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Employment lawyer Hayley Johnson has joined Morton Fraser as an associate. Ms Johnson, who has over 10 years of experience in the sector, joins from Slater and Gordon. She has particular expertise advising senior executives and advising on discrimination as well as industrial relation

Lynn Melville has joined Blackadders as a partner. Ms Melville, who is an accomplished lawyer in the private client field, will be based in the Dundee and Perth offices. She was formerly a partner at BTO Solicitors.

The Housing & Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (FTS) has made the first ever award of a Wrongful Termination Order, penalising a landlord who had evicted a tenant on bogus grounds. Tenant Jesus Rodriguez-Ortega had rented a studio flat in Edinburgh from Cesar Domingu

Judges should challenge family lawyers who send emails outside acceptable hours, the president of the family courts in England and Wales has said. In an update on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the family courts, Sir Andrew McFarlane said court hearings and emails taking place "without any r

STEP Scotland, in association with Terra Firma Chambers, will host a webinar entitled Cross Border Issues focusing on England/Scotland on Thursday 28th January 2021 from 12 noon to 1pm. The event, which will be introduced by Terra Firma Chambers’ Philip Simpson QC, provides an online forum for

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) will host a conference on ethics over three virtual sessions in the coming weeks. The Ethics Conference will be held on Tuesday 19 January, Tuesday 26 January and Thursday 4 February.

A court in South Korea has ordered Japan to compensate a group of wartime sex slaves. The Japanese government has reacted with anger to an order from a court in Seoul that it pay 100 million won (£67,000) to 12 'comfort women'.

The publication of a report detailing government knowledge of 'unidentified aerial phenomena' (UAP) has been ordered by a committee. The director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense must provide an unclassified report on UAP, another term for unidentified flying objects, within six

Prisons should offer free cannabis to drug-dependent prisoners to determine whether it could stem overdose deaths and reduce violence, a police and crime commissioner has said. Arfon Jones, North Wales PCC, said if the authorities seriously wanted to reduce violence in prisons, “they should be

An Italian pasta maker has apologised after naming a product in apparent tribute to Mussolini's military campaign in Ethiopia. La Molisana has promised to rename the "Abissine" pasta, named after fascist Italy's 1930s colonial war in what was then known as Abyssinia.

The Sheriff Appeal Court (Civil Division) has dismissed an appeal by a property owner in Carnoustie against an order requiring him to give access to his property for to the owner of a neighbouring house to park his car. Charles Davidson, one of two defenders along with Angela Milne&nb

Solicitors in West Lothian will move to adjourn future trial diets as concern over the safety of courts in Scotland grows. The Faculty of West Lothian Solicitors has endorsed the response of the Glasgow Bar Association to the Lord President, Lord Carloway, who this week said failure to comply with c

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the average property selling price in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders was £269,542, up 8.1 per cent compared to last year, according to the latest data released by ESPC.

Martin Devine looks at the state of the commercial property sector during the pandemic. It has been a tumultuous year for the commercial property sector with Covid-19 disrupting investors’ plans and, at least in the short term, bringing transactional activity to a shuddering halt.

Millions of leaseholders will be given the right to extend their lease by a maximum term of 990 years at zero ground rent under the "biggest reforms to English property law for 40 years". At present, the right to a lease extension enables a lease to be extended by 50 years in the case of a house and