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Popular music streaming service Spotify has been slapped with a £1.1bn lawsuit for failing to pay royalties on songs including Tom Petty's Free Fallin. Wixen Music Publishing, which has launched the lawsuit in the US, claims that Spotify's catalogue of music includes a large proportion of unlicense
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A woman who challenged the legality of differential treatment of Northern Ireland residents who are not able to undergo an abortion free-of-charge under the NHS in England, has had her appeal to the Supreme Court dismissed by a 3:2 majority. Delivering the leading majority judgment of the Court, Lor
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The Supreme Court will rule next week on a challenge to the Secretary of State for Health over his failure to make abortion available on the NHS in England to women from Northern Ireland. Judgment in R (on the application of A and B) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Health (Respondent) will be
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A group of volunteers from Glasgow Caledonian University Law Clinic are taking to Buchanan Street this Wednesday to lend a helping hand to the community.
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a fixed-price system for the sale by pharmacies of prescription-only medicinal products for human use is incompatible with the free movement of goods. The Deutsche Parkinson Vereinigung is a German self-help organisation which seeks to improve the l
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Four members of Edinburgh Law School took part in the University's “Big Leap” on Sunday by abseiling down the Law School's temporary home, David Hume Tower, to raise funds for the University's Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC). Rebecca Samaras (director of Edinburgh Centre for Professional Legal S
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Philip Gormley Scotland’s new chief constable is to live rent-free in a government-owned castle.
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Ian Maxwell Speaking at the organisation's 2015 annual general meeting the national manager of FNF Scotland, Ian Maxwell, issued a call for a cultural change in both Scottish family law and the way that Scottish family courts operate.
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Yves Bot The Scottish government's plans to create a minimum unit price for alcohol could adversely affect the free movement of goods the Advocate General to the European Court of Justice has said.
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Andrew John Robertson, managing director of McClure Solicitors McClure Solicitors has teamed up with an Edinburgh charity to produce wills for free.
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Justice Secretary Michael Gove Outlining plans to end “grotesque inefficiencies” in the courts Justice Secretary Michael Gove said lawyers may face legislation forcing them to work for free in order to deal with “indefensible inequalities in the justice system”.
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Today at least 80 per cent of the case load of the High Court of Justiciary is sex crime. The Children’s Hearing system has seen a huge increase in child-on-child sexual abuse in recent years. Whether it is for downloading indecent images of children, rape, domestic violence, sexual assau
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Steve Dougherty challenges the shortcomings of the current planning and regulatory system and asks if a quasi-free market approach would appeal to some prospective home-owners in Scotland. For over 30 years I’ve advised clients on all matters pertaining to commercial real estate and obser
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Aileen Campbell Women from Northern Ireland can now access abortion services free of charge, through Scotland’s NHS.
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The demand for free legal advice has soared in the wake of legal aid cuts and court fees according to a report by a charity that organises pro bono clinics. LawWorks' report found a 55 per cent increase in applications in the last financial year. There were over 43,000 inquiries at law firms in the
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