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Allan McDougall Solicitors has appointed Stephen Irvine as partner in its personal injury team. A highly experienced litigator, Mr Irvine has been handling personal injury cases, including medical negligence and industrial disease matters, for over 20 years.

Tracy Kirk makes the case for banning child smacking in Scotland. Should smacking a child be against the law? That’s the fierce debate reaching a vital stage in Scotland at present, where the Parliament’s Equalities Committee will announce on April 25 whether it will back legislation to

EU member states have two years to implement controversial new copyright laws following their adoption by the EU Council of Ministers. Ireland and the UK were among the 19 member states who voted in favour of the adoption of the EU Copyright Directive at yesterday's meeting, with just six countries

Eleanor Mannion and Laurie Anderson look back on the last 20 years of the minimum wage. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the official introduction of the National Minimum Wage in the United Kingdom. The concept, formally introduced in 1999, followed on from a century of development stemm

New Regulations will be drafted to modernise the current licensing system for domestic animals, rural affairs minister Mairi Gougeon said today. The announcement follows a positive response to a Scottish government consultation in which 96.8 per cent of respondents said they support the regulation o

A 40-year-old man whose parents allegedly binned his pornography collection, worth tens of thousands of pounds, has launched a court case against them. He had previously reported his parents to the police, but prosecutors in the US state of Indiana declined to press charges.

Tommy Sheridan has failed in an appeal to have his perjury conviction referred to the High Court of Justiciary to consider whether he suffered a “miscarriage of justice”. The Inner House of the Court of Session upheld a decision of the Lord Ordinary to dismiss th

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled again that the UK's blanket ban preventing serving prisoners from voting represents a violation of article 3 of protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – the right to free elections. The court declined, however, to a

The right to food should be enshrined in law in Scotland to protect people from rising food insecurity and the impacts of Brexit, according to a new report by the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC). The report, submitted to the Scottish government, also calls on public authorities to

Morisons' collapse came in the wake of a number of partner resignations, documents have shown. Administrators FRP Advisory's report states that the departures “would have resulted in a significant loss of both clients and turnover” at the firm, whose origins are in the 1860s.

Campaigners have raised fears over a fresh wave of asylum seeker evictions after a legal bid to prevent failed asylum seekers being evicted without a court order was dismissed by the Court of Session. The case against the Home Office and its contractor Serco was launched in the name of two women in

Tayside solicitor Kim Miller has passed away at the age of 70, The Courier reports. Mr Miller ran his own practice in Forfar with his wife, Iris, for more than 30 years.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a request to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan – a week after the US revoked the entry visa of ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, for looking into the selfsame issue. Announcing the decision, ICC judges cited Afghanistan's instabilit

Scotland's jail population is set to reach a record high of 8,500 this summer, The Times reports. There has been an eight per cent increase in the prison population to 8,200 in the past year, with overcrowding a widespread problem.

Brent Haywood looks at a case in which a student anti-abortion group was denied affiliation and how it availed itself of the Equality Act. In the field of human rights and equalities law the cases that grab the headlines are those where a judgment is delivered after a hard-fought legal battle in cou