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Dentons has announced its unaudited, headline FY17/18 results for the UK & Middle East region, with revenue of £203.1 million, an increase of 22 per cent on 16/17 (£166.4m). This figure only includes revenues from the legacy Maclay Murray & Spens offices since completion of the m

A Ghanaian man studying nursing who was threatened by the Home Office with deportation has been granted permanent residence following a review. Denzel Darku, who lives in Paisley, and carried the Queen's baton before the 2014 Commonwealth Games said having the threat lifted is "a dream".

An official opening of the refurbished Faculty library at the High Court in Glasgow has helped to give the west-coast criminal bar "the best facilities for many a long day".

A German whisky may be infringing protections enjoyed by Scotland, the Court of Justice of the European Union has said. The court took no final view on Glen Buchenbach, referring the Scotch Whisky Association's complaint back to judges in Germany for a ruling.

The Scottish Law Commission has recently issued a discussion paper, dealing with a number of aspects of the law of leases, and especially the termination of commercial leases. The Scottish Law Commission deserve more thanks than they often get for the efforts which they put into trying to improve an

A baby will become the first person without a legal mother if a transgender man succeeds in court. Lawyers for the parent told a judge that he had been born a female and had been biologically able to give birth but had legally become a man by the time the child was born.

The Tumbling Lassie operetta, which premiered in Edinburgh earlier this year, is set to be profiled at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival in August.

An additional £131,000 has been provided to allow further renovations of the Sir Walter Scott Courthouse to take place. Built in 1803 as the Sheriff Court, it is where the famed author dispensed justice to the people of Selkirkshire.

Artificial intelligence is able to predict the outcomes of trials with a high success rate, a paper published yesterday argues. The Brief reports that computers have correctly predicted 88 per cent of prosecution decisions in studies using American legal data and 82 per cent of outcomes in asylum ca

Following Mental Health Awareness Week in May, six brave people from TLT in Scotland are taking on the Tough Mudder challenge in Dumfries on Saturday 16 June to raise money for the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH). The 2018 Scotland Mud Run is a gruelling challenge involving ten miles o

It will be interesting to see whether the recent English case of Parkhurst Road Limited v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Another heard in the High Court at the end of April this year will have any impact in Scotland, writes Stephanie Mackenzie. The High Court upheld th

A Chinese asylum seeker who sought to challenge a decision by the Home Office to refuse to treat her further representations based on extracts from an expert’s report in another case as a “fresh claim” has had her application dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session considered th

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has lost an appeal to the UK Supreme Court in which it sought declarations that the current law on abortion in Northern Ireland is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights in cases of rape, incest, an

Gay and bisexual men in Scotland will receive automatic pardons for historical convictions for homosexuality. Under the Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) Bill, passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament, men will also have convictions of same-sex sexual activity that is now lega

Dentons has announced the appointment of Lisa Sewell as managing director for the UK & Middle East region, replacing Brandon Ransley, who retired earlier this year. Ms Sewell has over 20 years' experience in driving business performance and change in multinational organisations. She arrives foll