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A man who received an order for lifelong restriction after a severe assault on his partner has failed in an appeal based on the fact that the risk assessor whose report supported the order had adverse findings made against him in another case shortly before giving evidence. The High Court of Justici
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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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Burness Paull has hired hotels and student accommodation specialist Roland Smyth as a partner to boost sector growth from within its real estate team. Qualified in both Scots and English law, Mr Smyth brings considerable experience of commercial real estate and has developed an outstanding reputatio
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Steph McTighe, an Edinburgh-based senior associate and disputes resolution specialist at CMS, has been appointed as Scotland’s Ambassador to the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC). A respected global institution with in-depth knowledge and links across Europe, VIAC assists businesses
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Shakespeare Martineau has strengthened its Scotland team with the appointment of two solicitors and a trainee, alongside the qualification of an existing team member, as it continues to grow its presence. Based in the firm’s Edinburgh office, Sinead Pow has qualified into the litigation team a
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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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A special issue of Juridical Review detailing the proceedings of an experimental workshop has been published. Scotify! was an event organised by Strathclyde Law School academic Dr Jonathan Brown and hosted in September 2025, with support from Engage with Strathclyde.
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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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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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A Peruvian man named Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores has been elected mayor of a small Andean district, winning by 25 votes – on a centre-left party ticket. The 45-year-old Ahora Nación candidate received 229 votes, representing 34.5 per cent of the 663 valid ballots cast in Quero
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Beavers have destroyed a warning sign erected by foresters in southern Poland to alert the public to damage caused by beavers. The forestry district of Lubliniec shared photographs of the damaged sign on social media. Its message, “Warning! Damage caused by beavers”, had been displayed o
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A New Zealand bank has found itself in the middle of a free-speech row after attempting to remove explicit memes of its new sheep mascot from social media. Kiwi Bank introduced Buck in June with an ad campaign designed to encourage customers to stop "following the flock".
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Thieves have stolen 30,000 bottles of wine worth €5m (£4.2m) from a prestigious Tuscan winery in what is believed to be Italy’s biggest heist of its kind. At least seven masked intruders disabled alarms and CCTV at Marchesi Antinori, a family business established in 1385, before usi
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