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The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association will be holding its annual general meeting at 6pm on Thursday 27 May 2021. The meeting will be held via Zoom. All SYLA members are welcome to attend, however, to allow for distribution of Zoom details, all attendees are required to sign up in advance.

A border guard service dog has received a national honour in Turkmenistan on its inaugural new state holiday. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has dedicated April 19th to the alabay, a symbol of national pride, Sky News reports.

A woman who was convicted of fraudulently obtaining £55,000 in child tax credits and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment has had her appeal against the imposition of a custodial sentence refused by the Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary. It was argued by RA, who pled g

MacRoberts is to take up new premises in Edinburgh in the coming months. The firm will move to a new office at 10 George Street to support its focus on hybrid working.

Supplementary experimental prison population statistics covering the period 2009-10 to 2019-20 have been published by Scotland’s chief statistician. The data indicate that the overall average daily prison population fluctuated over the 10 years to 2019-20. Between 2009-10 and 2011-12, there wa

Unreliable witness testimony has been the biggest cause of miscarriages of justice over the past half-century, a new study suggests. The research also suggests that regulations governing the powers of police have been effective in reducing wrongful convictions caused by unreliable confessions.

Highland Council has granted approval for a planning application that will see the transformation of Inverness Castle, former site of the city's courthouse, into a tourism gateway for the region. The application covered the works necessary to restore the Category A Listed building and convert i

A man who was found with suitcases full of more than £800,000 in cash at Glasgow Airport has been jailed and the money has been seized.

Thorntons’ dispute resolution specialists Gillian Buchanan and Kirsty Waughman, alongside property partner Andrew Kirkhope, are hosting a free webinar from 9.30am on Wednesday 5 May 2021 to update private landlords and letting agents on current issues. The one hour event, which includes an onl

Dear Editor, Eilidh Smith's article on Taylor Swift's intellectual property woes misses out a key point: Taylor Swift tried to buy back the intellectual property rights and would likely have had no problem purchasing these rights, except that the owner, Scooter Braun, refused to allow her to buy the

A hand grenade discovered in a German forest, leading to a full-scale bomb disposal operation, has turned out to be a rubber sex toy. Police were alerted to the possible explosive after it was spotted by a woman jogging through the forest near the Bavarian city of Passau, DW reports.

Iain Penman explains the advantages and disadvantages of a Minimal Asset Process (MAP) bankruptcy in Scotland. Bankruptcy, or sequestration as its often called in Scotland, is governed by the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 and is available to people, partnerships, trusts and some other unincorp

The brother of a deceased man who left the majority of his estate to his carer has failed to appeal a sheriff’s decision not to reduce the deceased’s last will in the Civil Division of the Sheriff Appeal Court. John Thompson, the pursuer and appellant, originally raised the action s

The 'not proven' verdict is neither logical nor sensible, undermines the presumption of innocence and should be abolished, a recently retired judge has said. Writing in Scottish Legal News today, Lord Uist, who retired from the bench in February, said that the third verdict was "wholly indefensible

The Faculty of Advocates is among a number of bar organisations that have condemned sanctions announced by China against barristers who gave legal advice in connection with human rights abuses in Xinjiang. In a letter signed by the Faculty, the Bar Council of England and Wales, The Bar of