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Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information Commissioner, discusses data extraction from phones as the rules catch up with reality.  There are few regulators that have as broad a role as the ICO, with our data protection work particularly impacting every business and public authority.

A draft law has been approved by the Spanish government that would let children as young as 14 change their legal gender with no medical diagnosis. The bill has been prepared by the country's Equality Ministry, led by the left-wing Podemos party, and would permit people 16 and over to change their n

A man has been arrested after jumping out of a passenger jet during take-off, injuring himself in the process. The man, who has not been named, apparently decided to make a late exit from the flight after an on-board altercation.

A judicial review petition by the General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation challenging a decision of the Deputy Chief Constable of Police Scotland to institute misconduct proceedings against him has been refused by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Calum S

The UK's data protection regime has been given a pass by the EU, for now. Paul Motion explains the details. The European Commission has adopted two data “adequacy decisions” for the UK. This action resolves a major concern after Brexit, that whilst personal data flowing from the UK to th

Members of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) are invited to respond to a survey on their preferred option for the distribution of the remainder of the Scottish government's resilience fund. The government, which has paid out £2.3m of the £9.5m fund, has sought the opini

A group established by four Scottish law firms to benefit clients and lawyers by creating free, standardised template documents to streamline the process for buying, selling and leasing property in Scotland is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The Property Standardisation Group (PSG) launched in 200

Iskander Fernandez, partner at law firm BLM, discusses HMRC's role in leading over 12,000 interventions into the use of UK government Covid support schemes. Research by BLM into the various coronavirus-related fiscal support schemes revealed that at the close of Q1 2021, HM Revenue & Customs (HM

Anderson Strathern was recently reappointed as legal adviser to Crown Estate Scotland, the body that manages a wide range of assets in Scotland. Crown Estate Scotland recently announced that it expects gross revenue from 2021-22 to be approximately £26 million, due to an increase in offshore w

BBM Solicitors has announced the promotion of Ewan Hazelton to senior solicitor in its commercial litigation and insolvency team in Edinburgh and welcomes Thomas Holligan as solicitor in the same team following completion of his traineeship at BBM . The firm has also welcomed Vajiha Ali to its

The average residential property price in Scotland has increased by 92 per cent since the start of house price data from Registers of Scotland (RoS) in 2003-04. The latest statistics from Registers of Scotland’s Property Market Report 2020-21 show that the average price of a residential proper

Businesses could soon face a deluge of legal actions brought against them over greenhouse gas emissions due to advances in climate science, according to experts. In excess of 1,500 legal actions have already been initiated against fossil fuel companies which have played a major role in carbon emissi

Pinsent Masons has unveiled targets to cut absolute carbon emissions by a minimum of 50 per cent by 2030, as it continues to reduce its environmental impact. The firm’s targets, which are among the first law firm targets to be verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), commit to

What have a drum, a sign and a door knocker got to do with land ownership in Scotland? All is revealed in the next film in the National Museums Scotland's Collecting the Present series, which explores objects that document community buyouts in the islands of Eigg and Ulva.

A wanted man was arrested after giving police officers a fake name – which happened to be the name of another wanted man. Ernest McBride was arrested in Mexico after giving his name to police as Brian Andrews, who is wanted in Florida in connection with a fatal road traffic collision.