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A new competition has been launched to tap in to the expertise of the Scottish legal community and improve risk management across the profession. The Law Society of Scotland's Innovation Cup encourages innovation amongst Scottish solicitors, trainees, cash-room staff, paralegals and students invitin

Michael Matheson MSPs have voted unanimously to endorse the general principles of the Scottish government’s Historic Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) (Scotland) Bill at stage one.

James Wolffe QC MSPs will be asked to support plans to establish the UK’s first safe injection room for drug addicts in Glasgow, the BBC reports.

Byron Nurse Dentons has advised C&C Group plc, owner of drink brands such as Bulmers in Ireland and Magners and Tennent’s in the UK, on its acquisition of Matthew Clark (Holdings) Limited and Bibendum PLB (Topco) Limited from Conviviality Brands Limited, a subsidiary of Conviviality plc. Convi

Alan Delaney Employment law specialist Alan Delaney has joined Morton Fraser as a legal director in its employment law team.

The owners of a Speyside whisky distillery who claimed that the development of a new wind farm in Banffshire was “unlawful” on the basis that the construction works did not begin within the five-year time limit imposed upon the developer have had their legal challenge dismissed. William Grant &a

The Parole Board for Scotland has appointed a number of lawyers as both legal and general members. Solicitors Kathryn Dawson and Julia Maclaren and academic Gillian McIvor, professor of criminology at Stirling University, have been appointed as general members.

Project Title: The Europeanisation of International Private Law – Implications of Brexit for Children and Families in Scotland The Ph.D. will examine the Europeanisation of international family law rules in Scotland, and will assess the legal consequences and implications for children and families

Thursday 26 April 2018 17:30 – 19:00

According to Advocate General Wathelet, EUIPO must re-examine whether the three-dimensional shape of the ‘Kit Kat 4 fingers’ product may be maintained as an EU trade mark. He proposes that the appeals brought by Nestlé, EUIPO and Mondelez be dismissed and states that Nestle did not adduce suffi

A 62 -year-old woman who was the first juror to be prosecuted under the Bribery Act 2010, has been sentenced to six years in prison. Catherine Leahy served on a jury in a drug trafficking and money laundering trial which returned a not proven verdict in April 2016 following three days of deliberatio

Ten solicitors were struck off from the profession last year, the latest annual report from the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal shows. Of the 30 cases in 2017, there were 21 findings of professional misconduct.

Whistleblowing employees who report that their employers are cheating on industry standards tests or avoiding corporation tax would be conferred special legal status under a draft EU law. Next week, the European Commission will propose legislation meant to protect whistleblowers – proponents of wh

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