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A partner in Balfour+Manson has been honoured for his outstanding contribution to personal injury law – joining a colleague as one of only three lawyers to receive ...

The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has spoken to The Herald about his family's past in Nazi Germany. On a visit to the Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow, ...

Plans for a women's custody unit in Dundee have been submitted by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). If approved, the community custody unit (CCU) will open in ...

Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner has launched an investigation into whether Facebook is breaching the GDPR by failing to fulfil requests to hand over information it collects about users' ...

The Herald has published an obituary of Donald Sage Mackay, Lord Mackay of Drumadoon, who passed away last week at the age of 72. His earliest legal ...

The government of Ukraine has lodged a new application with the European Court of Human Rights against Russia. The case concerns the detention and prosecution of Ukrainian nationals ...

The Scottish government's newly published national action plan on parental involvement, parental engagement, family learning and learning at home 2018-2021 includes various commitments to improve engagement of ...

A criminal lawyer has been convicted of a drink-driving offence for the third time, the Daily Record reports. Martha Rafferty, 58, who was accused of failing to ...

Household products giant Procter & Gamble is facing an uphill battle to trademark popular textspeak acronyms including "OMG", "LOL" and "WTF". The multinational said it wants to ...

The venerable Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and its premises in Parliament House are among the jewels in the crown of Scotland’s legal ...

The case of a former prosecutor who is suing the Lord Advocate for £1.3 million over claims she suffered stress may proceed to a full hearing, a ...

Former First Minister Alex Salmond has launched judicial review proceedings in the Court of Session against the Scottish government over its handling of sexual misconduct claims made ...

The Glasgow Solicitors Property Centre (GSPC) has gone into liquidation, leading to the loss of nine jobs. Administrators KPMG attributed its failure to the "tightening" of the ...