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A motorist who told police he was speeding because he was trying to avoid catching coronavirus has been referred to court. Surrey Police said they pulled over the man driving on the M25 at 130 miles per hour on Tuesday.

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Robert Weir QC was today installed as a Senator of the College of Justice at a ceremony held in Parliament House. Social distancing was observed at the installation, held before a bench of two judges, the Lord President and the Lord Justice Clerk.

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Alison Grandison has joined Edinburgh-based solicitors Urquharts as a partner. Ms Grandison has spent the last five years as a senior associate with Simpson & Marwick Property. She qualified as a solicitor in 2006 while at Archibald Campbell & Harley W.S., which later merged with Shoosmiths,

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In the second of his jurisprudential primers, Benjamin Bestgen invokes Greek wisdom in thinking about the merits of democracy. See part one here. Likening statecraft to captaining a ship goes back to the Greek poet Alcaeus of Mytilene but was made famous in Plato’s Republic.

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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

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A woman who accused her astronaut wife of committing the first-ever "space crime" has been charged with making false statements. The allegations made against US astronaut Lieutenant-Colonel Anne McClain just over a year ago raised complex legal questions around criminal jurisdiction in space.

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A tenant who was refused an extension of the time limit for requesting permission to appeal an eviction decision by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has been refused permission to appeal to the Court of Session by the same court. Azhir Sharif was evicted from a property in Glasgow in 2

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