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A young clarinet player has been awarded over £200,000 in damages after suing his ex-girlfriend for sabotaging his scholarship. Eric Abramovitz was offered a full scholarship from Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, worth about £38,000 a year, but the email was intercepted by h

A recent decision by the Inner House of the Court of Session held that Scottish courts have the ability to grant protective orders against an employer’s assets even where claims have been brought against them in an Employment Tribunal, write Eleanor Mannion and Laurie Anderson. The Case

Dear Editor, The article Man Sentenced for Salmon Poaching brought a memory back from the distant past. In the 1980s I found myself working in Selkirk and appearing in the sheriff court there every week.

In the case of Kirkwood v Thelem Insurance, 2023, the Inner House of the Court of Session shone a light on the recoverability of English solicitors’ costs for a litigation conducted in Scotland before the Court of Session, write Mark Hastings and Gavin Aitken.

In a bizarre mix-up a court in Egypt sentenced a four year old boy to life in prison on a number of charges – including murder. Ahmed Mansour Karni was handed the term after being sentenced in absentia for offences he allegedly committed two years ago – when he was two.

Paul Motion Paul Motion considers the new law on unjustified threats in relation to intellectual property actions.

A mayor has mocked a fine imposed on authorities for appointing too many women. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was told she had broken the law by naming too many women to various posts.

Taiwanese officials are calling on people to stop changing their name to Salmon. The situation, dubbed "salmon chaos" by local media came about after Japanese chain Sushiro ran a promotion which ended on Thursday offering free food to any customer and five of their friends – if they changed th

Lauren Rae and Ryan McCuaig outline the coming defamation regime and its advantages. The Scottish Parliament recently passed the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill which will introduce the most significant changes to the law of defamation in recent history. The new law has yet to c

Susie Mountain takes a look at a new report on cohabitation. The Scottish Law Commission has published its Report on Cohabitation. The report considers how the existing law governing the rights of cohabitants on separation might be revised and follows a lengthy consultation process with solicitors,

A man who was arrested in Wales refused to appear in court, complaining he could not understand the Welsh accent. Dwaine Campbell, 25, a drug dealer, was arrested in Aberystwyth in possession of 51 wraps of heroin which he admitted he intended to supply.

Jennifer Connell A woman in Manhattan who sued her 12-year-old nephew after he jumped into her arms as he welcomed her to his eighth birthday causing her to fall and break her wrist has been awarded nothing.

A language group has intervened in a copyright infringement case to appeal for Klingon to be recognised as a living language. The Language Creation Society, which supports and encourages the creation of artificial languages, has filed an amicus brief in a copyright case in the U.S. District Court fo

A popular parish priest who took part in an Easter parade dressed as Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner and who simulated sex with males dressed as Bunny Girls has apologised to his parishioners for his “misguided” behaviour. Father Juan Carlos Martínez, 40, dressed up to take part in his Galician t

Donald MacKinnon Donald MacKinnon, director of legal services at employment law firm Law At Work, writes on an important issue for employers in the new year.