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The lord chief justice has questioned the use of a 13th century law used to pursue journalists through the courts as he quashed the conviction of a journalist who worked for now defunct newspaper the News of the World. The reporter, who cannot be named, was the first journalist to be convicted by a

School pupils have won through to the final of the Law Society of Scotland’s national debating tournament after pitting their wits against schools across the country. Just four of the original 128 teams that entered the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament will take part in the final of the c

One team took the title, but everyone was declared a winner at the final of the 2015 Bar National Mock Trial Competition. Scotland hosted the final for the third time in the competition’s 24 years, and some 340 school students from throughout the UK gathered in Parliament House, Edinburgh, to batt

Specific offences for revenge porn and domestic abuse are to be considered as part of a Scottish government consultation.

Digby Brown Solicitors were successful across four categories at last night’s Scott + Co Legal Awards 2015, winning the Community Contribution award, the Employer of the Year award, Litigation Team of the Year and, finally, Firm of the Year. The Firm of the Year award is a recognition of how all o

An expert body has urged politicians to strengthen human rights after the general election. The Scottish Human Rights Council (SHRC) said in a reporton future human rights legislation that debate surrounding such rights was “regressive”.

The UK Supreme Court ruled yesterday the letters written by the Prince of Wales to government ministers can be published.

At the recent annual general meeting of the Sheriffs' Association, the representative body for sheriffs, the following were elected as officer bearers. Sheriff Colin Pettigrew (Paisley Sheriff Court) was elected President.

The Scottish parliament's justice committee has issued a call for evidence as it prepares to consider the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Bill. The bill’s policy objective is to reform and modernise the law governing the holding of fatal accident inquiries (FAIs) in Scotland, and

Deputy first minister John Swinney MSP was the special guest at a seminar on taxation in Scotland, and his contribution on topics ranging from the launch of Revenue Scotland to the importance of a progressive tax structure was welcomed by the audience in the Laigh Hall, Parliament House, Edinburgh.

A bright yellow clad team of six volunteers from Lindsays’ Edinburgh office took two hours out of the office last Friday to raise almost £700 handing out daffodil pins in the city’s West End.

Back row from left to right – Rachael Etheridge, Marketing Executive; Frances Muir, Client Cashroom Supervisor; Lindsay McCulloch, Associate; Adelle Seaton, Senior Solicitor; Scott Hunter, Associate; Alan Dean, Senior Tax Manager; Lyndsay McGregor, Senior Solicitor; Don Macleod, Senior Associate;

A man found guilty of repeatedly stabbing another man after an argument in a pub turned into a fight in the street has partly succeeded in an appeal against his conviction and sentence. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that a “miscarriage of justice” had occurred as the jury were denied the oppor

The findings of the Penrose Inquiry, which looked at the contamination of NHS blood supplies between 1970 and 1991, were published yesterday in Edinburgh.The inquiry recommended that anyone who received a blood transfusion before 1991 should be tested for Hepatitis C but concluded there were few thi