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Campbell Newell Trade mark specialist Marks & Clerk today said businesses should still seek expert advice ahead of Brexit, despite some clarity over industry issues post-split.

Clan Childlaw has called for the revised Named Person proposals to be scrapped, The Herald reports. The charity said in a response to Holyrood’s Education and Skills Committee, which is currently scrutinising the proposals, that the legislation will only make the system more complicated.

A local authority contracting organisation which raised an action against a quarry product supplier following a series of failed road repairs has had its damages claim dismissed. Tayside Contracts claimed that the chippings it purchased from D Geddes (Contractors) Limited for road surface dressing w

John Finnie MSP, justice spokesperson for the Scottish Greens (pictured), has today welcomed the support for his proposed member’s bill to give children equal protection from assault. A three-month public consultation on removing the defence of “justifiable assault” of children from Scots law,

Aamer Anwar The Law Society of Scotland has joined the widespread show of support for human rights solicitor Aamer Anwar, following a series of abusive messages in response to his eye witness account of last week’s terror attack in Barcelona.

A judge in the High Court in London has criticised Home Secretary Amber Rudd for failing to release a torture survivor from detention in spite of repeated court orders. At an emergency hearing yesterday, Mrs Justice Nicola Davies DBE said Mrs Rudd had provided "less than satisfactory reasons" for th

Keith Allan Stonehouse Lettings has announced the purchase of the residential leasing business of Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace (RCCW).

Martyn Shaw Martyn Shaw provides an update on the BHS saga.

Laura Salmond BTO Solicitors LLP has announced that it will be sponsoring black tie fundraising event the ‘Chance to Dance Ball’, which will take place on Friday 25 August at the Hilton Glasgow.

A man who refused to be treated by an optician following the Manchester terrorist attack because she was not white has been rebuked by a sheriff, The Scotsman reports. Eric Greene, 58, from Carluke, Lanarkshire, went to Specsavers in Lanark where he told trainee optician, Sarah Kerr, who is of India

A prisoner who was assaulted in jail after warning a prison officer that a fellow inmate had threatened to “smash his f****** Polish face in” is entitled to damages, the Court of Session has ruled. Keith Porter was convicted of attempted murder following the attack on Daniel Kaizer in December 2

There are 190 more 'placed applicants' for law at Scottish universities this year compared to 2016, an increase of 13 per cent to 1,640, from last year's figure of 1,450. Heather McKendrick, head of outreach and careers at the Law Society of Scotland, said: “Many students are drawn to studying law

The Law Society of Scotland has published new guidelines to help in-house solicitors who face pressure to give advice to someone other than their direct employer. The Who is your client? guide has been developed following feedback from the profession. It builds on the society’s existing Guide for

The European Commission is consulting on proposals to lower the fingerprinting age for children in the EU's Visa Information System (VIS). The changes would see children as young as six years old fingerprinted when applying for a visa to a country in the Schengen area, which includes most EU member

The UK’s first dedicated gluten-free microbrewery has achieved its fund raising target of £430,000 cash via equity to support its rapid expansion. The investment was led by the angel syndicate Equity Gap and was supported by Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise and