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The Scotsman has published a full obituary for Roanne Dods, a dancer, Scots lawyer and arts producer who passed away last month at the age of 52. Ms Dods read law at Edinburgh University and specialised in urgent litigation around family violence before embarking on a creative career and ultimately

Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre (pictured), has been appointed co-vice chair for the International Bar Association Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee.

Two board members and a new chair have taken up their posts at the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCR), the organisation that looks into alleged miscarriages of justice. New chair, Bill Matthews, is a former senior executive with Motorola who subsequently spent a number of years in the

Professor Dame Sue Black and her team at the University of Dundee’s Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) have reconstructed the face of a Pictish man they showed to have been brutally murdered 1,400 years ago. Archaeologists excavating a cave in the Black Isle, Ross-shire, found the

The man convicted of the murder of school girl Paige Doherty has had his sentence reduced following an appeal after claiming that the punishment part imposed was “excessive”. John Leathem was sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 27 years after pleading guilty to the murder of

Under Directive 93/42 on medical devices, a notified body involved in the procedure related to the EC declaration of conformity is not under a general obligation to carry out unannounced inspections, to examine devices and/or to examine the manufacturer’s business records. However, where it is pre

Dominic Grieve A former Attorney General, Lord Chancellor and Director of Public Prosecutions have written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urging him to reconsider his approach to a British father on death row in Ethiopia.

Willie Rennie A police watchdog has come in for fierce criticism after it tried to get a report into its ailing finances watered down before publication.

Women in Law

Colin Clelland discusses two important points regarding NEC 3 contracts following a recent Court of Session case. In recent years, the NEC 3 form of engineering and construction contract has increasingly been used to procure major engineering and infrastructure projects. It is, however, a contract t

Andrea Young Macdonald Henderson has advised Old College Capital, Edinburgh University’s in-house venture capital fund, in its investment with Leslie Benzies in a six-figure funding round by the Edinburgh-based audio technology specialist Krotos.

Border by Kapka Kassabova This is a magical book and one of the very, very few to open up the wild and forgotten lands of ancient Thrace that straddle that corner of Europe where Turkey meets Bulgaria and Greece.

Campaigners have thanked the Faculty of Advocates’ pro bono service for helping to save a library from closure. North Lanarkshire Council had threatened to axe Newarthill Library, but local opposition was strong and a group was formed to fight the plans.

The Court of Session has refused an application for leave to appeal against an £800,000 award made by an arbitrator following a dispute between parties to a construction contract. A judge dismissed the bid for a proposed “legal error appeal” in terms of rules 69 and 70 of the Scottish Arbitrati

A Swedish couple had an unexpected climax to their kinky love-making session when they had to call the cops after losing the keys for their handcuffs. It was not a happy ending for the couple when they were unable to open the steel cuffs.