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Dundee-based building sector investment firm United Capital has announced the appointment of leading employment solicitor Ryan Russell as in-house legal counsel and non-executive director. After the company’s ...

Rachel Walker, solicitor and associate at the Legal Services Agency, discusses the provisions for vulnerable adults in the coronavirus legislation. The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 came into force on 7 ...

A drug trafficker has been sentenced to death in Singapore in a remote court hearing held using Zoom. Malaysian national Punithan Genasan, 37, was convicted on Friday ...

Featured in the latest Signet magazine, celebrated South African lawyer and social justice campaigner Professor Thuli Madonsela is to be admitted as a fellow of the ...

Terra Firma is pleased to announce the next in its 2020 Vision series of webinars: 2020 Vision - Bringing clarity to employment law in the time of COVID-19 will be ...

Benjamin Bestgen considers judges and politics (click here to view his last jurisprudential primer). See also SLN's review of Lord Sumption's book dealing with the same theme. ...

A group of young men who gave cider to cows have been fined for flouting lockdown restrictions. A video posted on social media showed a group of ...

An oilfield tool manufacturing company has succeeded in its petition to restore its former licensees to the register of companies so that they could be the defendants ...

Fraud cases in Scotland are expected to rise this year as fraudsters are increasingly taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak, according to a new report from accountancy ...

Legislation providing for the introduction of a points-based UK immigration system after Brexit has passed second reading in the House of Commons. The Immigration and Social Security ...

Police Scotland has been reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) over the use of breath tests during the pandemic. The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) said in ...

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has written to Holyrood's Justice Committee to highlight concerns about measures being taken in prisons during the pandemic. The commission expressed concern ...

If anything positive can be taken from the coronavirus pandemic it is that, almost overnight, accommodation was found for large numbers of Scotland’s street-homeless population. As soon ...

The Scottish University Law Clinic Network (SULCN) is hosting a webinar led by SULCN’s founding student members Eamon Keane, Hannah Cosgrove and Ryan Whelan, reflecting upon their experience ...

Roddy Cormack explores the role of designers in the return to operations for the construction industry in the midst of the pandemic. It’s important to remember the responsibilities ...