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Holyrood’s European Committee has called for a bespoke solution on Brexit that reflects Scotland’s majority vote to remain in the single market to be explored with the “EU 27” in negotiations before and after the UK government triggers Article 50. The committee’s report Determining Scotlan

A consultant cardiac surgeon who disputed a sheriff’s fatal accident inquiry finding over a “reasonable precaution” which the doctor could have taken whereby the death might have been avoided has had his legal challenge against the determination dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session refus

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Jamie Kerr Thorntons partner and immigration expert Jamie Kerr considers the implications of Brexit in this year’s SLN Annual Review.

Miles Briggs A Holyrood member's bill to introduce a law extending free care for dementia to patients under 65 will be launched in the summer, the Scottish Conservatives have announced.

Angela Grahame QC In July 1995, one week after I called to the bar, I went to the High Court in Airdrie to be the Crown junior in a two-week sitting. The Advocate Depute had a separate room, and one morning a very senior criminal silk came along to negotiate a plea for his client. As was the role of

NewLaw Scotland is celebrating its 10th birthday. The Scottish office of the highly-successful ABS law firm opened on 6th March 2007.

Chris West Gillespie Macandrew has beaten its revenue growth target after it took in fees of £11.36 million for the year to February 28 2017, unaudited reports show.

Almost 160 couples in a village in eastern China have filed for divorce in order to gain more compensation for the demolition of their homes. Residents of Jiangbei village in Nanjing face mass eviction as the Chinese government plans to raze their village to build a new hi-tech zone, Nanjing Morning

David Coutts

Lady Paton A man convicted of culpable homicide some 50 years ago who claimed that his human rights had been breached because he had not been given a reasonable opportunity to rehabilitate himself after being transferred from the state hospital to prison has had his legal challenge dismissed.

Pictured: Donald Reid (left) and David Adie

Katy Wedderburn MacRoberts partner Katy Wedderburn updates SLN readers on the Trade Union Act 2016.

Mark McDonald

A landmark ruling from the Supreme Court could see property developers across the UK spared paying business rates on properties they are refurbishing. Judges have decided that a building should not be charged full business rates as if it were fully usable when it was undergoing refurbishment.