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Gordon Jackson QC The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates has said it is "harder than ever before" for defence lawyers to secure acquittals for serious crimes.

Ten staff members at Thorntons Law LLP are taking part in a charity head shave in aid of Cancer Research UK early next month.

Jennifer Skeoch Jennifer Skeoch takes a look at the implications of last week’s long-awaited judgment from the Supreme Court on Employment Tribunal fees.

Aretha Franklin I was 18 when I went to Auschwitz. My school chum Eamonn Kelly and I got a train to Warsaw and then down to Krakow. 1975 – height of the Cold War. Mad, I know. How we were allowed to go remains a mystery to me.

Sheriff Anwar A sheriff has published a Note that includes a letter to two children in a contact case in which the court held the pursuer (father) was entitled to indirect contact.

A man who refused to be treated by an optician following the Manchester terrorist attack because she was not white has been rebuked by a sheriff, The Scotsman reports. Eric Greene, 58, from Carluke, Lanarkshire, went to Specsavers in Lanark where he told trainee optician, Sarah Kerr, who is of India

Sir Nigel Knowles DWF has announced Sir Nigel Knowles (pictured) as its new chairman, effective 1 September 2017. Sir Nigel takes over from Alan Benzie who served for 10 years.

Pictured (L-R): Steve Cavanagh, Imran Mahmood, Laura Thomson and GJ Moffat

The theft of a tiny house that later resurfaced over 750 miles away has baffled police officers. Julie Bray built the prototype home, worth around £12,000, for exhibition to investors, but it disappeared from her business premises on Sunday.

Richard Masters Pinsent Masons has appointed Richard Masters as chairman of company operations for Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Daradjeet Jagpal Daradjeet Jagpal gives a comprehensive overview of new data protection legislation.

Pictured (L-R): Nicholas James Scullion, Isabel McSeveney and Nicholas Scullion

An Italian woman who failed to find her soul mate has married herself in a ceremony which has no legal significance. Laura Mesi, 40, from Lissone near Milan spent €10,000 on her solo-wedding.

A student at Dundee Law School has been awarded the Ken Scott Bursary by Blackadders.