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The UK could again face legal action at the European Court of Human Rights following a high-profile ruling on the definition of "woman" in equality legislation, a group of UN experts has warned. The Supreme Court last month ruled unanimously that the word "woman" in the Equality Act 2010 refers to b
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Family Law Matters have welcomed Zaynab Al Nasser, who has been appointed as a legal director with the specialist family law firm. Ms Al Nasser brings a wealth of family law experience. She has practised exclusively in the field of family law for over 12 years, advising individuals on a range of mat
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Holmes Mackillop has made three appointments across its commercial property, property and private client teams. Hannah McKay has joined the firm’s Johnstone branch as a solicitor in its property team; Grant Cairnduff has joined the Milngavie branch as a solicitor in its property and private cl
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TLT has appointed commercial real estate and investment expert Colin Brown as partner in its Edinburgh office. Mr Brown joins TLT from Burness Paull, where he specialised in advising institutional investors on the acquisition, disposal, leasing and development of commercial properties including shop
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Livingstone Brown has announced the appointment of Siobhan Kelly, one of Scotland’s most highly regarded family lawyers, to its family & private client team. Ms Kelly joins as a consultant, following the recent recruitment of associate Chloe Cairns.
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Digby Brown Solicitors has announced the appointment of two new partners following a record year of growth. Rona Hayworth takes her position with the foreign & travel team in Edinburgh building on a 14-year career with the firm that began as a paralegal.
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Weightmans has announced a raft of new partner appointments. As part of plans to grow the firm’s private client practice in Scotland, Donna Brennan, formerly of Blackadders, joins the team in Glasgow, specialising in complex private wealth matters, and advising on all aspects of succession pla
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Hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales have had their personal data stolen in a cyber-attack. The Ministry of Justice today announced that hackers had "accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who applied for legal aid through our digital s
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Calls for the establishment of a civil legal assistance office and a university law clinic in the Forth Valley will not be enough to solve the region's "legal aid desert", Scottish Legal News has been told. Earlier this week, a new report from Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) raised co
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A charity has called for the urgent establishment of a civil legal assistance office and a university law clinic in the Forth Valley after concluding that people in Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire are living in a "legal aid desert". A new report from Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau (
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Lawyers have accused the Scottish government of intentionally delaying action on legal aid until after next year's Holyrood election. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) said the profession was being treated with contempt as it confirmed it will escalate its boycott of the government's su
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Family members involved in deaths in custody fatal accident inquiries (FAI) are to have immediate, free access to legal aid support and advice. Justice Secretary Angela Constance confirmed that she is using existing ministerial powers to remove means-testing for legal aid in such cases, so that from
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An Edinburgh Law School team has won multiple prizes at the 2025 Day of Crisis Competition in the Netherlands.
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How willing would you be to hand over your mobile phone to the police if they asked to examine its contents? Why are many suspicious of facial recognition technology, yet happy to use this to unlock their digital devices? These are themes that University of Dundee and Open University experts are hel
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Dr Titilayo Adebola, senior lecturer and director of Aberdeen University's Centre for Commercial Law, delivered the keynote address at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)’s Worldwide Symposium on Geographical Indications 2025. The symposium was jointly organised by WIPO a
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A new University of Stirling academic journal dedicated to sharing research on human rights aims to influence policy and decision makers in the UK and worldwide. The University of Stirling Human Rights Journal (USHRJ) is the first of its kind in Scotland.
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The Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security is to host a lecture by Sally Langrish later this month. Ms Langrish was appointed foreign, commonwealth & development office legal adviser (director general, legal) in May 2022.
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An Amazonian tribe is suing The New York Times over an article which it says depicted their people as becoming addicted to pornography after gaining access to the internet. A journalist and photographer from the US newspaper visited the Marúbo people in western Brazil nine months after t
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A man who jumped off a bridge and was miraculously unhurt told police that someone had "dared him to jump". Local firefighters found the man sitting on rocks near one of the pillars supporting the bridge in Vancouver, Vancouver is Awesome reports.
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A tribunal has dismissed a claim for damages following a dog bite because "every dog is entitled to one bite". The ruling from a civil tribunal in British Columbia, Canada has brought international attention to the so-called "one bite rule".
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A delinquent duck has been reprimanded by police after being caught on a speed camera for the second time in seven years. The small Swiss town of Koeniz previously made international headlines in 2018 after a wild duck was caught on camera exceeding a 20mph speed limit.
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A man is suing a fast food chain for $1 million for failing to hold the onions. Texas man Demery Ardell Wilson alleges that he suffered an allergic reaction after eating a meal at popular US chain Whataburger because of his unusual allergy to onions, TODAY.com reports.
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