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Compass Chambers' Malcolm McGregor will be taking part in the Pyrenees Stage Run and will be raising funds for the Beatson Cancer Charity – Compass Chambers’ nominated charity for 2021. The Pyrenees Stage Run is a seven-stage race beginning in Ribes de Freser, crossing a section of the P

A Pakistani man and his parents received asylum in the EU last week after having gone through an “unspeakable ordeal”. In 2014, a court sentenced Zehmat Akhtar's parents, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel to death by hanging over allegations of blasphemy.

A former accounts manager at a non-profit affiliated with a medical school has pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $13 million. Florida man Ralph Puglisi, 59, faces a jail term of up to 20 years, The Tampa Bay Times reports. He worked for the University of South Florida's medical service association

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has permitted a petition by a US-based non-profit organisation for judicial review of the approach taken by the Scottish Ministers in applying for Unexplained Wealth Orders to proceed. The Avaaz Foundation also sought a determina

The Crown Office is being sued for £120 million by a global financial consultancy firm over reputational damage allegedly sustained during the botched fraud probe into Rangers. New York-based multinational Duff & Phelps has claimed it suffered loss of earnings as two of its employees were

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, and the Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, will deliver keynote speeches at a half-day virtual conference which will consider how tribunals in Scotland have adapted to the pandemic and how that might inform their future development. This conference

Adelyn Wilson has been promoted to the post of professor at Aberdeen University. Her research interests include early-modern Scottish legal history, public law, and the law of abortion in the UK. She is the co-director of the Centre for Scots Law, the chair of the Aberdeen Humanities Fund, a co-dire

New guidance for schools on supporting transgender children and young people has been published. The guidance contains real-life examples, best practice and advice on a range of issues that are known to affect transgender pupils including bullying, safety and privacy.

Labour and Co-op MSP Paul Sweeney has tabled a motion in support of Govanhill Law Centre, which last week had a funding application rejected and now faces closure. Mr Sweeney's motion calls on Holyrood to recognise "the crucial services provided by Govanhill Law Centre" as well as "the wid

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has received a total of 2,754 separate allegations of misconduct, including fraud, money laundering and compliance complaints, according to official figures. The data, analysed by the Parliament Street think tank and contained in the FCA’s newly publi

An article by an Edinburgh Law School LLM student has been selected for publication by the Trinity College Law Review. Bracken Crossley, who is studying comparative and European private law, submitted an article drafted in French to the journal. It was selected for publication and considered the bes

A lawyer has agreed to pay seven buffaloes in compensation after insulting an indigenous beauty pageant. Malaysian lawyer Marcel Jude Joseph reached a deal with local native leaders after he insulted the Unduk Ngadau beauty pageant by comparing it to a cattle show.

A Nigerian woman who claimed to be at risk of trafficking if she was returned to her home country has had her appeal against the refusal of her judicial review petition refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. The appellant, OA, argued that the Upper Tribunal had made an error o

The Court of Session has granted an interlocutor requiring a firm of solicitors to deliver relevant files and documents to the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) so that a complaint made by a client of the firm can be investigated. The SLCC raised the action following an ongoing concern ove

Rehabilitation should be the primary purpose of sentencing young people in Scotland, according to a new report which explored the views of 14-25 year olds across Scotland. Participants in the research also felt that sentences should attempt to repair the harm done to victims.