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The Edinburgh office of Balfour and Manson has added two new associates – one each to its employment and commercial property teams. Russell Eadie joins the firm as a senior associate in the employment team. He arrives at the firm having worked in employment law for over 25 years. A former part

Plans for the construction of Scotland’s first spaceport have passed yet another legal hurdle after the Scottish Land Court ruled that crofters can still work on the land outside of rocket launch periods. The Land Court approved a change in land use to enable Highlands and Islands Enterprise (

Douglas J. Cusine questions the purpose and scope of the proposed register of judicial interests. The Scottish government is insisting on a register of judicial interests, to promote the ends of “openness and transparency”. It is unlikely that any arguments presented by the former and cu

The purpose of the unification of the Scottish Land Court and the Lands Tribunal for Scotland announced by the Scottish government last week is to simplify arrangements for the resolution of land law disputes. As matters stand, anyone with a legal problem involving land is faced with the question of

More than 140 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates today called on the candidates to be the next German chancellor – Annalena Baerbock, Olaf Scholz, and Armin Laschet – to declare themselves in favour of waiving intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines and tr

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD), which has an office in Edinburgh, has unveiled a new hybrid working model. Its staff now have the flexibility to combine home and office working, without any mandatory requirements being set across the business other than for those in learning roles.

The Aberdeen Law Project’s representation team has secured a four-figure sum for a client who had been subjected to disability-related discrimination. Lead advisor Katy Smith succeeded in a discrimination case at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. Sheriff Hodge found in favour of the client, who had been

Anti-vaccine protesters have failed in a bid to "bring London to a total standstill" by wantonly pressing buttons on pedestrian crossings. Members of a thousands-strong Facebook group were urged to "remind this government that NOTHING moves or happens in this country unless the people agree to

The family of a 50-year-old man who died after having an accident on a diving boat near Cape Wrath have been awarded £290,000 in damages by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Debbie Warner, the widow of the late Lex Warner, raised the action following her husband’s death

Burness Paull has added the most highly-rated immigration lawyer in Scotland and her team to its ranks to support clients in dealing with increasingly complex international visa and employment regulations.

Traffic police in Scotland are catching as many drivers on drugs as those who are drunk, new figures show. Specialist road officers are catching 40 to 50 motorists a week who have taken narcotics. The figures come after roadside tests were brought in two years ago. Drug wipes are used to detect drug

Blackadders has continued its expansion in the west of Scotland by recruiting an experienced employment law adviser to its Glasgow base. Stephen Connolly, who joins the firm as a partner today, is the latest addition to the firm’s Glasgow team. Previously a partner with Miller Samuel Hill Brow

The public inquiry into the pandemic should focus on lessons for the future in a timely manner, says Graeme Watson. The only thing we learn from history, according to Hegel, is that we learn nothing from our history. Eighteen months and over 10,500 deaths after Scotland's first Covid-19 case, the Sc

Gillespie Macandrew has bolstered its planning, property and energy teams with a number of recent hires. Gordon Clark has joined the firm’s planning team from Dentons, while Ross Baron and Catherine Wylie have joined the energy sector team from Watermans Legal and Raworths respectively. 

Terra Firma's David Logan successfully represented the petitioners, a community interest company, in a judicial review against a planning decision of Dundee City Council to install an e-bike docking station outside residential flats in the West End Suburbs Conservation Area of Dundee. The core of th