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The Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland is hosting a webinar on its work later this month. The aim of ERCS is to support individuals and communities to use their rights to protect the environment, tackle climate change, and improve local biodiversity and greenspaces for health and wellbeing.

Tue, 22 June 202116:00 – 17:00 BST Calling all secondary school teachers! Would you like to bring Legal Studies to your school’s curriculum? Is your school already planning to bring Legal Studies to the curriculum in 2021/22?

An Austrian soldier has been convicted of glorifying Nazism after tattooing a swastika on his testicles. The 29-year-old was sentenced to 19 months in prison this week after being found guilty of glorifying Nazism and possessing illegal firearms.

A journalist and former diplomat who was found to be in contempt of court for publishing material relating to the trial of former First Minister Alex Salmond has been refused permission by the High Court of Justiciary to appeal his case to the Supreme Court. Craig Murray was found to

The range of new laws introduced to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic have not been subject to adequate parliamentary scrutiny, with government guidance and ministerial statements often failing to set out the law clearly, misstating the law or laying claim to legal requirements that did not exist, accord

Michael Gove broke the law by giving a contract to a communications agency run by long time associates of his and Dominic Cummings, the High Court has ruled. Lawyers for the Good Law Project accused Mr Cummings of wanting work to be given to a company run by his friends.

The City of Edinburgh Council has admitted it was wrong to cancel a Christian event on the basis of the beliefs of the keynote speaker.  Destiny Ministries’ action against the council has ended with the council acknowledging it acted unlawfully and had discriminated against the Christian

Ongoing emergency coronavirus legislation could be extended for another six months, but it is still unclear whether measures to prevent evictions will be included. The temporary powers were originally introduced in the spring of last year, but are due to expire in September.

Balfour and Manson has bolstered its family law team in Aberdeen with the appointment of Katie Albiston from Taggart Meil Mathers. Ms Albiston has worked with Avenue Aberdeen, which provides advice on family mediation, child contact and counselling, and previously volunteered with both ChildLine and

A woman who lost her job after she said people cannot change their biological sex has succeeded in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Maya Forstater, 47, had tweeted on gender recognition, in consequence of which her contract at the think tank Center for Global Development (CGD) was n

A solicitor who prepared false invoices for non-existent work in order to steal more than £12,500 from clients' accounts has pleaded guilty to embezzlement. Louise Sutherland, 60, took the money while employed at Graeme Murray & Co Solicitors in Aberdeen in an attempt to save her husband's

Addleshaw Goddard’s corporate team in Scotland has advised the majority shareholders of Livingston-based lighting innovators, designLED, on its sale to Faurecia – an automotive technology company. The acquisition of designLED will bolster Faurecia’s offering in display technol

Time is running out for any delegates who have not yet registered for the Conveyancing Conference, part of the Scots Law Summer Series which will take place online on Wednesday 16 June.

In the wake of World Environment Day 2021, Burges Salmon has announced it has re-partnered with conservation charity Trees for Life for another year, a collaboration that complements the firm’s climate commitments and sees it investing in a rewilding, carbon offsetting project focused on the S

An elderly nun faces up to 40 years in prison after embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Catholic school to fuel her gambling habit. Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper, 79, has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $835,000 from St James Catholic School in Torrance, California, over the course o