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Glasgow has raced out of the starting blocks in its bid to double the size of its city centre population over the next 15 years to 40,000, writes Martin Devine. Civic leaders were last week handed a very welcome boost to their ambitions to deliver their City Centre Living Strategy (CCLS) when LGIM R

The University of Strathclyde's Mediation Clinic has hosted a virtual AGM. Students, alumni and experienced practitioners joined the meeting from places as far-flung as India, Canada, Germany, Italy, England – and even the Isle of Arran.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has recorded 1,627 data breaches over the entirety of the 2019-20 financial year, up from 1,378 in the previous financial year, according to official figures.  The data, contained in the annual CPS report and analysed by Griffin Law, a UK litigation practice,

A daughter is suing a historian who claims the woman's mother had a relationship with an SS guard. The woman is suing academic Anna Hájková, associate professor of modern continental European history at Warwick University in a court in Frankfurt for €25,000.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Pat Finucane case returns to court over UK government delay | Irish Legal News

Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

A police crackdown on speeding cyclists has been met with widespread derision on social media. Officers in Toronto posted photos on social media of them using radar guns to track the speed of cyclists on bike paths.

A taxi driver who had his licence suspended by a local authority on the ground of no longer being a fit and proper person to hold such a licence has had his appeal against the decision refused.  Scott McMillan argued that West Lothian Council had made several errors in their cons

A former Supreme Court president has warned that when a society deprives people of the right to challenge the government in court "you are in a dictatorship; you are in a tyranny". In a discussion on the Internal Market Bill, Lord Neuberger, David Neuberger, a former president of the Supreme Co

The Internal Market Bill should be withdrawn by the UK government after consent for it was denied by a majority of the Scottish Parliament, Constitution Secretary Michael Russell has said. MSPs backed the Scottish government’s legislative consent memorandum, which states the bill threatens dev

The Dean of Faculty has made a personal plea to the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary: stop denigrating the legal profession. Mr Dunlop has written to Boris Johnson and Priti Patel following speeches in recent days in which references were made to “lefty human rights lawyers and other do-g

Niall McCluskey and Christian McNeill take a critical look at the latest coronavirus rules. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. The corollary is that the state attempts to create laws that are certain.

Urgent measures are needed to address the increase in Scotland's prison population, a Council of Europe human rights delegation has said. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published a report made following a visit to Scotl

After she left her role at Burness Paull to join London media practice Simkins, Fiona McAllister – now a lawyer at Channel 4 – began looking for an extra-curricular activity that would allow her to contribute to society while at the same time not being too closely related to her day job.