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Ledingham Chalmers is hosting a free webinar this month for professionals. If you’re in professional services — perhaps you’re an accountant, financial advisor, surveyor, consultant or solicitor — grab a coffee and join the firm for an informal chat about the issues that matt

What's in a legal system? Benjamin Bestgen supplies the principal ingredients. See his last primer here. Last week’s article ended with lawyer and author Christopher Brown’s suggestion that fantasy authors could do more to make law and legal systems an explicit focus point in their works

A surprisingly considerate bank robber left and came back after he was reminded to wear a face mask when walking into his target. The man approached a bank clerk on Saturday afternoon but was told he needed to wear a mask as a Covid-19 precaution.

In this article, Mark Conway describes his experience as a party litigant. Mr Conway was convicted and imprisoned in 2017 after defrauding Dundee City Council of more than £1 million, due to a gambling addiction. He represented himself at the High Court after his case was referred to the

The Inner House of the Court of Session has ordered a transport firm to make reparations to a man who was on one of their buses when it left the road and rolled over, after the company was originally assolzied by the Outer House. The pursuer and reclaimer, Allen Woodhouse, argued that

Guidance for Scottish solicitors on publishing pricing, which aims to help consumers better understand the cost of legal advice and services, is due to come into effect in January 2021. Under the new price transparency guidance, firms will publish indicative price information about their services. T

Dundee solicitor Ross Paton, described as the life and soul of any party, has died aged 71. Born James Kinross Paton but known as Ross, he died suddenly on October 13 at his adopted home of Insh.

A Holyrood committee has called on the Scottish government to set out how it intends to address the "gendered" impact of the pandemic while also having regard to "intersectional" issues. As part of the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee pre-budget scrutiny, MSPs heard

David Rennie has joined Mansefield Investments as legal counsel. Mr Rennie, former managing partner of Stronachs, joins the family investment firm as it explores opportunities in the energy sector which have the potential to reduce carbon emissions and accelerate the use of electrification.

An updated volume of the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia, edited by a member of the Faculty of Advocates, has been published. In the Health and Safety at Work volume, Dominic Scullion describes recent statutory developments and examines recent case law from across the UK.

The corporate team at Shoosmiths has advised Extreme E in securing additional funding. Extreme E is an international off-road racing series that brings electric racing to remote parts of the world to highlight climate change challenges.

Professor Burkhard Schafer is to lead a research strand on governance and regulation in the decentralised digital economy. His work will be undertaken within a new £10 million research centre that aims to reshape the future of the digital economy with the help of artificial intelligence and bl

"Constitutional principle and the rule of law" is the subject of a lecture delivered by the Lord President. In this year's Lord Rodger Memorial Lecture, Lord Carloway discusses "constitutional principle and the rule of law".

This is National Pro Bono Week which provides a useful opportunity to think about when and how lawyers provide legal services to those in need. The process of going through a legal dispute, whether that is civil or criminal, is a stressful and complex one for most people even under the best of circu

Three kangaroos have been seized by police during a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Canada. As part of a major operation across southern Ontario, police recovered nearly €100 million in cannabis, guns, crossbows and "several exotic animals".