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Sarah Gilzean The EAT have overturned an employment tribunal's decision that a male suffered direct sex discrimination when his employer enhanced maternity pay but not shared parental pay, writes Sarah Gilzean.

A week to go, and only a few places remain for the Faculty of Advocates’ 11th World Intellectual Property Day Conference. The freeevent, from 11:30am to 2pm on Friday, 20 April, has the theme “Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity”.

Brian Inkster The Scottish government’s plans for legislative reform of crofting have now been outlined by Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing.

An internal review of a police force has revealed that officers were recording intelligence on dead people. Irish Gardai were mistakenly logging details on their computer system, ironically called Pulse, including ‘sightings’ of homicide victims.

A man who claimed he was struck by a car when he was a primary school boy more than 50 years ago in an accident which he could not remember and of which there was almost no evidence has had has claim for £650,000 in damages against a Scottish local authority dismissed. A judge in the Court of Sessi

Charles Sandison A new law firm, Sandison Kennedy, has been launched in Aberdeen by Charles Sandison.

France has ratified Protocol No.16 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which allows the highest courts of the member states of the Council of Europe to request the court to give advisory opinions on questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedo

Kate Frame The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has found that a police officer was justified in using a PAVA spray to subdue a man who began to struggle during his arrest.

A woman given nearly £10 million after she split from her husband has had her maintenance brought to an end by senior judges, The Briefreports. Kim Waggott, 49, was told by appeal judges to get a job if she needs more money.

Graham Boyack looks at how mediation is faring in Scotland.

Pictured: Magnus Swanson (left) and Steve Cook

William Ury William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, global expert on negotiation and mediation and co-author of Getting to Yes (pictured), will be the keynote speaker at the 2018 International Academy of Mediators (IAM) Annual Conference being held in Edinburgh between 9 and 1

Tom Maclennan None of the creditors of failed law firm McClure Naismith are likely to receive the money they are owed, The Herald reports.

An energy company which was seeking £130 million in damages from an engineering contractor following the collapse of a tunnel at a Fort Augustus hydro-electric scheme nearly a decade ago has won an appeal. By a majority of two-to-one, the Inner House of the Court of Session allowed a reclaiming mot

David Arnott Brodies' David Arnott comments on a major case from the Inner House this week.