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The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal against a decision that a university was entitled to charge the higher rate of tuition fees to a South African-born optometry student who held UK citizenship by birthright and fled the country due to threats against his family, holding th
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MJC LAW has welcomed two new team members and celebrated two internal promotions. Kellie Marshall joined the firm on 23 March 2026 as a newly qualified solicitor, bringing with her a strong foundation in working with clients in sensitive and often complex situations.
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Holmes Mackillop Solicitors has promoted Emma Donaldson, former senior associate in its private client team, to a director of the firm. Following qualification as a solicitor in 2007, Ms Donaldson has focused on working for individuals and families in private client matters. She has extensive experi
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Continued success at Thompsons Solicitors Scotland has been underlined by a series of new promotions at the firm.
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TLT has promoted three lawyers to partner in Glasgow. The newly promoted partners are Fiona Armour and Barbara Mayne, both in investment and asset management; and Katherine Doran, projects infrastructure and construction.
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Macleod & MacCallum has announced the promotion of senior associate Aidan Grant to director. Mr Grant joined the company as a trainee solicitor in 2016 and has become a key member of their residential conveyancing team.
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Blackadders LLP has announced a record number of promotions across both its business services and private client teams in Scotland. The internal promotions include lawyers based in the firm’s Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. Ian Angus has been promoted to partner in the rural l
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The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) has secured two separate four-figure sums in connection with a consumer dispute. Prior to ALP’s engagement in the matter, the client had purchased an unfit vehicle and attempted to resolve the matter independently. ALP engaged in correspondence with the opp
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The US intends to launch its Artemis 2 rocket this week, marking the first time humans will venture beyond low-Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. As well as highlighting the technological and scientific challenges of manned space flight, the programme also emphasises the legal complexities of send
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The number of law students suspected of using AI to cheat has risen at several Scottish universities, an investigation by Scottish Legal News has found – with one expert warning that the figures are likely underreported. SLN made freedom of information requests of all Scottish universities tha
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The University of Aberdeen Mooting Society will host the finals of the Main Faculty Moot on 19 March. This year’s competition will be judged by Michael D Anderson KC, a graduate of the university and an experienced criminal advocate who was called to the bar in 2006 and took silk in 2022.
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Scottish academics have contributed to a new collection celebrating women in legal history, launched at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Published by Bloomsbury, Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline champions the work of women in legal history and their contributions
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Solicitors who provide legal aid will receive a 13 per cent increase in fees from September this year. The fees hike is part of a wider package of support including also funding for up to 40 legal aid traineeship places and digital support to help firms purchase devices to assist trainees in their w
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The Law Society of Scotland is seeking urgent clarification from the Scottish government on why legal aid has again been ignored in the final budget before this year’s Holyrood election. Finance Secretary Shona Robinson announced the 2026-27 budget in the Scottish Parliament on 13 January 2026
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The Scottish government is pausing it’s proposed changes to legal aid for adults with legal incapacity (AWI) cases, following an intervention by Govan Law Centre. Last month, GLC wrote to the Holyrood's Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee to recommend rejection of a draft Scottish statut
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The Law Society of Scotland has warned that proposed changes to legal aid fees for cases related to adults with incapacity (AWI) would further exacerbate the shortage of solicitors for such work. The warning is contained in a submission by the Law Society on potential changes to legal aid regulation
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Laura Simpson and Christine McKellar of Govan Law Centre raise the alarm over proposed changes to legal aid for adults with incapacity in Scotland. It is no secret that Scotland’s legal aid system is in urgent need of reform. With the increase in legal aid deserts caused by an ever-diminishing
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A viral video has captured a woman's impressive escape from police custody through the cracked window of a police car. Footage shared by FOX 2 Detroit shows Kendra Aney first poking her head from the backseat window before carefully manoeuvring her whole body through it – remarkably landing on
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An iconic clip of a man's arrest in Australia after eating "a succulent Chinese meal" is to be preserved in Australia's National Film and Sound Archive. The incredible and memorable monologue unleashed by Jack Karlson during his arrest in Brisbane in 1991 was captured by a TV news crew from the Seve
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Hundreds of thousands of KitKat chocolate bars have been stolen by criminals with "exceptional taste". Nestlé said 413,793 bars, weighing 12 tonnes in total, had been stolen while being transported from a factory in Italy to Poland.
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A man alleged to have a bong built into his car to allow him to smoke cannabis while driving has been arrested for the 98th time. The man, who has not been named, was one of two suspects apprehended by police in the US state of Washington in connection with organised retail theft.
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A judge has shown little patience with a woman who joined an online court hearing while driving a car and then unsuccessfully tried to convince the judge she wasn't. Kimberly Carroll joined the Detroit court hearing via Zoom late and with her camera switched off, according to FOX 2.
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