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Our Legal Heritage: Chrystal Macmillan
Chrystal Macmillan Annabel Twose of First 100 Years writes about Jessie Chrystal Macmillan ...
Published 19 July 2018
And finally... shell shock
A tourist was charged and fined after she brought an unexploded World War Two shell to Vienna airpor ...
Published 19 July 2018
Crown successfully appeals against JP’s decision to acquit ‘speeding driver’ over lack of corroboration
A motorist who was acquitted of a speeding charge after a justice of the peace upheld a defence subm ...
Published 18 July 2018
Google fined record €4.3 bn for breaching EU antitrust rules
The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by impo ...
Published 18 July 2018
Sheridan appeals decision to refuse him interest on defamation payout
Tommy Sheridan is appealing a decision to refuse him £200,000 in interest on a payout for defa ...
Published 18 July 2018
Breaches of home detention curfews up
Liam Kerr The number of criminals breaching home detention curfews rose last year, with more th ...
Published 18 July 2018
European legal bodies group warns against criminalisation of assistance to irregular migrants
Legal changes aimed at criminalising assistance to irregular migrants – meant to deter human t ...
Published 18 July 2018
East central Scotland continues to defy UK housing market trends
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) latest survey claimed properties are taking longer ...
Published 18 July 2018
Models of devolution subject of Lady Hale Edinburgh speech
Lady Hale The text of Lady Hale's speech delivered in Edinburgh in June has been published. Th ...
Published 18 July 2018
Cliff Richard wins major privacy lawsuit against the BBC
Sir Cliff Richard has won a major privacy lawsuit against the BBC over its coverage o ...
Published 18 July 2018
Women launch human rights challenge over ineligibility to inherit Lords seats
Paul Hardy Five women who are the daughters of hereditary peers are taking the UK to the E ...
Published 18 July 2018
Scottish courts library service wins top award
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Library Service has won the 2018 LexisLibrary Award for Excel ...
Published 18 July 2018
Edinburgh Tram Inquiry: Court rejects construction company’s appeal against release of ‘commercially sensitive’ reports
A construction company involved in the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry which challenged a decision by the inq ...
Published 17 July 2018
UK government failing to tackle age discrimination
A report published today has found that the UK government and the Equality and Human Rights Commissi ...
Published 17 July 2018
Katherine Gibson: What we can learn from infamous data breaches
Katherine Gibson Katherine Gibson, who recently spoke at a GDPR Summit in London, explains ...
Published 17 July 2018
