Thorntons took its annual Charity Wills Campaign online for 2020 and with the November campaign raising £60,000 for Cash for Kids, it means the total campaign fundraising pot has surpassed £500,000 since Charity Wills began more than 20 years ago. Every Charity Wills month, Thorntons wil
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The finalists of the Law Society of Scotland’s annual national schools debating competition have been confirmed, after a nail-biting semi-final that saw the return of the unseen motion. The four teams going through to this year’s grand final of the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tourname
All but one of President Joe Biden's first judicial nominees are women or from ethnic minorities, in line with his commitment to diversify the bench. Mr Biden yesterday unveiled 11 nominees for the Federal Circuit, the District Court and the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, of whom nine
SLN's Lawyer of the Month for April, Emma Toner, is the first woman editor of Session Cases. This year marks the law reports' bicentenary, on the occasion of which the Scottish Council of Law Reporting is running a poll to determine the most popular of the Session Cases. Nominate your favourite
A wanted mafia man has been caught by police after being identified as the mystery host of a YouTube cooking show. Marc Feren Claude Biart, sought on cocaine trafficking charges since 2014, had been sharing Italian cooking tips on a channel he started with his wife.
A prisoner who was sentenced to an Order for Lifelong Restriction in September 2008 and was refused release by a tribunal of the Parole Board for Scotland has been unsuccessful in petitioning for a judicial review of its decision. Paul Hutton, who was given an OLR after committing offences
A Supreme Court VAT ruling issued today in favour of care home operator Balhousie Holdings sets a significant precedent for UK businesses. The ruling – the culmination of a lengthy legal battle dating back to 2015 – hinged on the process by which Balhousie, owner of Scottish-based Balhou
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has announced its plan to lay a reduced budget before Parliament next month. The budget will be accompanied by a five per cent reduction in the general levy paid for all lawyers and a 20 per cent reduction for all lawyers within their first three years
Senior leadership changes are set to take place tomorrow at Mitchells Roberton, Glasgow’s longest-established firm of solicitors. In an initial move towards retirement and after a long and distinguished career focused on property law, Donald Reid is stepping down as chairman and partner in the
People across Scotland can make non-essential journeys in their local authority area from Friday 2 April when a requirement to Stay Local will replace the Stay at Home rule. Hairdressers, garden centres, car showrooms and forecourts, homeware stores and non-essential click and collect services will
Dr Sandra Duffy comments on the High Court's ruling in AB v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, the first case funded by the Good Law Project's Trans Defence Fund. In the case of AB v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, heard before the High Court of England and Wales (Family Division), a challenge was ma
A survey of senior oil and gas sector legal managers has revealed a substantial number believe net zero actions, by shareholders, investors or activists, present a ‘real risk’ to their business. The Oil and Gas Disputes Survey, conducted by CMS, identified these and other forms of climat
Home Office officials have been accused by prominent barristers of breaching the civil service code by publishing a press release conflating "child rapists" with "failed asylum seekers". One Pump Court Chambers lodged a formal complaint with support from Garden Court Chambers, a number of immig
Dentons has won Scotland IP Transactions Firm of the Year at the Managing IP Awards 2021. It is the second year that Dentons has won this award, having come top in the same category in 2020. The Managing IP Awards took place virtually on 30 March 2021, run by Managing Intellectual Property magazine,
The WS Society Annual Exhibition for 2021 focuses on travel and place. Our team of academics, researchers and consultants have selected prints, guide books, works of local history, historic accounts of travel and ephemera to illustrate a wide variety of approaches to the subject, from the early eigh