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DAC Beachcroft has been named one of the 50 best businesses to work for in Scotland by Best Companies. Employees across DAC Beachcroft’s offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh took part in Best Companies’ employee engagement survey late last year, responding to 70 questions about the
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A man has admitted that he tried to rob a bank because he wanted to be sent to a prison rumoured to have the best food. William Gallagher, 68, appeared in court in Wisconsin less than a year after leaving prison in New Jersey.
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Harper Macleod has recruited Fiona Neilson, one of the Highlands' best known corporate and commercial lawyers, as a partner in its Inverness office. Ms Neilson, for many years a partner at Ledingham Chalmers, has joined the team advising businesses and organisations of all sizes on all of their corp
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A town council has scrapped its long-standing ban on snowball fights after a sustained campaign by a local nine-year-old. Dane Best, who lives in Severance, a small town in the US state of Colorado, found out about the obscure, largely unenforced law during a school trip to the town hall.
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Lord Hodge has expressed his doubt that complex financial crimes are best tried before a jury instead of a tribunal or court of specialists. The UK Supreme Court justice made the remarks in a speech in Shanghai on "The involvement of the public in the criminal process in the United Ki
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Divorce judges will assign custody over pets on a similar basis to custody over children under new legislation in California. Judges are now legally required to consider an animal's best interests in divorce proceedings and can order shared ownership of a pet.
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Congratulations to Emily Ross on winning the Shepherd & Wedderburn Prize for the best student in property law at Aberdeen University. Emily is pictured here being awarded the prize by Dr Susan Stokeld.
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The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken SLN assistant editor Kapil Summan reflects on the presumption of innocence in one of the best legal books of modern times.
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The doors are opening on one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets – Parliament Hall in Edinburgh – the venue for the popular exhibition Parliament House: The Hidden Gem. The show which runs throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe gives a fascinating look back through Scotland&rsqu
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Hannah Franziska is the winner of the 2018 Cloch® Quaich for the best intellectual property law-related dissertation at the University of Aberdeen. Ms Franziska's dissertation explored “Geo-blocking of online copyright-protected content in the EU – a justified infringement of the fre
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An official opening of the refurbished Faculty library at the High Court in Glasgow has helped to give the west-coast criminal bar "the best facilities for many a long day".
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The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has announced how it intends to work with the profession to eliminate unfair treatment of female barristers.
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Colin Hulme Burness Paull LLP has been named the best in Scotland at a global awards ceremony.
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Alexander McCall Smith International best-selling author, Alexander McCall Smith, is teaming up with a nameless 17th century girl to help the fight against modern slavery and people trafficking.
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