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Rival honey manufacturers have become embroiled in an international dispute over who can call their products "manuka honey". The New Zealand Manuka Honey Appellation Society is trying to convince the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) that manuka honey can only come from New Zealand.

The Supreme Court has refused an appeal by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs against a decision of the English Court of Appeal not to require a top UK divorce lawyer to pay back over £475,000 in taxes that were avoided via a scheme. HMRC claimed that the respondent, Raymon

Defence lawyers around the country downed their gowns yesterday in protest against the Scottish government's refusal to promptly disburse payments from its resilience fund. The Scottish government has only paid out £2.3 million of the £9m fund and less than a third of firms that applied

Clyde & Co has announced the promotions of Alison Tyler and Ann Bonomy to legal directors in Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively as part of its 2021 promotions round. Ms Tyler qualified with the firm in 2011. She is part of the firm's catastrophic and large loss team and specialises in defending

The Supreme Court is to begin hosting interactive, guided virtual tours for the public.

Mike Dailly, solicitor advocate at Govan Law Centre, has called on the Scottish government to extend the Covid eviction ban in his latest Glasgow Times column. Mr Dailly said there is a "common misconception" that eviction protections last until September.

Back in March 2020, when the world turned upside down, whilst we started panic buying toilet roll, washing our hands singing Happy Birthday, doing Zoom pub quizzes and our daily Joe Wicks workouts, another strange phenomenon materialised: Spaces for People. The Scottish government and Sustrans initi

As we emerge from restrictions and start looking towards post-pandemic ways of working, Ampersand has launched an ambitious pilot to instruct their advocates and alternative dispute practitioners electronically. In March 2020, electronic instructions became the norm, whenever possible. More than a y

UKELA Scotland has announced two new online events for its 2021 calendar. The first is a lunchtime talk by Ben Christman on 24 June 2021. Mr Christman has been appointed as the first in-house solicitor for the new Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS).

Two men in North Carolina who were wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl more than three decades ago have received a $75 million payout, believed to be the largest in US history. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, who are intellectually disabled half-brothers, spent decades on deat

Vialex has signed the Mindful Business Charter, joining a wide range of businesses and professional service firms around the world in a collective commitment to address the avoidable stresses in our working practices and to promote healthier and more effective ways of working. The charter, originall

A construction worker was threatened with jail time after wearing a T-shirt to a virtual court hearing. Detroit judge Ronald Giles reprimanded the defendant, who claimed he had been working a building site.

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ordered that the young child of a Canadian citizen be returned to Quebec to live with her after an application was made for his return under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction. The mother, ML, petitioned the court for an orde

Defence lawyers around Scotland have gone on strike today after last-minute talks with the Scottish government to obtain additional payments from its resilience fund failed. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association held talks with Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf over the remainder of the fund yesterda

The Scottish government has made a conscious decision to deprive the legal aid system of funding. The number of lawyers able to service the scheme is dwindling. Wooed by COPFS or simply unwilling to be the sticking plaster in a broken system, they have left. As lawyers strike today, solicitor advoca