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Shoosmiths has advised client Svenska Handelsbanken AB (Handelsbanken), a leading Swedish bank, on its multi-million loan to Thistle Property Group to acquire office buildings Forth House and Playfair House. The offices are situated close to the St James development. The former is let in its entiret

Four operators of a business which charged £2,000 per person for advice on immigration were convicted at Croydon Crown Court of various offences in a case brought by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC). Swaye Binns, 39, from Dulwich founded Commonwealth Evaluators Ltd, a

The Legal Education Foundation has published a report by legal journalist Joshua Rozenberg QC (hon) on the proposed online court. The report provides a commentary on the origins and progress of the programme of court reform currently underway in England and Wales.

In our continuing occasional series on Scotland's legal heritage, Graham Ogilvy considers the National Gallery's portrait of Robert McQueen, who gained notoriety as Lord Braxfield, Scotland's very own hanging judge. Sir Henry Raeburn's painting of Lord Braxfield was completed in 1798

Thursday's vicious and brutal attack on a Glasgow solicitor has sent shock waves through the legal profession in Scotland and there has been no shortage of messages of support and sympathy for a much-respected lawyer. It is unconscionable that anyone should be the victim of a targeted stabbing

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” or so the saying goes. But ask a brand holder what they think of imitation and I would bet a decent amount of money that “flattering” is not one of the adjectives they use, writes Neeraj Thomas. RedPoint are a US company who have

A new report delivered to the United Nations by the Scottish Human Rights Commission calls for greater government action to protect and fulfil women’s rights in Scotland.The report will be presented to the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CE

Two pub directors and licensees have been handed a record fine of more than £327,000 for illegally showing Sky transmissions. Four people who ran between them the Prince of Wales in Stafford, the Beaufort Arms in Birmingham and the Pheasant Inn in Wolverhampton were convicted of a total of 64

Lord Pentland visited the University of Aberdeen on Friday to deliver a lecture in memory of former Supreme Court Justice Lord Rodger. Lord Pentland, a Senator of the College of Justice and chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, delivered the Lord Rodger Lecture to students participating in the Un

Roddy McIlvride QC, Joe Bryce (top right) and Alan Caskie Members of the Faculty of Advocates are to share expertise in immigration law at a masterclass conference in the autumn.

Women are still being “failed” in many areas of life, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned in its largest ever review of women’s rights. In its new report, Pressing for progress: women’s rights and gender equality in 2018, which is being presented to the United

Hannah Franziska is the winner of the 2018 Cloch® Quaich for the best intellectual property law-related dissertation at the University of Aberdeen. Ms Franziska's dissertation explored “Geo-blocking of online copyright-protected content in the EU – a justified infringement of the fre

A full review should be made of the “appropriate adult” system for vulnerable people in police custody before it is applied to complainers and witnesses, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. The Scottish government plans to put existing, non-statutory appropriate adult services on a s

The Scottish government has gained the support of Northern Ireland's law officer in its legal case with the UK government over Brexit. The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has argued Holyrood's Brexit legislation is consistent with the “constitutional framework of devolution” ahead of the