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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.

People across Scotland are being invited to learn more about land rights and responsibilities in a new, free series of webinars. Kicking off on 19 October, the informal 45-minute lunchtime sessions aim to stimulate practical change in how land is owned, used and managed. The Scottish Land Commission

A 32-year-old Fife farmer has been fined £2,000 after deliberately damaging a badger sett. Peter Brown was sentenced at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court after being found guilty of two breaches of the Protection of Badgers Act in Leslie, Glenrothes.

Louise Duffy has joined BTO LLP as a legal director heading up the recoveries department. She said: “BTO is well respected in the Scottish legal market for being a full service firm with many excellent lawyers.

A Lord Ordinary has determined that a farmer who rented grazing land in the north of Scotland was in breach of a 2015 oral agreement on the payment of Scottish Government farming subsidies and therefore liable to make payments to the landowners. Golden Lane Securities Ltd and Christopher Moran &

A Court of Session judgment has reaffirmed the principle of legal privilege between solicitors and their clients. A hearing at the Inner House of the Court of Session determined that the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) is not entitled to recover legally privileged information in a solici

Leah Trueblood, career development fellow in public law at Worcester College, University of Oxford, carefully examines the bill on everyone's mind.  What is the purpose of the referendum proposed in the Scottish Independence Referendum Bill? Is it, as s 1 (1) of the Bill itself says &lsquo

New Zealand's government has proposed taxing farmers on the greenhouse gases produced by burping and peeing animals. The government said that the levy was a world first and that farmers could pass the cost on by charging more for green products.

Four members of Black Chambers have been appointed as King’s Counsel. Tony Lenehan, Gareth Jones, Steven Borthwick, and Michael Anderson all took silk in the latest appointments. This brings the total of King’s Counsel within Black Chambers to 15.Mr Lenehan called to the bar in 2005, and