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LGBT+ charities have launched an appeal against the Charity Commission's decision to award charitable status to an organisation they say seeks to "roll back legal protections for trans people". The LGB Alliance, which opposes "new ideologies conflating biological sex with the notion of gender identi

An employment solicitor is calling for greater recognition of menopause in the workplace.  Liam Entwistle, employment law specialist and chairman at Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, believes more employers should take steps to introduce menopause policies, in order to acknowledge the

The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association is hosting a CPD event free to its members. On Wednesday 30 June a distinguished panel will discuss "Trauma Awareness in the Criminal Justice System".

​Two Scottish solicitors have been shortlisted for the Law Society of Scotland In-house Rising Star Award 2021. Anna Ziarkowska, a conveyancing and planning solicitor at Aberdeenshire Council, and Angus Niven, in-house general counsel for media and production company, Boxmedia, have been shortlist

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a webinar entitled Employment Taxes – Latest Updates on 23 June 2021 from 1pm to 2pm. The speaker will be Caroline Colliston, Corporate Tax Partner at DWF. She will discuss:-

Macnabs has raised over £8,000 for Will Aid this year.  The firm has participated in the annual Will Aid Scheme for 10 years now, raising an impressive total of £62,511 to date.

Sex workers in Spain have the right to form their own union, the country's Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The OTRAS union was established in August 2018 but closed its doors three months later following an order of the National Court.

The US military has apologised after accidentally storming an olive oil factory in Bulgaria. US troops carrying out a military exercise on a decommissioned Bulgarian airfield last month entered the wrong building by mistake.

David J Black looks at the shameful treatment of ME/CFS sufferers in the second part of his medico-legal series. Read part one here. Before entering the realms of Fraser v NICE one or two other factors have to be considered. The first was the role of the generality of a UK media which was almost ent

A recipient of support payments under the Social Care Self-Directed Support (Scotland) Act 2013 has failed in his challenge of a reduction in support hours by the health board responsible for paying for that support. Andrew Lennon argued that NHS Highland had acted unlawfull

Lawyers have availed themselves of the emergency coronavirus legislation to enable an expert witness to give evidence remotely amid an ongoing debate on whether evidence in High Court cases should be given remotely at all. At a trial in the High Court in Glasgow, the defendant was accused of as

DWF is to move to smaller premises in Glasgow to reflect the working pattern that has emerged over the course of the pandemic, The Lawyer reports. The team will move from 110 Queen Street to the eighth floor of The Sentinel, which has recently been refurbished, but will temporarily be based at 9 Geo

Lesley Larg has become the first female managing partner of Thorntons. Ms Larg, an IP specialist, takes over from Craig Nicol, who served as managing partner for 10 years, six of which were as joint managing partner with Scott Milne.

Anderson Strathern has made a trio of senior appointments, with Gillian Harkness-McKinlay, Chris Devlin and James McMillan taking on director roles at the firm.  Ms Harkness-McKinlay joins from Burness Paull and becomes director, public sector and charities; Mr Devlin joins from Shepherd and We

Burness Paull has appointed insolvency lawyer Allana Sweeney in response to the continued growth of its restructuring and insolvency practice. Over the past 12 months the firm has taken lead roles in the insolvency/restructuring processes of high-profile businesses such as Premier Oil, Arcadia, Pizz