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Denmark has become the first country in the world to announce an official "vaccine passport" scheme allowing those vaccinated against Covid-19 to travel abroad. From the end of February, those holding the so-called "corona passport" will be able to travel abroad, relieving pressure on companies whos

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A long-standing ban on workers eating at their desks is set to be relaxed in France to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. French labour law currently forbids "letting workers take their meal inside the work premises", The Local reports.

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The Law Society of Scotland has set out a comprehensive programme for reform in the run up to this year’s Scottish elections, which includes measures to enhance access to justice, boost economic recovery, improve diversity and drive legislative change. In its wide-ranging programme published t

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Ministers have been warned by a judge that she will order them to reconsider a no-trawl scheme intended to protect Scotland’s marine environment after they said it would serve no purpose, The Herald reports. Lady Poole had last month ruled in favour of the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Fede

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The Times reported last week on a bitter boundary dispute between two pensioners, each in their eighties, over a strip of land less than a metre wide. Apparently, the legal battle has cost them £500,000, contributed to the death of a spouse and caused stress-related illness. The parties h

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In a video that was filmed to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Gillian Mawdsley, policy executive at the Law Society of Scotland, reflects on the role that civil servants, lawyers and legislation had to play in facilitating the policies that enabled Nazi atrocities. 

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Benjamin Bestgen this week explains that the extinction of rights upon death is more complicated a matter than it first seems. See his last jurisprudential primer here. Fans of old-school computer games might still remember Grim Fandango, where the player guides afterlife travel agent Manny Cal

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Mafia bosses have ordered ambulance drivers in Naples to stop using their sirens and lights – because they disrupt drug deals. An ambulance in the city was accosted by armed men on motorbikes on Saturday night, The Times reports.

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