Italy's advertising regulator has banned a TV ad showing nuns receiving crisps instead of wafers at communion.
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Former chairman of Blackadders Solicitors and Lord Dean of Guild of the Guildry Incorporation of Dundee, Scott Williamson WS, has died after being taken ill at home, aged 69. The only son of the late Hugh and Florence Williamson, Mr Williamson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1955 and spent his ea
An advocate has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional misconduct. Lorenzo Alonzi represented defendant Daniel McFarlane at a trial in 2022.
Scottish Legal News is sad to report the death of Sheriff Brian Kearney, at the age of 88, on 28 March. Sheriff Kearney was apprenticed at the firm of McLay Murray and Spens, in 1960, before joining Biggart Lumsden where he specialised in employers' reparation, becoming a partner there in 1965.
Edinburgh Law School remains in the QS World University Rankings’ top 25 law schools for the fifth consecutive year. The rankings placed the law school at 20th in the world and it remains ranked 6th in the UK and 1st in Scotland.
Mackinnons hosted a ‘Lunch with the Legends’ to celebrate (almost) 40 years since the release of groundbreaking Last of the Hunters documentary, featuring three legends – and top skippers – of the Scottish fishing industry: Andrew Bremner, Willie Tait and Terry Taylor.
The Faculty of Advocates’ mini-devilling scheme has been praised again this year, with participating students saying they would definitely recommend it to others. This is the second year a full 10-week programme has been available to students studying towards the diploma. It aims to encourage
The European Court of Human Rights has published a factsheet on past and pending cases concerning climate change. The document has been published following the Strasbourg court's landmark rulings yesterday on three climate cases. The applicants were successful in one of the cases, and unsuccessful i
Thorntons has announced the appointment of seven newly qualified solicitors, all of whom have completed the firm's two-year traineeship programme. Sean Lieder and Hannah Smethurst have joined the firm’s corporate team in Edinburgh, and Walter Buckman has joined the corporate team in Glasgow.
A prestigious art gallery has sacked a worker who secretly put one of his own paintings on public display. The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich said the 51-year-old technical employee smuggled the 60cm x 120cm painting into the building and installed it on an empty wall.
Lindsays has promoted a record number of its lawyers to partner.
Addleshaw Goddard has announced that it is launching a Madrid office with the arrival in May 2024 of all 13 partners and their teams from KWM in Spain. The new office will be led by KWM Madrid managing partner Roberto Pomares.
Five members of an organised criminal gang, which falsely claimed more than £50 million in Universal Credit in the largest benefit fraud ever in England and Wales, have been convicted. Bulgarian nationals, Galina Nikolova, 38; Stoyan Stoyanov, 27; Tsvetka Todorova, 52; Gyunesh Ali, 33; and Pat
Amnesty International is urging shareholders in Dow to consider withdrawing their investment from the US chemicals company if it fails to rapidly meet its human rights responsibilities towards more than 500,000 people still suffering from the Bhopal disaster, one of the world’s worst industria
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of 76-year-old Peter Tobin. Peter Tobin died on 8 October 2022 at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI). Mr Tobin had been an inmate within HMP Edinbu