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A recent widely reported settled claim by a hospitality worker highlighted the controversy that continues to persist with Zero Hour Contracts (ZHC).  Kenny Scott considers the issues that often surround this form of employment arrangement and highlights why ZHC’s still have an import

The judgment in the English case of Owens v Owens was handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. Mrs Owens sought a divorce from her husband on the basis of his behaviour. She said that his behaviour was such that she could not reasonably be expected to cohabit with him. Unusually, Mr Owens sought

More than 300 rape convictions will be reviewed for possible miscarriages of justice amid concerns that evidence casting doubt on prosecution cases has not been fully disclosed. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has announced it will look at 306 convictions made between April 2016 and

The total raised for charity at the 2018 Tumbling Lassie Ball and Seminar has been confirmed as an incredible £27,300.

Plans to tighten the legal framework around Scottish limited partnerships have been supported in the main by the Faculty of Advocates. The UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has proposed reform in the wake of evidence that limited partnerships, particularly

Top road traffic lawyer Graham Walker has been injured in a cycling accident in France, The Herald reports. Mr Walker, 60, of roadtrafficlaw.com, was in intensive care after he fell from his bike in a "freak accident" in which he hit a root on a woodland cylce path and landed on his head, a family f

Pictured (L-R): Claire Thornber, Nicola Gonnella and Claire McCracken. Weightmans has appointed three new partners, taking the number of arrivals to the UK firm’s Glasgow office in recent months to seven.

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, head of the Scottish judiciary and Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division in England & Wales, have agreed a new judicial protocol which will provide for the direct exchange of information between judges in intra-UK cross-border cases involv

Harper Macleod has continued the growth of its Inverness office with the arrival of a new senior associate. Kenneth Campbell has joined the firm from DWF in Edinburgh and will enhance Harper Macleod’s presence across the Highlands, particularly in relation to commercial disputes.

Nestlé's attempts to trademark its four-finger Kit Kat shape have been dismissed by judges in the European Court of Justice, in the latest judgment of a decade-long saga. In a ruling today, the court said the company had failed to show its shape was sufficiently distinctive in all the countri

Anderson Strathern has hired communications industry stalwart Beth Cameron to a newly created communications and public relations manager role. Ms Cameron brings over 20 years of public relations and communications experience to the firm, having started her career in advertising and brand management

If the bar continues to fail to attract women it will "wither from the roots up", Vice Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Angela Grahame QC has said. In an interview with the Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG), Ms Grahame said that while 65 per cent of law students are female across Scotland's

A lawyer’s lifelong passion for helping the careers of others will be commemorated in a scholarship set up to encourage students from less advantaged backgrounds to enter the legal profession. The Kirk Murdoch Memorial Fund will offer financial support, professional mentoring, work placements