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A judicial review petition seeking declarator that a decision of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs prohibiting UK-registered fishing vessels from catching sandeel for commercial purposes in the North Sea for the entirety of 2022 has been refused by a Lord Ordinary. Sunbe

A police officer tracking a suspected spy balloon was left red-faced after discovering it was cack on his windshield. The community police officer in the Dutch town of Boxtel said he noticed a "spy balloon above my neighbourhood" during his rounds.

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised high-street retailer Ann Summers on the opening of a new store in Glasgow. The new shop is located within Buchanan Galleries and becomes the retail giant's third city centre store. The WBD team was led by partner Nikki Powell and managing associate Clare Lamon

TLT has appointed corporate lawyer Douglas Roberts as a partner. Previously a corporate partner at Lindsays, his portfolio includes over 20 years of M&A, equity investments and corporate advisory work across a broad spectrum of clients, including SMEs, family businesses and start-ups.

The skills and knowledge required to be ‘The Complete Conveyancer’ will be the focus of CLT Scotland’s Conveyancing Conference taking place exclusively in-person on Monday 6 March at the Hilton Glasgow.

Jacqueline Moore, one of Scotland’s leading immigration solicitors, has joined Thorntons. She is accredited as a specialist in immigration law by the Law Society of Scotland and is top ranked as an individual practitioner by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.

Anderson Strathern has appointed four new directors. Lorraine Currie, one of only four solicitors accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in freedom of information and data protection law, has joined Anderson Strathern following eight-years at the Scottish Information Commissioner&

A webinar series on the EU Settlement Scheme will be held next month. The series, for legal practitioners and other interested professionals, consists of three online sessions covering different aspects of the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), an immigration regime introduced by the Home Office in M

The Scottish Tax Clinic, which launched in late 2021 to provide free tax advice to the public, has celebrated some key milestones.

Applications for the WS Society's Summer Law Scholarship programme 2023 are now open. Designed for law students to enhance their professional and personal development, it is an opportunity for participants to spend two weeks as a WS Summer Scholar with the resources of the Signet Library at their fi

A new book by Stephen Bogle investigates James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair's groundbreaking approach to the law of contract. Contract before the Enlightenment, which will be released on 23 March, explores the development and reception of his ideas relating to the law of contract on the eve the Scottis

The Sheriff Appeal Court has upheld a conviction under section 2(1) of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 after an appeal by a man who was found guilty of uploading images of his former partner to a swingers’ website while they were still together. DF was sentenced to a

Jenny Dickson considers what a human rights based approach in the Scottish and UK Covid-19 Inquiries may look like. Both the Scottish and the UK governments have established public inquiries to examine the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The inquiries are underway, both considering a wide range o

Millions of people were hit with an internet blackout on the weekend after authorities took action to prevent teacher candidates from accessing a leaked exam paper online. Internet services were disabled for 24 to 36 hours in 11 cities in the Indian state of Rajasthan, including capital Jaipur with

Eversheds Sutherland is taking almost 6,000sq ft of space on the ground floor of BAM Properties’ and Federated Hermes’s Capital Square development in Edinburgh. The firm is the sixth occupier to commit to the building following Anderson Strathern, Pinsent Mason and Brodies, audit and tax