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The UK government must clearly and urgently articulate how it will ensure the widespread enforceability of UK court judgments in EU member states after Brexit, a new report argues. The impact of Brexit on the UK-based legal services sector, published by TheCityUK, stresses the importance of the Engl

Lisa Gregory Digby Brown partner Lisa Gregory has been appointed president of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen.

A gangmaster pair in Kent have agreed a settlement of more than £1 million in legal costs and compensation with migrants in a landmark modern-day slavery case.Darrell Houghton and his wife Jacqueline Judge must make the payouts to six Lithuanian chicken catchers trafficked to work on farms that pro

Efforts to protect migrant children who are separated from their parents but travelling with other adults are hampered by a lack of information and guidance, an EU report has found. The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said in its latest report on migration-related fundamental rights in select

A man found guilty of assault and robbery who claimed that a sheriff’s warning to a witness about potential prevarication or perjury restricted his defence lawyer’s ability to cross-examine the witness has had an appeal against his conviction refused. The appellant argued that there had been a �

Forfar Sheriff Court (credit: Google Street View) A health board’s “total silence” over the death of a baby has prompted concern from a sheriff conducting a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the incident, The Courier reports.

Kevin Stewart A new law which requires local public services to involve communities in their work comes into force today.

Professor Gary Slapper The Times has published a full obituary for Professor Gary Slapper, who passed away on December 4 the age of 58 after suffering a ruptured aortic dissection.

Nicola Sturgeon A paper examining proposals to keep Scotland in the European Single Market has been published by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

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The Court of Appeal in Belfast is to rule on the whether or not it is defamatory to describe someone as a "Scrooge". The question is part of a current appeal by the Sunday World newspaper which is seeking to reverse a £50,000 libel award to a Co Down businessman it referred to as a “Scrooge”.

John McKinlay DLA Piper is advising HEINEKEN UK on its proposed acquisition of Punch Securitisation A, a portfolio of approximately 1,900 UK pubs owned by Punch Taverns plc (enterprise value £1.15 billion).

Terra Firma Chambers is delighted to support local charity Kids Love Clothes this Christmas.Kids Love Clothes provide struggling families with young children in Edinburgh and the Lothians with a wardrobe’s worth of quality, donated clothes, ironed and packed in giftbags. The charity is run entirel

Pictured (L-R): Ken Linton from Trussell Trust with Pat Rourke, Lucy Rourke, Joyce Sturrock and Lisa Mannion with Thorntons donation.

The Muslim man convicted of the “religiously motivated” murder of a Glasgow shopkeeper because of his membership of the Ahmadi sect of Islam has failed in an appeal against his sentence. Tanveer Ahmed, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 27 years after pleading guilt