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A pair of identical twins accused of cheating in a university exam have won a €1.5 million defamation payout after arguing their genetic similarity played a decisive role in their similar answers. Kayla and Kellie Bingham were accused of "academic dishonesty" in 2016 following an eight-hour exa

The Court of Session has confirmed its position on legal privilege in relation to third party complaints and has provided clarity on the limits of client confidentiality. In its opinion, published on Friday, the court clarified that if a regulator, which includes the Law Society of Scotland and the

Products containing the mineral talc are set to be removed from UK shelves amid fears they may contain asbestos material following a rise in litigation in the United States, write David Short and Peter Littlefair. Putting profits over product safety has been the battleground for product liability ca

Students at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) will be offered free legal support to progress business ideas as part of a new partnership with Morton Fraser. The partnership between Morton Fraser and SRUC’s Enterprise Academy – which was set up to help students develop enterprising mi

The first public parole hearing in UK history is set to go ahead today following reforms to increase transparency and improve victims’ experience of the parole system. Convicted murderer Russell Causley, who killed his wife Carole Packman in 1985, will become the first prisoner to have a publi

English prosecutors have dropped a case against a 25-year-old woman accused of illegally procuring an abortion. The woman was reported to police after she underwent an emergency caesarean section 31 weeks into her pregnancy and was found to have evidence of abortion pills in her system.

A Libyan man who is accused of making the bomb which destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 is in US custody. Abu Agila Masud was charged by US authorities two years ago. They allege that he played a key role in the terrorist attack which killed 270 people.

Just Employment Law has made a number of new appointments and promotions.

The deadline for donations to the Faculty Christmas Collection, which supports vulnerable families in Fife, is fast approaching. Now in its eighth year, the Faculty Christmas Collection raises funds to support vulnerable families in Fife facilitated through Home-Start, a charity that helps families

Stronachs has swapped Secret Santa for donations of money, food and staple household items to local charity CFine (Community Food Initiatives North East).

The Scottish legal sector has welcomed 55 new solicitors to the profession at an admissions ceremony at the Signet Library in Edinburgh.

BTO’s corporate team acted in the sale of Dunfermline-based family business Scott Group (Scott Pallets) to BSW Group, part of the Binderholz Group, a global sawmilling group with operations in Austria, Germany, Finland and the USA, and headquartered in Earlston, Scotland. BSW Timber is the lar

A challenge to the legislative competence of part of Scottish legislation aimed at reducing a perceived imbalance in the relationship between the landlords of “tied pubs” and their tenants has been refused by a Lord Ordinary in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Petitioners Greene

Via Dundee Law School: "Congratulations to diploma student, Rebecca Coakley, who won the Criminal Competition held at Dundee Sheriff Court. Thanks to Sheriff Carmichael for judging and to James Laverty, module organiser, for arranging the competition. Well done to all participants!"

People in South Korea are set to become a year younger under new legislation scrapping the century-old "Korean age" counting system. Under the Korean age system, a person turns one on the day they are born and grows a year older on the first day of the new year.