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Carles Puigdemont, the exiled politician who led Catalonia's failed independence bid in 2017, has been arrested in Italy on the foot of a European arrest warrant. Mr Puigdemont is wanted by Spanish prosecutors for sedition after organising an independence referendum in defiance of the Spanish courts

The challenges to the licensed trade over the past 18 months and the way in which the legal profession has responded will be a key theme at CLT Scotland’s Licensing Conference taking place online on Thursday 7 October Chaired by Scott Blair of Terra Firma Chambers, the conference will consider

The Property Standardisation Group (PSG) is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Scottish Legal Awards.

Solicitors Patricia Taylor and Kerri Montgomery are taking part in The Kiltwalk this Sunday to raise funds for the Lawscot Foundation. The Lawscot Foundation is the Law Society of Scotland's social mobility charity. It promotes fair access to the legal profession and supports students from less adva

Hundreds of number plates featuring the new 71 series have been banned over fears of inappropriate applications such as TA71 BAN and AN71 VAX. The DVLA does not permit some registrations on the basis they may cause “offence, embarrassment and are in poor taste”.

An army officer who owned a seaside house in Fife has lost an appeal in the Inner House of the Court of Session against the decision that he did not have a servitude over a strip of land owned by his neighbours. Major Douglas Soulsby, the pursuer and reclaimer, challenged the Lord Ordinary’s d

The 'not proven' verdict was returned the least by juries in sexual offence trials between 2016 and 2020, a freedom of information request has shown. In such cases, Scotland's third verdict was used:

Possession of Class A drugs may incur a police warning rather than prosecution under a new “diversion from prosecution” policy for drugs announced by the Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC. In a statement, Ms Bain said: "I have decided that an extension of the recorded police warning guideli

The research into fatal accident inquiries, (SLN, 15 September) for me, reads rather strangely. The researchers looked at approximately 200 cases of deaths in prison, but because in only 10 per cent of these was any recommendation made, they suggest that the system is flawed. It is not clear whether

An Edinburgh-based care company that provides housing and community support to those with additional needs has been fined £20,000 for its failure to safeguard a worker who became the victim of abduction, assault and rape.

A proposal for a member's bill to enable competent adults who are terminally ill to be able to end their life has been lodged. Liam McArthur MSP launched a consultation on the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill at Holyrood yesterday.

Glasgow law firm Campbell Riddell Breeze Paterson LLP will become part of Holmes Mackillop Limited on 1 October. The merged business will trade initially as “Holmes Mackillop Solicitors incorporating Campbell Riddell Breeze Paterson” and then as “Holmes Mackillop Solicitors”.

A harrowing incident in which a baby died in Europe's largest women's prison, with the 18-year-old mother giving birth in her cell alone despite repeated calls for help, "should never have happened", a watchdog has said. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) for England and Wales yesterday publi

Ian Beattie, the chief operating officer of Lindsays, has been named as the new chair of UK Athletics. He will take on the role in October, as his time in the same role at scottishathletics comes to a close after its maximum nine-year period.

Perthshire law firm Macnabs has recently recruited a new trainee to take the total current trainee intake to four. Megan Carling has joined the family team at Macnabs after graduating from Aberdeen University with an LLB and completing her diploma at Strathclyde University.