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A Pakistani national who married a British woman but was refused leave to remain in the United Kingdom after his visa expired has successfully challenged that decision on human rights grounds. Muhammad Irfan Khan brought a petition for judicial review,arguing that the refusal of leave to remain in t

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A campaigner for a public inquiry into historical child sex abuse has expressed concern that a unit established to deal with paedophiles will buckle under the weight of historical cases. Police Scotland unveiled the National Child Abuse Investigation Unit this week – which comprises 50 dedicated o

Female workers at a council are due backdated pay of up to six figures stemming from an equal pay dispute going back over 10 years.

The Edinburgh trams inquiry into why the project took so long and overran its budget could take as long as two years to complete.

About 250 people turned up at George Square in Glasgow yesterday to lobby for the legalisation of cannabis. So-called “420” day is observed around the world by supporters of the class B drug at 4:20pm.

In celebration of its 200th anniversary, Lindsays has produced a timeline of the firm's history on its website which highlights key dates and images which mark changes for the firm over the years.

A transgender woman has failed in a legal challenge at the High Court to a requirement that she must be recorded as the “father” of her two children on their birth certificates. A judge ruled that the UK's birth registration scheme, which requires that the woman, JK, be recorded as the f

Spring is in the air for the Scottish construction sector and most certainly for our sister publication Scottish Construction Now which is recording soaring traffic on its new website. The revamped Scottish Construction newsletter and website were launched last November and last month, in addition t

Two solicitors from Shepherd and Wedderburn have been nominated in the Scottish Renewables' Young Professionals Green Energy Awards.

A former asylum seeker who was convicted for terror offences remains in prison despite having served his sentence, and has launched a new bid for freedom. Nasserdine Menni, a 41-year old Algerian convicted of helping to fund a suicide bombing in Sweden in 2010, is in Low Moss jail in East Dunbartons

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has published a manifesto for the General Election that calls for changes to immigration rules in Britain and hits out at the Conservatives' proposed 'snoopers' charter'. Launching the document from Edinburgh today, first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said

A former director of a Scottish Championship football team who loaned more than £200,000 to the club has failed in a legal action to recover the money. The pursuer Gerard Nixon, who was a director of the defender Livingston Football Club (LFC) between 2009 and 2013, sought decree of payment of a to

Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre has launched a campaign which it hopes will give a voice to people in the private rent sector and lead to reforms.