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A sheriff in Dundee went on a tongue-in-cheek rant about Rangers Football Club during an assault trial, the Evening Telegraph reports. Sheriff George Way was presiding over the case of William Smith, 44, who had admitted an assault charge at his home in May.

Friday 28 July 2017 09:15

A Syrian man who had been granted refugee status in Bulgaria but claimed that to send him back there from the UK would breach his human rights has had his legal challenged dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session upheld a decision by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to certify the cl

Eilish Lindsay Eilish Lindsay discusses the perils of 'taps aff'.

Rosalind English 1 Crown Office Row have launched a new regular podcast, Law Pod UK, with presenter Rosalind English, to discuss developments across all aspects of civil and public law in the UK.

A sheriff has ruled that a family home that was built on a plot of land owned by one party to a marriage but which was not matrimonial property could be valued separately from the land for the purposes of calculating financial provision on divorce. The pursuer claimed that when the house was built o

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A new inquiry looking at the performance of employee-owned businesses following a sustained period of growth in their number over the past five years has launched a call for evidence. At a time when there is a significant focus on UK productivity, corporate behaviour and Brexit, the Ownership Effect

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) confirmed this week that it has received a new application to review the conviction in the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi. Mr Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the murder of the 259 passengers and crew on board Pan American World Airways

Digby Brown Solicitors has supported Spinal Injuries Scotland (SIS) barbeque and activities day for the third year running.

MacRoberts is now accepting traineeship applications and will be attending university fairs throughout Scotland.The firm will be attending the following law fairs in the period leading up to our closing date for 2019 traineeship applications at 12.00 noon on Monday 9 October 2017.

Saudi Arabia has made a multimillion dollar effort to export Wahhabism across the Islamic world and the West, including the UK, where it has funded mosques and Islamic educational institutions which in turn host Islamist extremist preachers and facilitate the distribution of extremist literature, ac