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A town council has scrapped its long-standing ban on snowball fights after a sustained campaign by a local nine-year-old. Dane Best, who lives in Severance, a small town in the US state of Colorado, found out about the obscure, largely unenforced law during a school trip to the town hall.

Today, Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona released his 26-page Opinion on the question whether the UK can revoke the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU. His view is that the CJEU should decide that it can and that it should declare that Article 50 of the Treaty

Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, according to an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union.  At the request of various MSPs, MPs and MEPs, the Inner House of the Court of Session, asks the Court of

A woman found guilty of assaulting another woman to her severe injury and permanent disfigurement by repeatedly punching and kicking her on the head and body after the jury deleted from the libel the words “and strike her head against vivarium and repeatedly strike her on the body with glass&r

Professor Steven Peers of University of Essex School of Law explains and comments on today's opinion from Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona on the revocability of Article 50. Was sending the Article 50 notification of withdrawal from the EU like jumping off a cliff – impossible to c

Scotland's prison population increased by nine per cent and its remand population by 19 per cent, while the number of prison places has risen by 23 per cent between 2005 and 2015, a report from the Council of Europe shows. The in Prisons in Europe, 2005-2015 report includes data on ten-year trends i

A revision of the law governing motorsports events has been proposed in an attempt to bring them back to Scotland's roads. Organisers have been unable to secure insurance since three spectators died at the Jim Clark Rally in the Borders three years ago.

Advocate Laurence Kennedy has been appointed to the IMPRESS Arbitration Panel. Mr Kennedy, who is also an experienced tribunal judge, is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He started his career as a solicitor in 1995 and called to the bar in 2000.

The number of English and Welsh solicitors applying to join the Irish roll of solicitors has "surged again" in 2018, according to new figures from the Law Society of Ireland. A total of 601 solicitors from England and Wales joined the Irish roll in 2018, and 156 more applications are currently being

A woman whose husband was killed in Kenya has called for the role of the UK government in the "unfair" prosecution and trial of the "innocent" man convicted of killing him to be investigated. Judith Tebbutt, a British tourist kidnapped in Kenya in 2011 with her husband David, who was kille

A doctor has been fined £14,000 for operating an illegal gender identity clinic, where she treated children as young as 12, The Times reports. Helen Webberley, 49, treated children at her home clinic, charging £75 to £150 an hour to patients who sought gender reassignment.

Public authorities have intervened to prevent a French couple from naming their baby boy Griezmann Mbappe after France's two World Cup winners. The couple have been referred to the French public prosecutor, according to the mayor of Brive-la-Gaillarde, a small town in southwest France.

The UK will find itself in a "constitutional crisis" if the Prime Minister fails to publish the legal advice she has been given on her Brexit deal, according to Labour. Theresa May says that the advice is confidential, though some MPs believe that ministers simply want to avoid admitting the deal bi

A tribunal is to address the question of whether veganism qualifies as a "philosophical belief" in a landmark legal case. Jordi Casamitjana said he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after revealing it invested pension funds in animal testing firms.