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A punter who placed a £100 bet at odds of 2500/1 for “Rangers to be relegated” from the Scottish Premier League has had his £250,000 claim against the bookmakers rejected after the company refused to pay out. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the simple, natural and ordinary meaning o

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George Frier Shepherd and Wedderburn has acted for AIM listed Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group in arranging a five-year revolving credit facility with HSBC Bank plc. Almost contemporaneously, it acted for the company in its latest acquisitions in Australia and Norway.

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Carol Brennan The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission’s Consumer Panel has set out its vision of how the internationally recognised principles for consumer protection should apply to legal services to mark International Consumer Rights Day.

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A 40-year-old case on the effect of arrestment of a company’s property following the appointment of a receiver was “wrongly decided”, a five-judge bench has ruled. The Inner House of the Court of Session held that the court in the 1977 case Lord Advocate v Royal Bank of Scotland, which ruled t

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A telephone subscriber’s consent to the publication of his data also covers its use in another member state, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. The highly harmonised regulatory framework makes it possible to ensure throughout the EU the same respect for requirements relating to

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Graham Ogilvy (pictured) eisits Bologna’s famed law school in troubling times.ry The waiter who plonked a carafe of cheap Sangiovese down on our table at the little restaurant off Bologna’s Via Malcontenti spoke flawless English.

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Five members of the Faculty of Advocates have been named in new advocate-depute appointments by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. Those chosen for the role of Crown Counsel are Michael Meehan and Duncan McPhie (from 27 March), Owen Mullan (from 10 April), Maryam Labaki (from 24 April)

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The creation of online courts will result in more unrepresented defendants and defeat the principle of open justice, according to a legal think tank. Transform Justice has today published a report warning that the Mnistry of Justice’s £1 billion court reform programme for England and Wales makes

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The mother of a child who was placed in the care of a couple later approved as kinship carers has successfully challenged a decision to make an order for the adoption of her daughter. The Inner House of the Court of Session ruled that the decision of the sheriff to make the adoption order and dispen

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