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A man has been jailed for over eight years after leaving a potentially explosive device in a city park. Members of the public found the bomb inside a cardboard box which had been left in a shelter in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh on 11 January 2018.

Shoosmiths has announced the recruitment of four senior hires, two associates and a support lawyer in its teams in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Simon Dawes has joined the firm as a legal director in Edinburgh while Simon Mayberry has joined the employment team as a senior associate. Angela Robertson has a

A man who was abused by monks has secured £1.4 million in damages – the highest known sum ever to be awarded to a survivor. The victim, known as AB, was sexually assaulted and beaten by Brothers Ryan, Farrell and Kelly.

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has allowed a minute permitting the employer of two of the administrators for Rangers FC to use material from an action for damages by one employee in its own court action against the Lord Advocate. Duff and Phelps Ltd raised the minute in the malic

Civil proceedings brought against Prince Andrew in the US by sex trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre have ended in an out-of-court settlement, reported to be worth up to £12 million. The Duke of York has strenuously denied Ms Giuffre's allegations that he sexually assaulted her on three occasi

A courthouse dramatically went into lockdown after suspicious packages on its doorstep were reported to police – which turned out to be from Taco Bell. Police set up a perimeter around the federal courthouse in Tuscaloosa, Alabama after employees raised the alarm, blocking adjacent streets to

Hungary and Poland have failed in legal challenges to EU rules that allow for funds to be withheld from member states that fail to protect the rule of law. The rule of law conditionality regulation provides that the European Council may, at the request of the European Commission, adopt measures in r

Dentons is moving its Edinburgh office to the new flagship development at Haymarket.

And so the time has come to talk of David and Henry, and the crimes of which they stand accused. In David Hume’s case sentence has already been passed, his name now severed from the largest post-war building on Edinburgh University’s principal campus. Given that he had fixed ideas on bea

A month-long campaign aims to drive forward the message that the public sector has a key role to play in transforming vacant and derelict land across Scotland. Land Reuse Month, hosted by the Scottish Land Commission, will support local authorities in addressing the ‘how to’ of tackling

The families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting have reached a $73 million settlement with gunmaker Remington. The outcome followed a seven-year legal fight with Remington Arms, the manufacturer of the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle, which was used to murder 20 children and six

Pinsent Masons has completed a move into new offices in the centre of Edinburgh’s financial district. More than 200 lawyers and business operations colleagues will have access to the 25,000 sq ft premises in Capital Square in Morrison Street where Pinsent Masons continues to adopt an agile app

Shoosmiths is to move its Edinburgh office to a new landmark development, marking 10 years of success in Scotland. The firm has been based at Saltire Court, Castle Terrace since 2012 and has expanded its practice significantly in that time. It is now to relocate to the contemporary mixed-use Haymark

With the UK government protections to prevent a flood of corporate insolvencies all now tailing off, will 2022 see the much talked about "tsunami" of insolvencies? Market views on that are mixed but it does seem certain that there will be at least a significant upturn in insolvencies compared to 202

As of this month, the law on fire alarms in Scotland is changing. Stemming from the Grenfell fire tragedy in 2017, which also saw changes made to the Housing (Scotland) Act, this new law now means that all Scottish homes must have interlinked fire alarms. This is concern among homeowners and landlor