centre (GLC) comments on the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill. We are grateful to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee to be invited to give evidence in person on 20 September 2022 at Holyrood.

The death of one of the world's all-time best dressage horses has sparked a complex legal battle over the ownership of his sperm. Totilas, a former world record holder for top dressage score in grand prix freestyle dressage, died in 2020 — but 120 millilitres of his frozen semen remains in the