DLA Piper Scotland will relaunch LAW, the firm's global gender balance network, tomorrow at an event with guest speaker Dr Cal Major. Scotland will host the first in a series of events across the UK to celebrate the global relaunch of LAW, which was established to promote gender diversity and streng
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Jodi Gordon, partner at Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP, comments on the development of remote hearings during the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘Working from home’ has become the norm for so many of us over the last 10 months. There have been challenges along the way requiring both employ
Neil Mackenzie QC, Dorothy Bain QC and Vinit Khurana QC will speak to law students about their experience at the bar at an information day event this evening. The University of Dundee Mooting Society will host the online Faculty of Advocates Information Day today, Monday 25 January 2021, at 6pm.
The Edinburgh University Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue Society (EUPIDS) has announced its first-ever academic conference. The postgraduate-led conference on issues relating to Palestine and/or Israel has now opened a call for papers and is welcoming submissions until 11 February 2021.
Young couples are increasingly asking lawyers to write social media clauses into their pre-nuptial agreements. Family law firm Fields and Dennis, based in the US city of Boston, said young couples are worried about their online reputations in the event of a divorce.
An Aberdeen-based IT company has successfully appealed against a decision of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission after it dismissed a complaint the company made against a firm of solicitors that it had instructed. Aberdeen Computer Services Ltd ultimately agreed twelve issues of
The Scottish Parliament should be able to pass a law to hold an independence referendum without the consent of the UK government, a judge in the Court of Session has heard. Declarator to this effect is being sought by Martin James Keatings. He also argues that no amendment would need to be made of t
More than 4,000 digital files stolen from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in a cyber attack over Christmas have now been illegally published online after the public body rejected a ransom demand.
Scottish Labour has criticised the Scottish government’s refusal to support the Culpable Homicide (Scotland) Bill after the stage one debate at Holyrood. The bill, introduced to the Scottish Parliament in 2019 by Scottish Labour’s Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Claire Baker, sought to ensure
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published proposals to introduce a price cap on the fees claims management companies (CMCs) charge their customers in relation to claims for financial products and services. Some consumers currently pay fees of more than 40 per cent of the redress they recei
Lesley Weber has been appointed to the Scottish Sentencing Council as its new victims expert member. Ms Weber, who is the head of effective practice at the Risk Management Authority (RMA), is a qualified social worker specialising in children and families, domestic abuse and violence against women a
Whether UK employers require staff to be vaccinated is a question that has been doing the rounds since the Pfizer vaccine became available. My experience is that clients start the discussion thinking that they might want to mandate, or very actively encourage employees to be vaccinated, but having h
The British Army was "unjustified" in shooting an unarmed and innocent Co Tyrone farmer in cold blood in 1974, the first legacy inquest held under the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland's five-year plan has concluded. Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan yesterday delivered her findings and verdict follow
The first session of the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) Ethics Conference was a success with over 130 people in attendance. Laila Kennedy, SYLA treasurer and trainee solicitor at Ledingham Chalmers LLP, said: "Members heard from three fantastic speakers – Stephen McLaren of Ledingh
The Amalgamated Briefing Paper on Restarting Solemn Trials has been updated. Practitioners may wish to note that the written direction on corroboration has been updated. The following wording has been added at Part B(4):