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The new Inverness Justice Centre has reached a key milestone as court officials confirmed the building is now wind and watertight.

Advocate member Lynda Brabender QC has been reappointed to the Scottish Civil Justice Council. She will take up the three-year post on 28 September 2019.

Duncan Milne, trainee solicitor at Blackadders, warns that employees secretly recording conversations in the workplace can be guilty of gross misconduct in some cases. Covert recordings are topical at the moment. Boris Johnson was recorded with his girlfriend Carrie Symonds in their home under unple

A businessman has been fined £1,000 at Selkirk Sheriff Court for assaulting a Galashiels solicitor in his office. Malcolm Crawford, 53, was found guilty of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and seizing a solicitor by the body at the offices of Iain Smith and Partners on 11 February,

The Supreme Court will rule next week on an appeal from the Court of Session centred on whether a farm business is entitled to deduct the VAT it paid on the acquisitions of single farm payment entitlement (SFPE). The respondent is a taxpaying company which carried on a farming business in Aberdeensh

Bailiffs in England and Wales are to be required to wear body cameras to ensure that debts are collected fairly and safely without intimidation of vulnerable consumers. The Ministry of Justice said the vast majority of bailiffs, who enforce debts including council tax debt and unpaid debts owed to i

Google is set to pay $11 million without admission of liability to settle claims from 227 people who say they were denied jobs with the search giant because of their age. The settlement, which has not yet been approved by the judge in the case, will bring the legal battle to a close after more than

A pair of tourists visiting Venice were fined and asked to leave the city after making coffee on the steps of the Rialto Bridge. The two backpackers, 32 and 35, fell foul of the city's new public order laws, which seek to address problems associated with the city's high levels of tourism through mea

A teacher who was “excluded” from a school after raising a personal injury action against a Scottish local authority following a fall at work, and then sought damages for a “depressive illness” he sustained as a result, has had his claim for “psychiatric injury” d

Shepherd and Wedderburn has opened an office in Ireland to ensure continuity of service to clients across the EU post-Brexit. The office, in the heart of Dublin’s business district, will allow the firm’s lawyers to continue to support clients with their European legal requirements - incl

Morton Fraser has recorded like-for-like revenue growth of £22 million while profit has declined by 12 per cent to less than £12m. In the last twelve months, the firm divested its residential property offering while investing in specialists across a number of its teams.

The Scotsman has published an obituary of William Denys Cathcart Andrews CBE, WS, solicitor and past president of the Law Society of Scotland, who passed away on 1 July 2019 at the age of 88. "Denys Andrews was one of the foremost Scottish solicitors of his generation. A past president of the Law So

Legislation to introduce an opt-out system of organ and tissue donation for deceased donors will come into force in Autumn 2020. The new law will add to the package of measures already in place which have led to significant increases in donation and transplantation over the last decade.

New legislation aims to tackle the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), also known as confidentiality clauses, in the workplace – including those being used to cover up sexual harassment, racial discrimination and assault. NDAs can be used by businesses for a number of legitimate reason

Community land buying powers have not been used since they were brought in a year ago, prompting claims the law is not “fit for purpose”. The Scottish government confirmed to The Press and Journal that there have been no applications by groups seeking to avail themselves of the law.