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The Crown Office is to re-examine the death of a student who took his own life after a grading error at the University of Glasgow. Ethan Brown, 24, died in December 2024 on the day he was due to graduate.
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Extreme H, the hydrogen motorsport series, has announced Shoosmiths as its official legal services provider. The partnership will see Shoosmiths support Extreme H as it launches a new era for global motorsport. The firm has been advising Extreme E since its inception in 2019 when it launched the wor
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The introduction of the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill has been welcomed by the Economy and Fair Work committee. The bill would place a duty on all local authorities to work with public bodies to adopt a community wealth building (CWB) partnership approach. According to the bill, this wou
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Terra Firma Chambers in conjunction with SOLAR hosted a Common Good Conference at The Mackenzie Building, Edinburgh on 29 September. The event was chaired by Terra Firma’s stable director, Alasdair Burnet KC, and featured talks by fellow TFC members Mark Lazarowicz, Francesca Glendinning
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A sheriff has granted an application by a single woman in her late forties to adopt a four-year-old child and dispensed with the consent of her parents after determining that they would be unable to satisfactorily discharge their responsibilities for the foreseeable future and the orders they propos
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A conference on censorship was cancelled after participants objected to diktats on what they could and could not say in their presentations. The conference, titled "Redacted: Navigating the Complexities of Censorship", was set to take place at Weber Sate University in the US state of Utah on 2 and 3
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Arnot Manderson Advocates have again received high praise from the Legal 500 upon the release of their latest bar rankings. Members were once again ranked across all seven practice areas, further solidifying its reputation as a leading full-service stable. Leading the way is experienced and respecte
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Slater and Gordon has moved its Edinburgh office to 8 Charlotte Square. The Georgian townhouse is part of the Charlotte Square Collection, a portfolio of 23 properties within Edinburgh’s prime business address.
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An annual mock trial supported by Scots lawyers to help promote legal education in schools will take place this weekend. The Edinburgh Schools MiniTrials will see children from eight local secondary schools taking part in mock assault and drugs trials which will be presided over by members of the Fa
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Sahrawi organisations have condemned the European Commission for continuing to pursue a trade deal with Morocco which includes occupied Western Sahara in spite of a landmark EU court ruling. The Sahrawi people are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert.
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Short-term prisoners due for release within the next six months are to be released early under "emergency proposals" to tackle prison overcrowding, if Holyrood agrees. The prison population has surged by more than 200 in the past three months and now stands at 8,363, one of the highest levels ever r
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Measures to "enhance and improve" the performance of Holyrood committees have been published in a new report by the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. The report follows the committee’s inquiry on committee effectiveness which explored how committees were performing and w
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RTA Law LLP has announced the promotion of Zara Jones to partner. Ms Jones started her legal career with RTA Law initially as a summer student before commencing her traineeship in 2017. She is a passionate believer in the firm’s mission to protect and represent vulnerable road users, including
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