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

Douglas Reid

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

Nelson Mandela (left) and Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi As the 28th Anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing approaches on 21st December Justice for Megrahi, the single issue justice campaign group which believes that the 2001 conviction of Abdeelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (pictured with Nelson Mand

Murray McCall Anderson Strathern is negotiating a merger deal that would see it make an entry into the Aberdeen market.

John Brett (left) and Shane Presley

Christopher Lindley Christopher Lindley explains how new agricultural holdings provisions will work.

Michael Matheson Air weapons owners who haven’t yet applied for a licence need to decide now what they will do with their firearm when new laws come into effect on 31 December.

Gordon Jackson QC (left) and Donald Findlay QC

Judges in the Court of Session have ordered the independence campaigners battling an eviction bid by Holyrood to have them removed from its grounds to pay £105,000 in legal bills. Lady Dorrian, the Lord Justice Clerk, sitting with Lord Malcolm and Lord Glennie ordered the “indie campers” to pay

Lauren Daly The Living Wage Foundation has announced that Fords Daly Legal (FDL), has today been accredited as a "Living Wage" employer.