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A woman who called the police to report someone had broken into her home was left red-faced after cops identified the "burglar" as a Roomba. She told emergency services that she could see shadows moving under her bathroom door - but it turned out to be her robotic vacuum cleaner.

Protections against redundancy for parents returning to work should match those already in place during maternity leave, according to the Law Society of Scotland. In its response to a UK government consultation on pregnancy and maternity discrimination, the Law Society has supported extra redundancy

Scotland's commissioner for children and young people has written to the United Nations, calling on it to intervene over issues including illegal restraint and the strip-searching of under-18s. Bruce Adamson said that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has not yet been incorporated into do

MTM Defence Lawyers has appointed solicitor Sophie Russell to its Edinburgh office. Ms Russell will be working alongside solicitor-advocate Neil Hay to service MTM’s ever-growing private client caseload in the capital. MTM has seen a 50 per cent rise in the business, over the 2017/18 fina

As employment tribunal claim numbers rise across the UK, Natasha Meikle and Claire McKee look at the biggest issue on the topic of age discrimination facing the courts (not to mention public sector employers and their employees) in 2019. The Court of Appeal held at the end of 2018 that the transitio

DWF's Scottish corporate team has advised private equity investors Aliter Capital and Boston Networks on the acquisition of technology solutions business Pinacl Solutions and Pinacl GDA to create a new UK-wide network infrastructure and integrated technologies business. This is the tenth deal on whi

Couples in England and Wales will be able to go through "no-fault" divorces faster under new government proposals. New legislation representing the biggest overhaul of divorce laws in the jurisdiction in 50 years will be presented to MPs "as soon as parliamentary time allows".

Professor Tobias Lock of Maynooth University Department of Law has been appointed constitutional advisor to a Scottish Parliament committee. The one-year appointment will see him support the work of the Parliament's Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee in all constitutional matter

Offenders with mental health conditions and disorders could be given more lenient sentences under proposed guidance published in a consultation from the Sentencing Council. When the guidance is published in its final form judges and magistrates in England and Wales will have a process to follow when

Prison authorities in Russia have reinstated yoga classes for inmates after insisting they would not somehow turn them gay. The classes, introduced last year, were briefly suspended after the country's prosecutor-general launched an investigation into claims by an influential religious scholar that

Members of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Sub-Committee on Policing have asked police to stop their deployment of cyber-kiosks or ‘digital triage devices’ until there is greater clarity on the legal framework for their use in a new report out today. Cyber-kiosks are laptop-sized

The UK government has proposed the creation of an independent regulator as part of a series of measures to ensure social media companies and tech firms keep their users safe, including possible liability for individual members of senior management. The measures are set out in the Online Harms White

Harper Macleod has promoted five lawyers to partner across the country. The promotions of Andrew Upton in dispute resolution, Collette Miller and Jill Fryer in public sector & social housing, and employment team members Scott Milligan and Lorna Davis take the firm's total number of par

Following BTO Solicitors LLP’s recent appointment of a new chairman and chief operating officer, the firm has announced a number of senior promotions. Two associates have been promoted to partner, fifteen have stepped up to senior associate level and a further two senior solicitors have b

Brodies LLP has appointed two new partners in its Aberdeen office. Elaine Farquharson-Black, a recognised leader in the planning arena, will add further strength to Brodies’ housebuilding and planning teams. She joins Brodies from Burness Paull where she was formerly head of both its planning