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As the nights draw in and the shops silt up with Hallowe’en plastic, spare a thought for the poltergeist. Invisible to the human eye, dismissed as a noisy nuisance if making its presence felt. Court reporters in Scotland can empathise, writes Rosalind McInnes, legal director at BBC Scotland. D
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Tom Usher is to take up his new appointment as chair of the East Neuk Festival (ENF). Mr Usher, a competition law expert at Burness Paull, has been a board member of the music festival since October 2025. He is passionate about music and he and his family now live in Elie in the East Neuk of Fife. H
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Ledingham Chalmers has appointed Sarah Morris as managing partner, bringing 25 years of experience with the firm to the role. Ms Morris leads the firm’s institutional litigation team and has extensive experience advising public sector clients, local authorities and major insurers. Having built
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Anderson Strathern has strengthened its dispute resolution team with the promotion of commercial litigation specialist Eilidh MacEwan to partner. A solicitor advocate with more than 10 years' experience, she advises clients across the financial sector on a range of commercial disputes including inso
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Gillespie Macandrew has announced three senior appointments with the arrival of Chris Devlin and Douglas Roberts, as partners in planning and corporate respectively, and Nikki Robertson as head of finance. The appointments take the firm's partnership to a record 30 partners and come as Gillesp
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Caroline Smith has joined Weightmans as a partner in the family team in Glasgow. Previously of MTM Law, a niche family law practice, Ms Smith has specialised in family law throughout a 30-year career, advising separating married and unmarried clients on relationship breakdown both on finance and chi
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Eleven lawyers at Aberdein Considine LLP working from Aberdeen to Newcastle have been recognised in its latest round of promotions this autumn, including three lawyers who started their traineeships with the firm. In Aberdeen, three experienced residential conveyancing lawyers become associates - Br
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Samantha McPhillips, an LLM student at the University of Edinburgh, has won the postgraduate category of the Mason Institute’s 2025/26 Student Essay Competition. Her winning essay, From Risk to Capacity: The Limits of Fusion Law in Reforming Involuntary Treatment, was recognised in the competi
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Kehinde Adeogun, director of legal services and policy at the Black Equity Organisation (BEO), is to discuss strategic litigation and racial justice in a lecture at the University of Glasgow next month. Her lecture, entitled On Racial Justice and the Law: In Conversation with Kehinde Adeogun, will t
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Strathclyde Law School is to become the first Scottish host of LawWithoutWalls (LWOW), with the international legal innovation programme coming to Glasgow in March 2027. LWOW is a global initiative that annually brings together lawyers, in-house professionals, business leaders, academics and student
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An internationally acclaimed Scottish scholar who has written about the extremely high number of murders and prisoners in the US lectured on the topic at Middlesex University. David Garland, a professor of law and sociology at New York University, spoke to academics, criminal justice professionals a
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University of Dundee researchers have unveiled two new aids in the fight to protect the integrity of the criminal justice system. Experts from the Clarus Project, led by experts from Dundee’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, and Faculty of S
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Airbnb will prohibit hosts from requiring guests to clean their accommodation before checkout under new rules taking effect on November 20. The policy, applying to reservations booked from that date, bans requirements to wash and put away dishes, strip beds, start laundry or take rubbish off-site.
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A Canadian man has been convicted of felony and misdemeanour animal cruelty after stealing a flamingo from a Las Vegas hotel while drunk. Mitchell Fairbarn, from rural Ontario, took 27-year-old Peachy from the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino’s wildlife habitat in the early hours of 3 March
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Florida governor Ron DeSantis has pledged to make Tesla’s new 'flying' Roadster legal in the state, joking that it could "leapfrog golf carts in The Villages". "We will make sure that it's legal," DeSantis wrote on X, following Elon Musk’s unveiling of the long-awaited vehicle at a Space
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A bus driver has lost a disability discrimination claim after being dismissed following complaints about her farting at work. Stephanie Bryan, who worked for electric bus operator The Big Lemon, was accused of producing significant flatulence that left colleague Samantha Bingham believing she had so
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An Australian currency trader who was sacked for working overseas without permission has won an unfair dismissal case – but was denied compensation. The Fair Work Commission ruled that Charles Graham was unfairly dismissed by HIFX Australia, trading as Xe, in December last year.
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