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The Faculty of Advocates is teaming up again with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in a second medico-legal debate, examining assisted suicide. In the first collaboration earlier this year, the spotlight fell on the implications and lessons of the Bawa-Garba case, in which a doctor was c

The BBC must pay Sir Cliff Richard more than £1 million after an application to appeal against a ruling was dismissed. The broadcaster agreed to pay £850,000 of Sir Cliff's legal costs, which will be covered by the license fee.

The latest novel in Willie McIntyre's Best Defence series hits shelves next month. In the ninth book in the tartan noir series, Stitch Up, everything is coming up roses for Robbie Munro, newly married and living in the country with wife and child.

Pictured (L to R): Douglas Roberts (Corporate Partner at Lindsays ), Dr.Dayna Galloway, Kate Wyatt, and Iain Penman (dispute resolution and litigation director at Lindsays) Lindsays has been announced as a key sponsor in Abertay University’s Dare Academy games design competition.

Ledingham Chalmers' Linda Tinson and colleagues are tackling the Great Glen Challenge in aid of RSABI next month. Established as a one-day team challenge for rural businesses and organisations, teams of four people will compete against each other along designated stages between Fort Augustus and For

Blackadders has sponsored Kirriemuir Bowling Club with associate solicitor Susie Clark saying she is passionate about the contribution local clubs, such as Kirrie’s, make to their communities.

New Zealand has passed legislation giving domestic violence victims 10 days' paid leave to allow them to find a new home and leave their partners, The Guardian reports. The bill passed on Wednesday night by 63 votes to 57 and is the result of seven years of work by Jan Logie, a Green MP who pre

A defence lawyer has condemned the recent review into Scotland's legal aid system, suggesting its author lacks a “basic understanding of the realities of business”. Writing in The Journal, Ken Dalling, a member of the Law Society of Scotland Council, said Martyn Evans had made the m

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Irish High Court was justified in delaying the extradition to Poland of a man suspected of drug trafficking because of concerns about political interference with the Polish judiciary. The court found yesterday that domestic courts mu

Pictured (L-R): Back - Steven Drake, Colin Graham, Thomas Redpath, Stuart Mackie, Anneli Spence. Front - Lynsay McFarlane, Megan Sweeney, Chris Gardiner, Joanne Clancy, Lynne Macintyre Thorntons has made 10 promotions – two senior solicitors have been promoted to associates and nine solicitors

Scotland has a new Public Guardian and Accountant of Court with the appointment of Fiona Brown, who succeeds Sandra McDonald. Ms Brown has been Deputy Public Guardian and Accountant of Court (AoC) since 2015 having moved to the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) after a career in the court service

A family from Paisley has secured damages of £247,000 after losing their mother to the asbestos disease mesothelioma. This is the first time in Scotland in which a case has been successfully pursued on behalf of someone who suffered from secondary exposure to asbestos from their spouse’s

The latest statistics from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) for the first quarter of 2018-19 show total personal insolvencies, which include both bankruptcies and protected trust deeds (PTDs), rose by 11.8 per cent relative to the first quarter of 2017-18. Bankruptcy awards are down 6.5 per c

A recent widely reported settled claim by a hospitality worker highlighted the controversy that continues to persist with Zero Hour Contracts (ZHC).  Kenny Scott considers the issues that often surround this form of employment arrangement and highlights why ZHC’s still have an import