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Infringements on freedom of religion indicate the early signs of violent conflict, a United Nations special rapporteur has said. Speaking at an event in New York on the importance of the freedom of religion acting as an overall indicator of human rights protections, Ahmed Shaheed said

A law firm in Edinburgh has signed up to write wills for charity – for the fourteenth year in a row.

Authorities in northern India have come under pressure to prosecute a troop of monkeys who stoned a man to death. Dharampal Singh, 72, was pelted with bricks and stones by the aggressive simians and later died in hospital.

Time is running out for any delegates who have not yet registered for the Scots Law 2018 Conference/Exhibition which will take place at BT Murrayfield Stadium on 29 & 30 October. Roy Spiers, CLT Scotland’s Director of Programmes, said: “With the end of October also marking the end of

A man found guilty of driving his car at a cyclist who had stolen his girlfriend’s bike and causing him severe injury before punching the thief’s friend has had his conviction quashed following an appeal. The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court ruled that there had been a &ld

A judge has condemned a prison authority's decision to deprive an elderly accused man of a wheelchair. Seventy-seven-year-old Edward Cairney, who, along with Avril Jones, 58, is accused of murdering Margaret Fleming, was due to appear in court to apply for bail after their trial collapsed. The two d

Mattac, a new law firm providing a range of services including estate agency, conveyancing, litigation, wills and personal injury has launched in Edinburgh. The firm aims to offer a fresh approach to legal services, with a focus on transparency, accessibility and a 'plain English’ approach.

Murray Beith Murray partner Ruthven Gemmell has been awarded the Austrian Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, one of the nation’s highest honours.

Morton Fraser has appointed agricultural law specialist Linsey Barclay-Smith as a partner to its agricultural and rural property team. Ms Barclay-Smith, who has over 20 years of experience in agricultural and rural property law at firms including Turcan Connell and Thorntons LLP, is one of

The European Court of Justice has ordered Poland to reverse the forced retirement of 27 Supreme Court judges pending the outcome of a court battle over the compatibility of its judicial reforms with EU law. The court granted a request from the European Commission to order Poland to immediately suspe

A new litigation finance body has launched a bond for ordinary investors to provide the money for lawsuits, with a view to reaping the rewards of successful cases. The litigation bond within an individual savings account, from Just Isa, aims to raise money for lawsuits against banks and profess

Insurance policy documents are so hard to understand that university-level reading abilities may be required to make sense of them and even industry experts struggle to cut through the jargon, according to a Which? investigation. The consumer organisation used readability software to analyse 40

Four Scotland-based legal tech companies have been selected to go on a trade mission to Zurich and Vienna, with the delegation being led by the Law Society of Scotland. Supported by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and organised by the Department for International Trade (DIT) and Scottish Development I

Pictured: Martin Ewan (right) receives the award from TechX’s technology accelerator manager Stuart MacKinven. Pinsent Masons has been named partner of the year by the Oil & Gas Technology Centre’s (OGTC) accelerator programme TechX.

A man who allegedly dipped his rear end in a holy water fountain while high on meth has been arrested. Zachary Burdick, 21, is said to have disgraced himself in the Spirit of Life Church in Mandan, North Dakota during Mass on a Tuesday morning.