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A lawyer who spent 15 years re-enacting episodes of TV quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? was finally invited to compete in the real thing – and walked away with the top prize. Hamburg lawyer Jan Stroh, 35, watched all 1,407 episodes of the German version of the famous TV show, Wer Wird

The Bar Council has partnered with a Silicon Valley company to create an app for barristers to report bullying and sexual harassment. Talk to Spot will be rolled out this autumn and follows reports this year of widespread inappropriate behaviour at the bar.

After 35 years last month in the profession, 20 of them spent in senior management positions, including client relations manager, in a large firm practising in the higher risk areas of executries, litigation, family and residential conveyancing, I thought it would take more than a determination from

The Crown Prosecution Service is "in denial" about declining rape prosecutions and convictions, the victims' watchdog has told The Times. Recent figures from the CPS show that while recorded rapes have increased over the past six years to 58,657 in 2018, charges, prosecutions and convictions for the

A Crown Court case collapsed after a woman accidentally joined the jury, The Telegraph reports. Judge Jonathan Seely at Chelmsford Crown Court said he had never seen anything like it in his career.

Advocate Niall McCluskey is completing the New Year's Day triathlon in Edinburgh for charity Support in Mind Scotland. Support in Mind Scotland works to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people affected by serious mental illness.

A man who says he was encouraged to try homosexuality by an iPhone app has launched a lawsuit against Apple for "moral suffering" because he ended up with a boyfriend. The plaintiff said he received an anonymous payment of 69 "GayCoins" on a cryptocurrency payment app, accompanied with a message alo

A new eight-part true crime podcast series revisits the murder of Melanie Sturton in Aberdeen 20 years ago. Ms Sturton, 22, was murdered in 1999 by her upstairs neighbour Pamela Gourlay, then 19, who was subsequently convicted in the High Court.

TC Young has announced that partner Jim Bauld has become the first solicitor in Scotland to be accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in housing and residential tenancy law. This is a new specialism which has recently been approved by the society and the application to have t

A "tough stance" from judges after the Daily Mail's infamous "enemies of the people" front page dissuaded the British press from further public attacks on the bench, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has said. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd told The Brief that the papers had backed down af

Ewan McIntyre, partner at Burness Paull and expert in professional negligence and financial services litigation with over 25 years’ experience, is currently enjoying a secondment with Racine, one of the main independent French law firms, in its Lyon office. That something might be mo

Law lecturer Malcolm Combe has announced he is taking up a new post at the University of Strathclyde in December. Mr Combe, a solicitor and senior lecturer in law at the University of Aberdeen, admitted in a blog post that it "will be a wrench to leave" the north-eastern city after more than eight y

Thompsons has announced a number of promotions. Seonaid Brophy from the firm's trade union accident team has been promoted to partner.

A petition to extend adoption rights to people over the age of 18 has been closed. Campaigners said they are "disappointed" that the Scottish Parliament's Petition's Committee has ended its consideration of the petition on adult adoption.

Protesters are calling on Serbia's finance minister to resign after it emerged that he had plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis. Ivanka Popovic, Dean of Belgrade University, has confirmed that Sinisa Mali's doctorate will be annulled.