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David Flint David Flint and Rebecca Ferguson look at a second investigation into tech giant Google over exclusivity arrangements and other matters.

Philip Simpson QC The Supreme Court has today ruled that minimum unit pricing for alcohol, which was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2012, can now proceed.

The Scotch Whisky Association’s appeal against the legality of Scotland’s minimum pricing regime has been unanimously dismissed by justices in the Supreme Court who found its enabling legislation does not breach EU law and that it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. T

A homeowner involved in a legal dispute with a Scottish local authority has won his appeal after arguing that the council acted beyond its powers in imposing a condition attached to the award of grant assistance, which required property owners to pay their share of the cost of repairs to their tenem

Professor Stephen Tierney of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law places the opening debates on the Brexit legislation in a wider context.

Catherine Dyer Former Crown Office chief executive Catherine Dyer will head up an expert group on preventing sexual offending involving young people.

Janys Scott QC Family law specialists in Scotland have thrown their weight behind a call to change the Brexit blueprint, which they fear would cause “unfairness and confusion” for families.

Clear lines of accountability are “absolutely essential” to avoid major IT failures in the future, a Holyrood committee has warned today. In a letter to the Scottish government, the Public Audit and Post-Legislative Scrutiny Committee said there was some confusion over who is ultimately responsi

Paul Mosson The Law Society of Scotland has appointed Paul Mosson (pictured) as its new executive director for member services.

Some of you will be old enough to remember songs and poems like this from your primary days. Things like The Next Stop Is Kirkcaldy. Even as a kid, I never felt entirely comfortable with the Cooper one. Basically about wife beating. Strange. Anyway, what is all this you will be wondering. Cupar. Fif

A lawyer who ruled in the Rangers tax case ordered the bulk of his £4 million fortune be used to help with the education of the people on a Hebridean island. Kenneth Mure QC willed millions of pounds to charity on his death last year at the age of 69. Mr Mure was a member of the three-person tribun

A suite of free courses on law in Scotland have been released by The Open University. The courses – The Scottish Parliament and law-making, Scottish courts and the law, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, and Law and change: Scottish legal heroes – come twenty years on from the historic vote f

Scott Whyte (left) and Donald Wright

Fraser Gillies Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has joined one of the world’s largest multi-disciplinary

Susanne Godfrey and Murray McCall