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An event being held next month will celebrate the life of Thomas Muir. Lenzie Academy, in East Dunbartonshire, is to host a symposium on the eighteenth-century Scottish champion of political democracy.
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Our sister publication Irish Legal News is seeking views from Scots lawyers on the standard of proof which should be applied in disciplinary tribunals. Members of the Law Society of Northern Ireland last week forced a U-turn on its position that there was now a "consensus" that the civil standard (o
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A Holyrood committee has backed another prisoner release scheme amid warnings of an “emergency situation” in Scotland’s prisons.
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The High Court of Justiciary has ruled that an accused who was taken into custody at his workplace and then searched by the police at his home address, for which they had a warrant, had not been subjected to an unlawful search, following a preliminary minute challenging the admissibility of evidence
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A multi-national company has been fined £176,000 for failing to prevent excessive smoke and noise pollution at the Mossmorran petrochemical plant in Fife. ExxonMobil Chemical Ltd pled guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to breaching pollution control regulations at the Cowdenbeath plant on vario
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A trio from Holmes Mackillop Solicitors is all set to raise funds for The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice by going on the run under cover of darkness at the John Muir Way Nocturnal Ultra Marathon on Saturday 8 November. The challenge is ‘simple’: runners have six hours to complete
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A woman due to serve a prison sentence in Lithuania for the murder of her youngest daughter has lost a challenge to her extradition based on her mental health diagnosis and the effect of her retrial in a Scottish prosecution on the amount of time she had served in custody. Ineta Gavenaite, who had p
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The Scottish Sentencing Council has detailed amendments to its draft sentencing guidelines for rape offences in a response to a public consultation. The response, set out in a report published today, "focuses on addressing those matters of most interest to respondents and explains how the guidelines
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A solicitor’s failure to comply with regulators and court orders “undermines the status of the profession” according to the Court of Session. At a hearing this week the court stopped short of finding a solicitor in contempt of court for failure to comply with a court order to deliv
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Charities should support anti-SLAPP reforms in Scotland to promote transparency and accountability in the sector, campaigners have said. Powerful individuals and businesses are normally those accused of using so-called strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) to avoid scrutiny.
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The head of a committee dealing with delays in drunk driving prosecutions has been charged with drunk driving – and has seen her own case delayed. Linsey LaMontagne is director of the Clark County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) in southern Nevada, covering an area including Las V
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The latest members' meeting of Edinburgh Conveyancers Forum (ECF) is taking place today, Tuesday 28 October, at 5.30pm. The meeting in Thorntons' Edinburgh office, at Citypoint 3rd Floor, 65 Haymarket Square EH12 5HD, will count for two hours' CPD.
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Homicide numbers in Scotland have fallen to their lowest level since comparable records began in 1976, according to official figures. Cases recorded by Police Scotland fell to 45 homicides in 2024-25, down 12 on the previous year.
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A sheriff has ordered a joiner hired to fit a kitchen in East Kilbride to pay just over £20,000 to the homeowner after determining that he had failed to meet the implied standard of work by not building plumb and square plasterboard walls and dismissed a claim for the remaining balance due. Pu
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