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The owner of an abandoned heard of pigs and flock of hens has failed in an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to allow a Scottish local authority to take the animals into care and sell them. Judges in the Inner House of the Court of Sessionrefused an appeal by Kevin Martin, who claimed that the s

The Law Society has announced that it would appeal a High Court decision over government changes to the way duty solicitors are provided to those accused of a crime. The High Court rejected legal challenges brought by the Law Society and the Criminal Law Solicitors' Association and London Criminal C

Brandon Malone (pictured) will be speaking on energy dispute resolution at the Global Law Summit in London next Tuesday in his capacity as one of the co-directors of the International Centre for Energy Arbitration along with co-director, Professor Peter Cameron, who is the director of the Centre for

Homebuyers in Scotland are being asked to take part in a new research project to help find out more about what they think are the key issues involved in buying or selling a property. The research, commissioned by the Law Society of Scotland, is to help understand issues faced by people buying or sel

Joanna Cherry QC (pictured right) has been selected by the SNP as their candidate for Edinburgh South West in the general election. The seat been represented by a member of the Faculty of Advocates since 1974, with Malcolm Rifkind QC, Linda Clark QC and, currently, Alastair Darling, who is standing

An English Premier League football club has been held “vicariously liable” after one of its youth team players suffered a cardiac arrest in his first match and was left brain damaged. Radwan Hamed, who was 17 when he collapsed during a youth team game in Belgium in August 2006, raised an action

Registers of Scotland (RoS) have reported a steady decline in rejection rates following the introduction of land registration changes in December. The fall in the number of rejected applications peaked last week with the rejection rate dropping to 6 per cent, highlighting the efforts made to underst

The Scottish Information Commissioner has saidPolice Scotland was not forced to publish “inaccurate” data relating to its stop and searches of under 12s. The news goes directly against the claims chief constable Sir Stephen House (pictured) made to the police watchdog, the Scottish Police Author

The UK government has admitted that monitoring of privileged conversations between lawyers and their clients over the past five years by MI5, MI6 and other intelligence agencies is unlawful. The news follows the recent court ruling that the mass interception and sharing of personal intelligence data

A group of young lawyers from the Netherlands enjoyed a visit to the Faculty of Advocates and Parliament House, but found they were in for a shock. Library staff had made the guests feel at home by putting on a display of Dutch law books from the Faculty’s collection, and Parliament Hall filled th

The jury’s decision at a mock trial will be in the hands of visitors attending the Health & Safety Scotland event held at the SECC in Glasgow on 22nd and 23rd April. As part of the event’s free educational programme, organised by the British Safety Council, A Mock Trial: A Construction Indus

James Wolffe, QC, seated, with Ewan Aitken of Edinburgh Cyrenians

A new document has outlined how legal firms, the wider Scottish business community and consumers could benefit from the creation of a one-stop digital land and property information database in Scotland. The paper by Unifi Scotland will be the subject of a major conference on 10th March, where senior

John Macmillan