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Janette Speed, real estate partner and head of Shoosmiths in Scotland, recently teamed up with her client Bellway Homes to complete a 15-mile hike at Kielder Water in Northumberland in aid of Cancer Research UK (CRUK). 

A man who stole a human skull and kept it for more than a year has been jailed for four months. Lucas Dawe, 20, found the skull exposed within a mausoleum-style tomb in an Anglican cemetery.

An employer which was found to have “victimised” a former employee after sifting out her application for a job has successfully challenged a tribunal’s decision to uphold her claim, after the employment judge “fell fully asleep not once but twice” during the hearing. Th

Planning minister Kevin Stewart said communities will have more say in shaping the future development of their areas after MSPs agreed to a “radical shake-up” of planning laws.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today fined Bank of Scotland (BOS) £45,500,000 for failures to disclose information about its suspicions that fraud may have occurred at the Reading-based impaired assets (IAR) team of Halifax Bank of Scotland. The FCA found that BOS failed to be open

The Scottish government has published legislation to extend the right to vote in Scottish elections to citizens of all nationalities legally resident in Scotland. The Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation) Bill aims to benefit around 55,000 people and reaffirms the existing voting rights

The Court of Appeal in England & Wales has handed down its judgment in the matter of Howard Kennedy v The National Trust for Scotland [2019] EWCA Civ 648, on appeal from the decision of Sir David Eady, sitting as a judge of the High Court on the Queen's Bench Division Media and Communications Li

Clive Phillips, head of the land & rural business team at Brodies LLP, gives an insight into the rural sector and the challenges it faces. Q) You are a lawyer and farmer – tell us about it?

Pakistan is to establish more than 1,000 courts devoted to tackling violence against women, the country's most senior judge has announced. Chief justice Asif Saeed Khosa said the special courts would let victims speak out without fear of retaliation, The Guardian reports.

CMS is to become the first law firm to sign The Glass Network's framework for Scottish law firms that promote LGBT+ diversity and inclusion. The firm's managing director, Allan Wernham, will sign The Glass Charter at CMS and The Glass Network's Pre-Pride Brunch, in its Edinburgh

The Blackadders Employment Team are participating in the Mighty Stride (25 miles) in the 2019 Kilt Walk in Dundee to raise funds for the Dundee Carers Centre.

A panel of expert speakers in the field of family creation gathered before an audience of legal professionals, academics and other professionals to consider the legal implications of the creation of modern families in today's society at the offices of Harper Macleod.

Senior leaders from Deloitte LLP and Morton Fraser LLP have combined forces to call on corporate teams to pitch their brightest business ideas to them, as part of the Children 1st Dragons’ Glen charity challenge. Graeme Carmichael, senior manager, advisory, at Deloitte LLP and Austin Flynn, a

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia unlawful, court rules

A man was apprehended by police in the Polish town of Pajeczna after he was caught drunk driving – in a Soviet tank. Local police said he had commandeered a 36-tonne T-55 battle tank armed with 100m cannon and able to hit targets 10 miles away.