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Lawyers can still book a place at a seminar to be held next Monday on the workings of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. Top experts will explain the legislation and highlight the key issues for all those involved in using the new rights.

Robert Burns found his friendship with Writer to the Signet Robert Ainslie to be "almost necessary to my existence". Robert Pirrie, chief executive of the WS Society, reveals how the Scottish bard and the Edinburgh lawyer formed an enduring friendship as their remarkably candid correspondence b

Joanne Cruickshank Joanne Cruickshank has joined Morton Fraser as legal director in its residential property team.

UK statutory sick pay as well as government help for jobless and self-employed people breach international obligations, a European committee has ruled. The European Committee of Social Rights, a monitoring body of the Council of Europe, described the money available to people claiming statutory sick

Kirstin Nee DUAL Asset Underwriting Limited has been nominated for the Innovation in Practice accolade at 2018 Scottish Legal Awards.

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ed. Whether the appellant had administered a drug to her had very little, if any, bearing on that central issue. In so far as the jury may have been given an impression of the Crown’s lingering suspicion, that could only have had a conceivable bearing, as reflecting on the appellant’s character,

The number of prosecutions that have collapsed because of a failure by prosecutors or police to disclose evidence has risen by 70 per cent in the past two years, the BBC reports. In 2017, 916 people had charges against them dropped because evidence had not been disclosed, a dramatic increase on 2014

Mary Sharpe The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wrote to the chairs of the FTSE 100 and other large companies last month stating it will take legal action where there is evidence of systemic failure to prevent, or deal with, sexual harassment.

Sam Smethers A major report by the Fawcett Society has found that the legal systems across the UK are failing women and in need of fundamental reform.

Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre, has been appointed co-chair of the International Bar Association Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee.

Alan Rodgers Thompsons Solicitors has announced the appointment of Alan Rodgers as a partner.

The Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee has endorsed the Islands Bill in a new report but said it is vital that the actual priorities of Islanders are reflected in the National Islands Plan that will follow the bill. The committee recommends:

DWF is sponsoring the annual Lord Jones Mooting Competition for the second year. The intervarsity competition will be held on Saturday 27th January 2018 at the Scrymgeour Building at the University of Dundee. Teams of law students from universities across Scotland will compete against each other to