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The General Court of the European Union has sided with Louis Vuitton in a long-running dispute over its canvas chequerboard print, The Fashion Law reports. The mark had been registered in 2008 with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) but in 2015 it was challenged by an individual

A feminist group whose song became a global anthem for those protesting violence against women is being sued for allegedly inciting violence against police officers. A Rapist in Your Path, also called The Rapist Is You, became a global hit after Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis uploaded a video

A citizen of El Salvador who claimed that he would be a victim of organised crime if he was deported from the UK has failed to petition for a judicial review of the decision to deport him. The petitioner, known as DY, sought review of a decision by the Upper Tribunal not to allow him to appeal

All too often our coverage of fatal accident inquiries in Scotland is centred upon their non-occurrence rather than the lessons to be learned from them. A freedom of information request made last year revealed that there were 127 outstanding FAIs at the time of the inquiry. There has yet to be one i

The Scottish government is consulting on raising the age at which a young person can be referred to a children’s hearing from 16 to 18. Currently, only 16 and 17-year-olds who are already within the children’s hearing system can be referred or have their order continued until they are 18

An independently-chaired task force will start work this summer to consider whether the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Scottish SPCA) should be given extra powers to investigate wildlife crime, the rural affairs minister has confirmed ahead of MSPs’ final vote on pr

Defendants will not be able to advance the legal defence that their partner was accidentally killed in a "sex game gone wrong" under new domestic abuse legislation being considered by MPs. Campaign group We Can't Consent To This has identified at least 60 women from the UK who have been killed in re

The Herald has published an obituary of Liz Wilson who passed away at the age of 73. One of Scotland’s youngest ever solicitors, she became a tribunal chairwoman, as well as a tutor at Dundee University and a professional reflexologist.

CMS has announced the launch of #CMSBuildingBetterFutures Hub, a resource aimed at supporting young people in secondary school education in light of challenges brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.  #CMSBuildingBetterFutures Hub, believed to be the first-of-its-kind in the UK legal sector,

Rural affairs minister Mairi Gougeon has announced plans for research into the use of empathy training, which could form part of community sentences imposed on people convicted of certain offences against animals.

Anderson Strathern has become the first 'gold #ROCKME partner' at the £63 million HALO Kilmarnock enterprise and innovation centre.

Benjamin Bestgen gives readers an introduction to feminist legal philosophy in his latest primer. See his last one here. It might not surprise readers that the majority of philosophical and legal works (including laws) over the course of human history to date were created by men. The reasons for thi

A man has been fined €500 (around £450) for deliberately farting in front of police officers. The police force in Vienna, Austria, took to social media to defend their decision after the news was broken by a local paper.

The Outer House of the Court of Session has granted interim orders in an action for defamation brought by an energy company against a blogger from Stornoway that require him to remove certain blog posts as well as restricting the content of future posts. British Gas Trading Ltd and it

UK government officials have asked the Law Commission of England and Wales to help them design a lawful system for charging employment tribunal fees, according to reports.