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Children’s charity Aberlour will receive a grant of more than £5.5 million over this parliamentary term to develop two Mother and Child Residential Recovery Houses. The houses will be designed to enable children of women with problematic substance use to stay with their mothers during th

A primary school teacher who was injured while playing a game of tag on a physical education training course has failed to establish that her employer was liable for her injury. Glenda Mackenzie, aged 42 at the time of the accident, suffered a fracture to her right elbow as well as cuts to her knees

Macdonald Henderson, led by corporate director Laura McKnight, has advised the shareholders of Ping Network Solutions on the disposal of the company to Luxembourg-based Sword Group.Ping is a systems integrator & managed service provider that was founded in 2010. Having worked in the industry for

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will marry his lawyer Stella Moris today at HMP Belmarsh. Vivienne Westwood has designed a wedding dress for Ms Moris and a kilt for Mr Assange, whose parents have links to Scotland.

A man who allegedly took part in the storming of the US Capitol in January 2021 has been granted asylum in Belarus. Evan Neumann, who fled the US after he was charged with 14 offences including assault of a police officer, appeared on Belarusian state television yesterday, CNN reports.

Global law firm Quinn Emanuel has been instructed by Ukraine's Ministry of Defence to bring proceedings against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Alex Gerbi and Julianne Hughes-Jennett, partners in the London office of the US-headquartered firm, have taken on Ukraine's case pro b

We are often asked about the system for the regulation of the sale of alcohol in Scotland and it is suggested that this bears a close relationship with that in England and Wales. Yes, there are similarities but also significant differences. So how is the sale of alcohol regulated in Scotland? The Li

Addleshaw Goddard (AG), which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, has opened an office in Luxembourg. With financial services as the firm's largest single sector, Luxembourg represents a significant business conduit, not only in finance deals, but also corporate, real estate and funds tr

The Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian and Lord Woolman have been elected fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. They are among 80 new fellows, including Annie Lennox OBE.

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a seminar on ‘Anti-Money Laundering, Privilege and Disclosure’ at the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Thursday 28 April 2022.   At this event, Gordon Watt, Advoc

The Supreme Court has ruled that an English law firm offering a “no win, no fee” service in respect of passenger compensation claims for flight cancellations is entitled to an equitable lien from an airline in respect of its costs after it changed its procedure relating to compensation c

Jan Machielsen, senior lecturer in early modern history at Cardiff University, takes a critical look at Nicola Sturgeon's recent apology to those accused of witchcraft.  On International Women’s Day this year, Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised at Holyrood to

A shoe shop has has appealed to a bungling thief to "do the right thing" and return 20 stolen shoes – all of them for left feet only. A reward of $5,000 (around €4,500) has been offered by the Miami-based store for the return of the shoes, which are of dubious resale value without their r

The Law Society of Scotland has called on the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) to focus more on its core role in handling legal complaints and go further in controlling its costs. Responding to the SLCC’s consultation on its draft budget for 2022-23, the society has noted the SLCC i

Police officers who oversaw the botched investigation into the takeover of Rangers FC are facing allegations of perjury and that they attempted to pervert the course of justice, The Times reports. David Grier, 61, a business consultant with Duff & Phelps, lost his malicious prosecution case in J