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A comprehensive ban on glue traps comes into force next month. Glue traps do not distinguish between target and non-target animals, and any creature that crosses their path can become trapped, meaning other species such as songbirds can suffer prolonged unintended distress or death.
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Michael Sheridan has been welcomed to andersonbain in a consultancy capacity. Mr Sheridan has spent the past 50 years running his own firm, Sheridans Solicitors. Alongside being secretary of the Scottish Law Agents Society, he is a tribunal judge and has run the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasg
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Holmes Mackillop Solicitors has appointed Lauren Brown as a paralegal in its Giffnock office. Ms Brown qualified as a conveyancing paralegal in 2023 and brings over 15 years’ experience in residential property work, with a particular focus on high‑volume remortgage transactions.
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Dr Jade Kouletakis, lecturer in Law at Abertay University, has been nominated by the Law Society of Scotland to join its Intellectual Property Law Sub-Committee as an academic expert. Dr Kouletakis, whose membership will begin on 1 July for a first term of three years, has taught intellectual proper
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Holmes Mackillop has appointed Aidan Dunn, Sam Hamilton, Olivia McCue and Katie Maguire as trainee solicitors. Mr Dunn joins the firm’s Glasgow office dispute resolution and litigation department, supporting a wide range of matters, including employment law, family law, commercial and debt rec
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W&AS Bruce has appointed Omar Mohammed as partner. Based in the firm’s Broxburn office, Mr Mohammed heads W&AS Bruce’s new build conveyancing team and has built a strong reputation for delivering expert advice and exceptional client service across all aspects of residential prope
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Stronachs LLP has announced three promotions across its corporate, dispute resolution and private client teams. Euan Munro, who is part of the firm’s corporate team and Claire Stewart, from the dispute resolution team, have both been promoted to senior solicitor. Raiya Law, from the firm&rsquo
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In the latest episode of the University of Aberdeen’s School of Law Podcast, Neil Weightman speaks with Dr Rossana Ducato and Professor Dinusha Mendis about deepfakes, synthetic media, and the legal challenges created by rapidly developing AI technologies. What are deepfakes, and why are they
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A crime podcast from the University of Dundee has stolen the show at a national awards ceremony. Inside Forensic Science has been named Most Outstanding Indie Podcast at the True Crime Podcast Awards.
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Yvonne Evans has been promoted to head of law at the University of Dundee. Ms Evans joined Dundee Law School in 2013 and is famed for making tax law a highly popular elective subject. She is a qualified solicitor and and specialises in trusts, succession, charity law and tax law.
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An Aberdeen University academic has won a prestigious tax law award.
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The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) has successfully obtained a four-figure settlement for a client in connection with a consumer services dispute. Prior to ALP’s engagement in the matter, the client had contracted with a company to have some roofing and rendering services carried out to their prop
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A senior JPMorgan Chase executive has been fired after being identified as the woman seen in a viral video emptying and apparently taking a commemorative New York Knicks-themed rubbish bin.
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Two people were arrested after police discovered suspected narcotics inside a bag labelled “definitely not a bag full of drugs”. A detective with the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office in the US state of Kentucky was investigating a suspicious vehicle parked in an employee area of a lo
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A small town in Quebec has become the first municipality in Canada to formally recognise trees as living beings with rights of their own. The council of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, west of Montreal, unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that trees are entitled to protection, including rights to life, n
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A US police department has retired a security robot less than a year after deploying it in a public parking garage after it failed to make any arrests or issue a single citation. Police in Dublin, Ohio, introduced the Knightscope K5 robot, known as “DubBot”, to patrol the Rock Cress Park
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An environmental campaigner and lawyer who organised a volunteer clean-up of a polluted river is being investigated by the Environment Agency over allegations that the work was carried out without the necessary permits. Paul Powlesland, founder of the River Roding Trust, led volunteers in removing l
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