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More than half a million pounds has been recovered from two men who made the cash selling “legal highs” online. An investigation was launched into Stuart Percival, 33, by the Civil Recovery Unit – a specialist team of expert solicitors and financial investigators working under inst

The Scottish property market enjoyed a sharp rise in sales following Boris Johnson’s general election win, new research has revealed. Aberdein Considine’s Property Monitor report shows more than 10,000 homes changed hands in December, an unseasonal jump of 15 per cent on November an

John Campbell QC has been appointed as Scotland’s only representative panel arbitrator at the newly formed Court of Arbitration for Art (CafA), in The Hague, Netherlands. The court has grown out of a series of conferences and discussions within the Authentication in Art Mediation Board and the

Some 58 per cent of women in the legal profession say they or women they work with have experienced inappropriate comments from male colleagues relating to their gender, new research has found. Almost half, 46 per cent, reported that either they or one of their colleagues had not complained about di

Dundee University has prevailed at the annual Lord Jones Moot competition. This year's competition saw 12 teams compete from the Universities of Dundee, Abertay, Aberdeen, St Andrews, Napier, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is to host the European Young Bar Association's Spring Conference in Glasgow between 23 and 26 April 2020. The topics for this year's conference are technology and the environment. They will be considered both as areas of the law and as issue effec

More than 1,110 former officials at the Justice Department have called on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign. The statement, signed mostly by former career prosecutors, but also by some political appointees, said: "Mr Barr's actions in doing the President's personal bidding unfortunately speak lou

The Supreme Court of India has made it mandatory for political parties to publish the names of candidates with criminal records and the reasons for which they are being fielded. The court said there was an "alarming rise" in "criminal candidates"  that had to be urgently addressed.

A judge in Manhattan has ruled that a summons can be served by email to British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, a former associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers for Annie Farmer, who alleges that she was trafficked and sexually abused by Maxwell and Epstein, said they have tried to

A property developer has been ordered to remove up to 20 floors from the top of a nearly-completed block of flats. The 52-storey tower was targeted by local community campaigners who said developers abused planning rules to build it.

A property developer who claimed that a Scottish local authority’s decision to demolish a leisure centre was “unlawful” has had his legal challenge dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session refused a petition for judicial review by Mark Guild, who was seeking reduction of the deci

Cannabis is to be legally prescribed in Scotland at a clinic in Aberdeen. The unit aims to provide medicinal cannabis for “all conditions acknowledged to benefit from it”.

An MP who has threatened to “take back control” from an interfering judiciary has been appointed Attorney General for England and Wales. Suella Braverman, 39, practised as a barrister before becoming the MP for Fareham in 2015. She studied law at Cambridge University, the Sorbonne and Ne

The lack of progress by public authorities in tackling higher levels of unemployment and in-work poverty among ethnic minority communities will be the subject of a new inquiry by a Holyrood committee. The Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee (EHRi) has issued a call

Immediate and fundamental reform of the asylum system is required to prevent lock-change evictions, destitution and street homelessness of some of the most vulnerable people in Scotland, according to a new report.