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Solicitors in Dunbartonshire have explained why they joined their colleagues across Scotland in withdrawing from the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s police station duty scheme. On Thursday, new laws will come into force entitling anyone who faces police questioning to legal advice, regardless of whethe

Alison Saunders The Director of Public Prosecutions has said remaining silent during a rape could be evidence of consent.

Tuesday 30th January at 5-6pm New King's 6

Katie Russell Shepherd and Wedderburn’s employment team has collaborated with 30 leading law firms across Europe to produce the European Employment Law Update for 2018.

Lord Hope of Craighead A newly-introduced policy on bullying and harassment has received a strong endorsement from one of the Faculty of Advocates’ most acclaimed former leaders.

Some solicitors have expressed concern about what they claim to be the Law Society of Scotland’s “lack of dialogue” with the legal profession over the approval of its proposed regulatory scheme for alternative business structures (ABS) and the society's progress as a regulator of ABS. ABS allo

Kenneth Stanley

A rape prosecution against a student has collapsed after police admitted errors in gathering evidence. Oliver Mears 19, a student at Oxford University, was on bail for two years after he was accused of raping a teenage woman after a party in 2015.

A Cameroonian woman who claimed she would be subject to forced marriage and female genital mutilation if she were returned to Cameroon has been granted permission to appeal in her bid for asylum. A judge in the Court of Session granted leave to appeal after ruling that the challenge had “substanti

Professor Ross Deuchar

The post-Brexit role of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) must be spelled out clearly and the status of its judgments left in no doubt, the Faculty of Advocates has submitted. The UK government has said that leaving the EU will “bring about an end to the direct jurisdiction of the

A man, known as 'Victim D', who suffered abuse at the hands of his mother as a child is suing a victims’ charity over missed compensation, The Herald reports. Victim D’s mother was jailed for five years in 2011 for subjecting her son to abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.

A man convicted of murdering his wife who has been seeking to challenge his former employer’s decision to award him a reduced pension has had his case dismissed. David Lilburn, 54, who is currently incarcerated at the State Hospital in Carstairs after being sentenced to life imprisonment with a pu

Wed 31 January 2018 18:00 – 19:30 GMT

A majority of major UK and US law firms are vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a recent survey by cybersecurity experts. Researchers who surveyed 50 of the biggest firms across the two countries found most firms store data and document servers on premises, making them more vulnerable.