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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.

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Edward Snowden An influential business lobby group has declared it shares concerns about controversial proposed changes to the governance of Scottish universities.

Michael Matheson The Ministerial Group on Offender Reintegration(MGOR) has completed a report setting out pledges to deliver improvements for the reintegration of short-term prisoners into Scottish society.

Scotch Whisky has received legal protection in 17 African countries after an intellectual property organisation on the continent gave it geographical indication (GI) status. Member countries of the Organisation Africaine de la Propriete Intellectuelle (OAPI) will only recognise Scotch whisky as whis