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MacRoberts LLP has welcomed seven former trainees as newly-qualified solicitors.

Licensing lawyer Stephen McGowan will discuss his new book on the complex and ever-changing world of alcohol licensing in Scotland in a virtual launch event later this month. Mr McGowan, partner and head of licensing in Scotland at TLT, discussed his interest in licensing law with Scottish Legal New

Andrew Bowen QC of Terra Firma Chambers examines the case law on reflective loss. In the Supreme Court’s seven-justice ‘root and branch’ review of the rule against reflective loss (often referred to as ‘the rule in Prudential’), the majority held that a shareholder coul

Responses to a consultation on reforming Scotland's gender recognition laws have been published by the Scottish government. A majority of organisations responding to the consultation, which ran from December 2019 to March 2020, broadly supported changing to a statutory declaration-based system, acco

An MSP has lodged a proposal for a draft bill which would see the right to food enshrined in Scots law. Scottish Labour MSP Rhoda Grant's The Right to Food (Scotland) Bill would establish an independent statutory body to oversee food policy to ensure no one goes hungry in Scotland.

Updated national guidance for child protection in Scotland has been published. Outlining the responsibilities of everyone who works with children, young people and their families, the updated guidance has a strengthened focus on listening to the views of children and working with families.

A Coatbridge man who choked a police officer until he was unconscious has been jailed. John Dow attacked the constable after he and his colleague stopped to respond to a disturbance in the town’s Mitchell Street in July 2020.

French police and gendarmes have been told off for inappropriate online behaviour on the likes of Tinder and TikTok. One gendarme who posed in his uniform in his Tinder profile and wrote "if you have to be screwed by the forces of order, you might as well consent and enjoy it", was suspended.

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ruled that two children of UK citizens who emigrated to New Zealand acquired habitual residence in Scotland following the couple’s divorce. The petitioner, F, the child’s father, sought orders under the Child Abduction and Custody Ac

DLA Piper has been appointed by the UK government as the provider of legal services for the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow this November. The firm will provide general commercial support to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) including in respect of sponsorship a

Glasgow-headquartered intellectual property company Murgitroyd has grown its Irish base with the acquisition of European patent and trade mark attorney firm Hanna Moore + Curley (HMC). Dublin-headquartered HMC, which specialises in obtaining intellectual property protection for a wide range of secto

So-called "vaccine passports" will be required to enter certain events and higher risk venues, such as nightclubs, music festivals and some football grounds under plans being put to MSPs next week. The Scottish Parliament will be asked to vote on the introduction of a Covid-19 vaccination verificati

MSPs have agreed to write to the Scottish government to take forward a formal pardon for the 4,000 people accused and executed for witchcraft. A petition lodged by Claire Mitchell QC earlier this year seeks a pardon as well as an official apology and a memorial in recognition of Scotland’s wit

Advocate Jon Kiddie of Terra Firma Chambers explores the use of the Scots language in Scots law. ‘That the Court of Session, or College of Justice, do, after the Union, and notwithstanding thereof, remain, in all time coming, within Scotland, as it is now constituted by the Laws of that Kingdo

An extremely restrictive ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy has come into force in Texas after a go-ahead from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The one-page ruling issued under the court's controversial "shadow docket" process has sparked fears that Roe v Wade, the landmark