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Professor Philippe Sands QC (pictured) has won the Baillie Gifford prize for his book East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.He said he would share the £30,000 prize with his fellow shortlisted author Hisham Matar and that the pair would be donating the money to a

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Bob Neill A senior barrister MP and head of Westminster’s Justice Committee has written that lawyers south of the border should prepare for a fused profession.

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The law providing that alleged rape victims are not required to disclose their sexual history will be reviewed following the Ched Evans case. Mr Evans, 27, was acquitted of rape at a retrial last month. His accuser’s sexual history was disclosed to the defence as the Court of Appeal deemed the cas

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A Tunisian man has had his article 8 appeal against a deportation order unanimously dismissed by judges in the Supreme Court because the material available to the Home Secretary could admit of no conclusion other than it was unlikely in the extreme that he would develop a relationship with his child

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The Faculty of Advocates has aided an inquiry into Scotland’s prosecution service with “insightful” oral evidence to MSPs.Derek Ogg QC, and Michael Meehan represented the Faculty at Holyrood's Justice Committee, which is examining the role and purpose of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal

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in the competition was that candidates should be under 35 years of age. In the view of M. Salaberria Sorondo, who was more than 35 years old when he participated in the competition, there were no reasonable grounds for the age limit imposed by the notice restricting access to the public service. Mr

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Brian Moore Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) advised FreeAgent Holdings plc (FreeAgent), a provider of cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) accounting software solutions and mobile applications designed specifically for UK micro-businesses, on its £34.1 million flotation on London's Alternat

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McEwan Fraser Legal has come forward to offer funding to the Amputee Football Association Scotland (AFAS) who have been desperately seeking the means to ensure that a team of players will be able to attend the England Amputee Football Association (EAFA) Championships in Limerick in March 2017. Aware

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