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Scottish Information Commissioner David Hamilton has highlighted the challenges facing Scotland’s freedom of information (FOI) regime after a record-breaking year, which saw the FOI requests received by Scottish public bodies grow by 13 per cent, and the FOI appeals made to the commissioner in
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Thorntons has welcomed 23 new trainee solicitors, its largest intake to date, with placements spanning eight offices from Inverness to Edinburgh.
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Paisley-based MJC LAW has appointed Nikkala Kelly as a trainee solicitor and promoted Courtney Convey to trainee legal assistant. Ms Kelly will begin her traineeship within the firm’s conveyancing team, where she will be mentored by associate director and conveyancing solicitor Karianne Falcon
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A commercial litigation and insolvency specialist has rejoined Aberdein Considine LLP, eight years after stepping down from the partnership to focus primarily on her family business. Leonie Nimmons (née Donald) returns to the firm’s growing dispute resolution team as a consultant and wi
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Murray Beith Murray LLP has welcomed the appointment of Jill Andrew as co-chair of a Scotland-wide residential property process review. Ms Andrew was asked by ministers to co-lead the Scottish Government Conveyancing Review Working Group, which will undertake a focussed analysis of Scotland’s
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His Majesty The King has approved the appointment of Lord Briggs of Westbourne as the next president of the Supreme Court. The King made the appointment on the advice of the prime minister and lord chancellor, following the recommendation of an independent selection commission. Lord Briggs will take
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TLT has continued investment in Edinburgh with the appointment of digital partner Caroline Churchill. Ms Churchill joins TLT from Womble Bond Dickinson, where she was a commercial partner specialising in technology, cybersecurity and non-contentious data protection.
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People struggling to access legal advice, communities facing barriers to healthcare, and individuals unable to exercise rights that already exist in law are among the challenges a new research centre at Robert Gordon University (RGU) aims to address. Bringing together experts in law, sociology, psyc
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Undocumented conversations, inconsistent terminology, and exposure to unnecessary contextual information can undermine the integrity of criminal investigations, a University of Dundee-led study has found. Research from the Horizon Europe-funded Clarus Project, spearheaded by Dundee experts, has high
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The Centre for Scots Law at the University of Aberdeen has hosted a book launch for two of its members, Professor Andrew Simpson and Dr Euan West.
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Lecturers at Edinburgh Law School have been awarded funding by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research for their research project examining live facial recognition governance. Dr Lachlan Urquhart, senior lecturer in technology law and human-computer interaction at Edinburgh Law School, and Dr D
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A new blog by Mabel Omolola Demokun for the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law examines the health and safety challenges posed by the rapid expansion of the offshore wind industry. The article considers issues raised at a May workshop funded by the National Decommissioning Centre, including t
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A Belgian man has sent £8,500 in supermarket vouchers to a scammer posing as singer Céline Dion and remains convinced they are in a relationship, despite warnings from his family. His daughter, Karla, said her father had been buying vouchers from Carrefour, a supermarket, and sending th
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Criminals have been free to roam the streets of Berlin because prosecutors ran out of the official yellow envelopes used to summon them to prison. The shortage lasted several weeks and affected envelopes required for formal legal service, according to the Berliner Zeitung.
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Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has insisted a passenger injured when a plane window broke was merely sucked towards the opening but not actually out of it. Ljubisa Karovic, 61, suffered neck and shoulder injuries during a July 10 flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen, after the window broke. He
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An Italian man faces a fine of up to €200,000 (£172,000) or a possible prison term after the dried head of a critically endangered crocodile was found in his luggage at Turin’s Caselle airport. The passenger had arrived from Miami via Istanbul, reportedly returning from holiday, whe
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Robots took to the streets of Warsaw this week, waving flags and marching in circles to demand stronger regulation of AI. About 30 AI-powered machines, ranging from humanoids to dog-like quadrupeds, demonstrated outside Poland’s digital affairs ministry in a protest organised by Democratism, w
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