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Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney The minister of state for justice has apologised for claiming prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney gets high-profile cases by virtue of her marriage to a Hollywood actor.

Libby Clegg Libby Clegg, a paralympian supported by the Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre (ESPC), has drawn up recommendations for assisting visually-impaired people who are searching for a home.

The Faculty of Advocates has staged a major conference to highlight and examine the most significant structural reforms of the Scottish court system in more than 150 years. The event, Court Reform: The New Law, proved so popular that it had to be moved from its original venue of the Faculty’s Mack

Denying EU citizens entitlement to German benefits by way of basic provision does not necessarily contravene the principle of equal treatment the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. The German Federal Social Court (Bundessozialgericht) sought to ascertain whether such an exclusion is lawful c

Gordon Keyden In the wake of sundry mergers, the demise of Tods Murray and, most recently, McClure Naismith, the announcement that two firms in rude health, Simpson & Marwick and Clyde & Co, will be merging is good news for the Scottish legal market as Clyde & Co gains the smaller firm's

A Scots lawyer who was jailed for concealing £1.8 million of laundered money for a fraudster has been struck off the solicitors' roll after the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) found him guilty of professional misconduct. Richard Housely, 59, was imprisoned for four years in 2013 for

Photo by Bodo, CC BY 2.0. The shape of a KitKat alone is not distinctive enough for consumers to associate it with the snack, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

Craig Nicol Thorntons has been named as one of Scotland's top ten performing businesses, climbing 33 places in Scottish Business Insider's SME 300 table.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney (pictured) has called for dialogue with the UK government over theScotland Bill and a fair fiscal framework for Scotland. Mr Swinney said yesterday that he has "no hesitation" to refuse to recommend a bill that "did not properly allow us to address our own prioriti

David Cameron Prime Minister David Cameron has defended new anti-extremism laws that give academic bodies a legal duty to address signs of extremism on campus.

Professor Alan Page The Dean's Medal is to be given to a University of Dundee graduate at the School of Law's annual awards ceremony this evening.

Caroline Young The ESPC website has expanded its "unique" school catchment function to Fife, Midlothian, East Lothian, Stirling and Falkirk.

Civil servants yesterday dismissed claims that the Higher Education Governance Bill will enable government interference in the governance of Scottish universities. Stephen White, strategic policy lead at the Scottish government, told the Scottish Parliament's finance committee that there had been a

The Scottish Arbitration Centre's Arbitrator Training Day - Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010: Five Years On - will be taking place next week on Thursday 24 September 2015.

Lord Jones Two “inconsistent” decrees of the same court amount to “exceptional circumstances” which would allow the court to reduce a decree by default if reduction is “necessary to produce substantial justice”, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled.