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Harper Macleod has appointed family law specialist Natalie Bruce to its Inverness office. Ms Bruce has joined Harper Macleod from Anderson, Shaw & Gilbert as the firm continues to increase numbers at its office in Cradlehall Business Park. Her arrival comes just a few weeks after the firm added

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has submitted its response to the Law Society of Scotland’s consultation on price transparency.  The response recommends that price transparency should be the default. It also recommends that the Law Society promotes a standardised form

A court has found that a weedkiller produced by Monsanto gave a former school groundskeeper cancer. A jury in San Francisco found the company that makes Roundup weedkiller liable for 46-year-old Dewayne Johnson's cancer, awarding him $289 million in damages.

Turkey is facing a crackdown on its lawyers, with 1,539 prosecuted between 2016-18 and 103 sentenced to lengthy prison terms. A report from The Arrested Lawyers Initiative states that there has been a relentless campaign against lawyers across the country.

Livingstone Brown Solicitors is taking part in the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run 10K to raise funds for St Andrew's Hospice. St Andrew’s Hospice endeavours to provide a high standard of specialist palliative care to the people of Lanarkshire with multidisciplinary support for its pa

Staff from Ellis Whittam in Glasgow have been raising funds for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.

A man attempted to take his driving test with a stash of marijuana and drug money in the car. Reginald D. Wooding Jr, 22, was gearing up for his test when the examiner smelled the drug and alerted an officer.

Scotland's prosecutors and courts are to get extra funding to respond to the growth in sexual offence reports and reduce the time such cases take to progress through the justice system. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) will u

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd, also known as Emma’s Diary, £140,000 for illegally collecting and selling personal information belonging to more than one million people. The data broking company, which provides advice

On 18 July the EU Commission handed Google a record fine of £3.8bn (€4.34bn) for abuse of its dominant position in relation to the Android operating system. David Flint and Rebecca Henderson explain why the tech giant incurred the Commission's wrath. What is a dominant position?

The University of Stirling has welcomed legal academics Dr Katie Boyle and Dr Michelle Donnelly to the law and philosophy division. Dr Boyle, who has been appointed as associate professor in international human rights law, qualified as a solicitor with the Government Legal Service for

Privacy International has this week filed an appeal challenging UK police forces' refusal to disclose information on their purchase and use of IMSI catchers. IMSI catchers are surveillance tools which mimic mobile phone towers, tricking phones into connecting with them and revealing personal informa

The SNP has called for the reform and devolution of inheritance tax following reports IHT raised a record £5.2 billion in 2017-18. In the financial year 2016-17, £283m was raised in Scotland – with receipts growing 12 per cent over the preceding decade.  

Scottish insolvency practitioners may be able to use a decision of the Supreme Court in an English case on time limit in support of bringing claims against company directors, even if the claims are over five years old and, on the face it of it, are out of time, writes Katrina Lumsdaine. The Sup