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A man convicted of sexual and other offences against four complainers has failed in an appeal alleging that the trial judge unfairly undermined the defence case when directing the jury about missing witnesses and wrongly introduced the concept of grooming. The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court h
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Gillespie Macandrew has announced three senior appointments with the arrival of Chris Devlin and Douglas Roberts, as partners in planning and corporate respectively, and Nikki Robertson as head of finance. The appointments take the firm's partnership to a record 30 partners and come as Gillesp
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Caroline Smith has joined Weightmans as a partner in the family team in Glasgow. Previously of MTM Law, a niche family law practice, Ms Smith has specialised in family law throughout a 30-year career, advising separating married and unmarried clients on relationship breakdown both on finance and chi
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Eleven lawyers at Aberdein Considine LLP working from Aberdeen to Newcastle have been recognised in its latest round of promotions this autumn, including three lawyers who started their traineeships with the firm. In Aberdeen, three experienced residential conveyancing lawyers become associates - Br
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Burness Paull has hired hotels and student accommodation specialist Roland Smyth as a partner to boost sector growth from within its real estate team. Qualified in both Scots and English law, Mr Smyth brings considerable experience of commercial real estate and has developed an outstanding reputatio
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Steph McTighe, an Edinburgh-based senior associate and disputes resolution specialist at CMS, has been appointed as Scotland’s Ambassador to the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC). A respected global institution with in-depth knowledge and links across Europe, VIAC assists businesses
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Shakespeare Martineau has strengthened its Scotland team with the appointment of two solicitors and a trainee, alongside the qualification of an existing team member, as it continues to grow its presence. Based in the firm’s Edinburgh office, Sinead Pow has qualified into the litigation team a
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University of Dundee researchers have unveiled two new aids in the fight to protect the integrity of the criminal justice system. Experts from the Clarus Project, led by experts from Dundee’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, and Faculty of S
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A special issue of Juridical Review detailing the proceedings of an experimental workshop has been published. Scotify! was an event organised by Strathclyde Law School academic Dr Jonathan Brown and hosted in September 2025, with support from Engage with Strathclyde.
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People struggling to access legal advice, communities facing barriers to healthcare, and individuals unable to exercise rights that already exist in law are among the challenges a new research centre at Robert Gordon University (RGU) aims to address. Bringing together experts in law, sociology, psyc
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Undocumented conversations, inconsistent terminology, and exposure to unnecessary contextual information can undermine the integrity of criminal investigations, a University of Dundee-led study has found. Research from the Horizon Europe-funded Clarus Project, spearheaded by Dundee experts, has high
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The Centre for Scots Law at the University of Aberdeen has hosted a book launch for two of its members, Professor Andrew Simpson and Dr Euan West.
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Police in North Carolina have urged motorists to put safety first after officers stopped two men travelling down a road on what they described as “an actual couch”. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said the incident was “certainly a first”, after officers spotted t
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Germany’s former spy chief has been arrested on suspicion of spying. August Hanning allegedly obtained thousands of classified documents from a former Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) colleague.
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A high school teacher was fired after offering students extra credit in return for cash donations to her personal GoFundMe account. Stephanie Mullaley, who taught in the Clinton Community School District in the US state of Iowa, told students that she was raising money for what she described as &ldq
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An Arizona man sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter must be resentenced after an appeal court found that an AI-generated video depicting his victim addressing him and the judge was unreliable. Gabriel Paul Horcasitas was convicted over the 2021 shooting of Christopher Pelkey during a road-rage enc
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Canada’s federal prisons are to provide inmates with paper straws, foil and drug-testing strips as part of a harm-reduction strategy addressing illicit drug use. Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) said the measures would “reduce harm” by lowering the risks associated with snortin
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