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Charles Livingstone and Douglas Waddell look at the recent phenomenon of crowdfunding litigation. Litigation can be expensive, time-consuming and open-ended. As anyone who has ever pursued or defended a court action knows, it’s impossible to guarantee how long the process will take or how much

A profoundly deaf man has served as a juror in England and Wales in what is believed to be a legal first. Matthew Johnston, 54, served on three trials at Blackfriars Crown Court over a two-week period, The Guardian reports.

A judge has questioned why the courts require facts to be "squeezed into a Moorov straitjacket" instead of recognising a more general principle admitting similar fact evidence where relevance is established. Lord Glennie made the obiter comments in a judgment allowing the appeal against conviction o

A motion has been submitted asking the Court of Session to suspend Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request that Parliament be suspended. The legal action is being taken by a cross-party group of more than 70 MPs and peers, with the support of the Good Law Project.

Scotland is considering the creation of a dedicated sexual offences court, a judge has said. Lord Matthews said in a speech at the Third International Advocacy Conference in Nottingham that a judge-led sexual offences review group is considering the measure.

Harper Macleod has announced record results this year, with a 9.5 per cent rise in turnover to £29 million and an eight per cent rise in profits to £11m. The figures for the financial year 2018/19, which represent eight consecutive years of profit growth, come as the firm prepares to com

Support has been given by the Faculty of Advocates to adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law – and for it to be done sooner rather than later. In response to a Scottish government consultation on incorporating the UNCRC into domestic law,

A legal bid to stop Serco’s eviction of asylum seekers in Glasgow will return to the Court of Session today as an appeal into a ruling that the housing provider’s lock-change policy was not unlawful gets under way. Home Office contractor Serco was forced to temporarily pause it

Turnover at Blackadders Wealth Management LLP has risen by £74,000 to £1.8m for the year to the end of March 31. The firm is owned by Blackadders LLP's directors and provides financial planning and investment management advice.

The Faculty of Advocates is launching a new diary and case management system, which will have benefits for advocates and instructing solicitors. The system, Lex, allows advocates and their clerks to better manage the full life cycle of an instruction, from initial meeting or telephone call to conclu

The UK's advertising regulator has ordered the Home Office to withdraw a "misleading" advert for the post-Brexit EU settlement scheme. In a ruling published today, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the radio advert gives listeners the impression that a passport or ID card is the only id

Russia violated the rights of an auditor charged with organised tax evasion who died in pre-trial detention in November 2009, judges in the European Court of Human Rights have unanimously ruled.

The first recipient of a scholarship which commemorates the life and work of leading Scottish lawyer Kirk Murdoch has been named. Demi Scorfield, 20, a law student at the University of Edinburgh, will be supported throughout her third and fourth year undergraduate course and will be offered summer i

A team of ten intrepid fundraisers from the Glasgow office of sister law firms Irwin Mitchell and Ascent, has scaled the dizzy heights of The Cobbler near Loch Lomond, raising around £2,500 to support the Teenage Cancer Trust (Scotland).

A judge in Mexico has granted two people the right to use cocaine recreationally in the first ever ruling of its kind. Both claimants were granted the right to "possess, transport and use cocaine" but not sell it, Mexico United Against Crime (MUCD) said.