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Lindsay Urquhart Lindsay Urquhart discusses the consequences for companies of the ECJ's Safe Harbour ruling.

Maggie Moodie The Scottish government has re-appointed Morton Fraser to provide its debt recovery services. It awarded the firm the first contract from its expanded Legal Services Framework which went live in August.

Ashley Hurst Online retail giant Amazon filed papers on Friday against more than 1,000 people in the United States who allegedly posted “false, misleading and inauthentic” online reviews of its products.

Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland QC Two new Libyan suspects have been identified by prosecutors in Scotland and the US over the 1998 Lockerbie bombing.

Two teenagers have been jailed for a minimum of 46 years after being found guilty of killing two men in two days. Following a trial in Glasgow, 19 year old Andrew Moran was convicted of two counts of murder and Paul Erskine, also 19, was found guilty on one charge of murder and one of culpable homic

Belfast solicitor Kevin Winters Applications for official secret court hearings have more than doubled over the past year Ministry of Justice figures show.

Margaret Waldron, principal solicitor at The Law Practice CFINE, the lead partner of the Food Banks Partnership Aberdeen, providing food parcels to those in poverty in the city, has benefited from the donation of more than 500 items since the beginning of the year from The Law Practice Solicitors an

Gary Assim Shoosmiths’ head of IP and creative industries, Gary Assim, has become chairman of the World Services Group (WSG), a global membership network of more than 130 top professional business services.

DWF has trained 50 colleagues in the Edinburgh and Glasgow offices to administer CPR to support "Save a Life for Scotland" and to help raise awareness of the importance of bystander CPR.

Prosecutors are being asked to justify a multi-million pound investigation into newspapers after the last two journalists brought to trial in Operation Elveden were cleared. Chris Pharo, 46, news editor at The Sun as well as Jamie Pyatt, 52, a reporter, were acquitted at the Old Bailey of paying a p

A man who was left paralysed following a road traffic accident in which he struck by a car outside a hotel is to be awarded damages after the driver admitted liability. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the driver of the vehicle, who was sentenced to nine months imprisonment and banned from

A case involving “serious” assault charges has been abandoned of because of an administrative blunder. Muhammad Tariq, 46, was on trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court accused of assaulting a child and a woman in the city.

A rugby player given probation for attempted rape now faces a life sentence after he was convicted of raping two other women at the High Court in Edinburgh. Jamie Rudling, 27, was given three years' probation in March 2010 after he tried to have sex with two sleeping women without their consent.

The High Court in Tours, France has ruled that a 64-year-old intersex person's birth certificate should be amended to record their gender as "neutral". In an historic ruling on 20 August, the magistrate said that the "gender assigned at birth appears to be nothing but a fiction, forced on this perso

John Swinney Deputy First Minister John Swinney has accepted a recommendation that will see Scotland with a comprehensive information service about any piece of land or property in Scotland.