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Weightmans has made three appointments in its Glasgow office. Joanne Farrell joins the firm as a principal associate. She is a specialist defence personal injury solicitor and has joined the firm’s insurance litigation team. Previously at BTO Solicitors LLP for almost 20 years, she brings with

Copycat branding is nothing new; we regularly see it happening where a store sells an own-brand product (usually for a lower price) that very closely resembles a name-brand product. So, where should we draw the line between harmless lookalike and detrimental copycat? Last year, high-end gin company

Solicitor advocate Neil Hay and his team have joined Levy & McRae. Mr Hay brings with him his core legal team of associate solicitor Andrew Seggie and legal team PA Michelle McKinnon from MTM Defence Lawyers.

The Crown Office will not conduct a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the deaths of three people in Loch Lomond last summer. Edina Olahova, 29, her son Raza Haris Ali, 9, and friend Mohammad Asim Raza, 39, all drowned on July 24.

CMS has partnered with Young Enterprise (YE) Scotland to extend enterprise and financial education throughout Scotland’s schools and colleges. Under a joint arrangement, CMS will provide pro bono legal support to YE Scotland. In addition, CMS will explore ways it can contribute to the charity&

Specialist online courts should be established to tackle domestic abuse cases, it has been recommended. The Virtual Trials National Project board has issued its report on the piloting of virtual summary trials. The board, led by Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle of Grampian, Highland and Islands, suggest

What could have been done better in response to the Covid-19 pandemic? Has any aspect of the response broken Scots criminal law? Are there any circumstances in which compensation should be paid to those who have suffered the disease or to relatives of those who have passed because of it? Though

The husband of a deceased woman who had an accident in her workplace several months before her death has had an action in the All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court dismissed on the ground that he had no title to sue. John Riddell, the executor dative of his late wife Valerie Riddell, argued tha

Women have been banned from the front seats of trucks in Uganda after being branded a road hazard. Ugandan authorities have claimed male truck drivers are liable to be distracted by women wearing revealing clothing in their driver's cabin, Kenya's The Star reports.

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Two cases against the Crown Office over the malicious prosecution scandal are ongoing, MSPs have heard. Compensation and legal costs are now in excess of £40 million, a figure auditors described as “significant".

Legislation to end the harmful practice of setting ‘glue traps’ is to be brought forward by the Scottish government in order to protect animal welfare. The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission (SAWC) undertook a review of the use of glue traps and concluded that there are significant anima

Craig Murray has been given permission to appeal his conviction for breaching a court order by publishing information on his blog which enabled jigsaw identification of the women in the Alex Salmond case. The former diplomat spent four months in prison after being given an eight-month sentence.

Two members of Dundee Law School have been appointed by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) to a review body.  Dr Thomas Giddens and Professor Colin Reid are the only members from Scotland among the 22 members of the advisory group which will be reviewing the Benchmark State

Harper Macleod has been appointed as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Debt Resolution Services framework. CCS is an executive agency of the UK government, and is the UK’s largest public procurement organisation. It supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial va