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Robin Garlock, 44, did not foresee his girlfriend using the oven to make food.

A Ghanaian man studying nursing who was threatened by the Home Office with deportation has been granted permanent residence following a review. Denzel Darku, who lives in Paisley, and carried the Queen's baton before the 2014 Commonwealth Games said having the threat lifted is "a dream".

Malcolm Combe, a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and chair of the Scottish University Law Clinic Network, discusses the most recent gathering of law clinic experts. On 6 June 2018, students and staff from seven of Scotland’s universities met at the University of Dundee for the se

In recent years, businesses have been supporting Pride events in ever increasing numbers, as evidenced at last year’s Pride event in London which saw more than 50 corporates sign up as partners, including Starbucks, Virgin Atlantic and Barclays. Across the UK, businesses of all sizes from all

An 84-year-old woman says she will be “forever grateful” to the Faculty of Advocates’ pro bono unit and a volunteer QC who helped her win a court case over damage to her tenement home. The ceiling in the woman’s living room partially collapsed and cracks appeared in other cei

Finding Your Feet, which runs clubs all over the country for people who have lost limbs or were born with a limb difference, will run a new monthly climbing group at the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena, which boasts the largest indoor climbing wall in the world.    The move has been

A former NATO chief was denied an automatic visa waiver for entry to the US because records showed he had travelled to Iran – where he had assisted negotiations on Iran's nuclear deal with the West. Javiar Solana, a Spanish politician, was NATO secretary-general from 1995–99 and has held

A lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been given a four-year jail term for stealing the identities of immigrants who were facing deportation and using them to acquire credit cards and run up debts of more $190,300. Raphael Sanchez, 44, who was formerly the head of the ICE o

A man filed for divorce because his wife thought Cristiano Ronaldo was a better footballer than Lionel Messi.After celebrating Argentina's victory over Nigeria on June 26, husband Arsen left his wife of 14 years, Lyudmila, as she remained adamant that the Portugal star was the better player.Spe

A diabetic student has been awarded £2,000 in compensation after winning a discrimination case against a company that provided security staff at the music festival Tennent’s Vital in 2016. Kayla Hanna from south Belfast had her bottle of Lucozade confiscated by b

An international arrest warrant for former Catalan politician Professor Clara Ponsati has been withdrawn. Professor Ponsati, 61, an academic at St Andrews University, was arrested in March after she handed herself in to Police Scotland.

Doctors in the UK will be able to legally prescribe cannabis-derived medicinal products, though legislative amendments will be required in Northern Ireland before the change can be enforced. The Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said that products that meet the safety and quality standards are to be ma

Edinburgh Law School PhD candidate Álvaro García Martínez has been awarded the prize of "Laureate of the Arbitration Academy 2018". Mr Martínez was awarded the prize for his essay on the topic “Is there a need to reform the New York Convention of 10 June 1958?&rdquo

Via @thewssociety: Welcome to law student interns Elizabeth Olofsson @AberdeenUniLaw, Laura Crocker @UofGLaw & Andrew Clark @EdinburghNapier – starting their research on the impact of the 'Me Too' Movement on employment law.

A woman has availed herself of the ancient Norman rite of Clameur de Haro in an attempt to stop the narrowing of a road in Guernsey. Rosie Henderson invoked the clameur by kneeling and crying for help and reciting the Lord's Prayer, in Norman French.