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Gilson Gray has hosted its annual Grace Charity Gala, raising £121,000, proceeds of which will go to Edinburgh and Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charities.

Six businesses lined the banks of the River Forth to compete in the annual Dragon Boat Race in aid of St Columba’s Hospice Care earlier this year.

A coalition of landlord and lettings bodies is seeking legal advice on the Scottish government’s rent freeze and eviction ban legislation. The coalition is formed between the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL), Propertymark, the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) and Scotti

The right to education is protected by Article 2, Protocol 1 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Article 14 ECHR prevents the government discriminating against people exercising this right. However, the Scottish government’s Students' Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 2007 have been fo

New research has shown “worryingly” high levels of mental illness in sub-postmasters affected by the Post Office Horizon scandal. Almost 70 per cent of sub-postmasters who took part in the study showed signs of post-traumatic stress and 60 per cent showed signs of depression. These level

The Inner House of the Court of Session has found that the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is not entitled to apply for the production and delivery of privileged legal documents from a solicitor under section 17 of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007. The matter arose followi

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Damages of almost $1 billion have been awarded to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre against Alex Jones, who claimed the tragedy was a hoax. Six staff and 20 children were murdered at a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 by Adam Lanza, 20, who killed himself a

Justices in the Supreme Court has been urged to throw out the case on whether Scotland can hold an independence referendum without Westminster's consent. Lawyers for the UK government said that Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC had given an answer on the competency of the bill, but that the Scottish gov

A new book that aims to assist lawyers from the member states of the Council of Europe deal with extradition or deportation cases when there is a risk of the death penalty being imposed in third countries or of extrajudicial execution has been published. Compendium of case law of the European Court

A Japanese woman has become the victim of a romance scam that is out of this world. The 65-year-old struck up an interaction with a man on Instagram who told her he needed thousands of dollars – to return to Earth.

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) has been raising funds as part of the ‘Step Up for SAMH’ campaign run by the Scottish Association of Mental Health charity. Team members in the St Vincent Street office in Glasgow participated in 14 days of physical activity that was logged on t

An Edinburgh lawyer has set out on the adventure of a lifetime today to raise money for Ukraine. Andrea Fraser, a solicitor at JUSTICE, will deliver an ambulance car to Ukraine before turning around and cycling over 1,000 miles back home to Scotland.

A court in Germany has ruled that a British undercover policeman who spied on environmental campaigners did so unlawfully during his time in Germany. The ruling brings to an end the legal case that was begun by one of the campaigners who was spied on by Mark Kennedy.

Concerns have been raised over the fact no information has been made available about a sheriff who was arrested under "mysterious" circumstances earlier this year. Alistair Duff, former head of the Judicial Institute for Scotland, was appointed sheriff at Dundee in 2004.