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Stephen Gold As someone brought up with very little money, whose life has been enhanced beyond measure by education, news of further decline in the literacy and numeracy of Scotland’s children feels very personal to me. But at least social attitudes have much improved since I was a child.

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Paula Skinner Harper Macleod has advised a Glasgow-based fintech business on a six-figure investment, the first to be completed with the help of a new Glasgow City Council scheme designed to help SMEs scale up.

John Scott MSP Holyrood's law reform committee has recommended MSPs back a bill providing a new statutory framework for third party rights.

National law firm Shoosmiths has announced six new partners in the firm's May promotions. They are joined by 18 new senior associates across the UK, including two in Edinburgh.

One of the UK’s top academic experts on EU law has confirmed she will be speaking in Edinburgh on what Brexit will mean for EU nationals in Scotland. Professor Eleanor Spaventa, from Durham University European Law Institute (pictured right) will be taking part in a major conference on ‘Brexit an

Jackie Baillie The chair of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) appears to have “behaved inappropriately”, according to a Holyrood committee.

Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing The Scottish Parliament is set to consider forestry legislation for the first time in its history following the introduction of a Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Bill.

Pictured (L-R): Professor Eric Bergsten, president of the Willem C. Vis moot with three members of the RGU team, Jennifer Lambart, Roy Janho and Annabelle Macpherson.

Cancer Research Racquet – the international group of US, UK & EU legal professionals who raise money for cancer research – has announced it is returning to Edinburgh on Friday 26 May, for its third annual fundraiser event in Scotland. This year, the event will raise funds jointly for Cancer

An air carrier which is unable to prove that a passenger was informed of the cancellation of his flight more than two weeks before the scheduled time of departure is required to pay compensation to that passenger – this applies not only when the contract for carriage was concluded directly between

A billionaire has been ordered to pay £453 million to his ex-wife in the UK's biggest divorce award. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, sitting in the Family Division of the High Court in London yesterday, awarded her 41.5 per cent of the couple's £1 billion “marital assets”, The Times reports.

Pictured (l-r): Jonathan Brown, Susan Stokeld, Christine Brownlie and Callum Thomson

A Scottish local authority involved in arbitration proceedings with a building company following a dispute over a construction contract has had an application for a court order prohibiting disclosure of the identity of the parties refused. A judge in the Court of Session noted that the names of the