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The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary has refused to pass a Bill of Suspension seeking the suspension of a warrant authorising the arrest of a man charged by the police with assault to severe injury. Brian Docherty had previously been released from police custody and attended Dunoon Sheri
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The Scottish courts were used to conduct politics in a 2018 case over the triggering of article 50, the Attorney General, Suella Braverman QC MP, has claimed. In a speech to the 2021 Public Law Project Conference in which she denounced 'political litigation', Ms Braverman said that the flexibility o
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The latest figures from Registers of Scotland (ROS) show that the average price of a property in Scotland in August 2021 was £180,832, an increase of 16.9 per cent on August 2020. Compared with the previous month, house prices in Scotland increased by 1.7 per cent between July 2021 and Au
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A sheriff in Livingston Sheriff Court has found that a charge under Section 1 of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour against an accused’s ex-partner was able to be sufficiently corroborated by Crown evidence. The accused, JH, was charged with str
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The Crown Office has paid out £35 million over its malicious prosecutions relating to Rangers FC, its accounts show. The 2020/21 accounts, laid before Holyrood last week, show that £40.5m of taxpayer money has so far been earmarked for Rangers-related cases.
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UK law firms' fees and profits are exceeding expectations this year, a report from PwC shows. Its 30th Law Firms’ Survey showed that just under three-quarters of firms reported an increase in fee income with 76 per cent seeing profit increases. The findings are consonant with the figures from
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On 15 October 2021, Sheriff Martin Edington sat for the last time at Livingston Sheriff Court as its senior sheriff. After more than 20 years on the shrieval bench, Sheriff Edington will officially retire on 27 October. From 1999 until 2003, Sheriff Edington presided as a temporary sheriff, then an
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A Sudanese man who made an asylum claim based on his alleged involvement in an anti-government movement has had his petition for judicial review of the decision to reject his claim refused by the Court of Session. The petitioner and appellant, AHT, originally had his petition refused by the Outer Ho
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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. India re-elected to UN Human Rights Council with overwhelming majority - India News
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With recent studies showing that nine in ten women feel menopause affects their work, many employers are reassessing the needs of their employees and introducing menopause support resources in the workplace. In order to support and educate employers on how best to handle menopause in the workplace,
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Thursday 4 November 2021 | 5:30pm-7:00pm Lord Hodge is to lecture next month on the importance of embracing developments in technology to best uphold the rule of law in modern democratic society.
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Dr Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie of MurrayBlackburnMackenzie take issue with the omission of the sex characteristic in Scotland’s hate crime framework and the lack of transparency in the work of the Kennedy group. Following the sentencing of Wayne Couzens for the k
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Thursday 21 October 2021 at 6pm The SYLA is pleased to present the next event in its 'So you want to be...' series – an event aimed at those wishing to learn more about life as an in-house lawyer – sponsored by Fraser Irvine Sheriff Officers.
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Fur robes given to former US president Donald Trump by the Saudi royal family have turned out to be fake. The gifts, which were given to Trump during his first-ever foreign visit as president in 2017, were seized by US authorities this summer.
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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Iran: Civil rights lawyer on hunger strike due to harassment in prison | The Jerusalem Post
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