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Anderson Strathern, has announced the appointment of five partners and seven directors. The new partners are Iain Baird, Scott Flannigan, Russell Laughland, Tim Macdonald and Laura Murray.
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Two police officers who had their firearms authorisation withdrawn after taking a photograph with a Scottish singer on the Cowgate have been awarded a combined sum of just under £50,000 after an Employment Tribunal in Edinburgh found that they had been discriminated against on the ground of se
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Successful silk applications have dropped to 39 per cent under the new Lord Justice General, Lord Pentland after years of very high rates under his predecessor. Twenty-eight applications for appointment to King's Counsel were made in the latest round: 23 from advocates and five from solicitor advoca
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The Scottish Arbitration centre has launched Mediation Rules in advance of it providing an administered mediation service. The announcement was made during the Edinburgh International Arbitration Festival (ArbFest2025).
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A lawyer who shares his name with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is suing the social media platform for repeatedly deactivating his account. In eight years, Mark Steven Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer in Indianapolis, has seen his official Facebook page suspended five times and his personal profil
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Anti-pickpocket activists in Venice have found themselves reported to the police for stalking and unauthorised filming of alleged pickpockets. A crime wave in the tourist hotspot has prompted calls for a crackdown by police – as well as the appearance of activist groups who follow and film sus
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Matheson Lawson has added solicitor Donna Carson as director to spearhead its new commercial property department. The firm, established earlier this year by Maureen Matheson and Victoria Lawson, was launched with a focus on private client services and residential conveyancing. The expansion into com
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Three leading Palestinian human rights groups have been sanctioned by the Trump administration for having engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) as it investigates Israeli war crimes. Al-Haq, which is based in the West Bank, has been targeted alongside the Gaza-based Al Mezan Center for
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A legal case against Celtic brought by victims of historical sexual abuse has concluded with settlements totalling more than £1 million. The payout has been shared among 24 former Celtic Boys Club players, while three cases will continue individually. Settlement terms have not been disclosed,
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There is a crucial lack of pace and breadth in Scotland’s land reform strategies according to a new coalition of organisations representing community groups, environmental bodies and land reformers from across the country. As the Parliament returns after summer recess, and with stage three of
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The owner of warehouse premises in Glasgow has successfully appealed to the Sheriff Appeal Court over a sheriff’s award of just over £147,700 in damages after he failed to repair the building’s roof under a commercial lease obligation, but only to the extent of reducing the award b
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Westwater Advocates' Rachel Shewan has been elevated to the rank and dignity of King’s Counsel. Ms Shewan called to the bar in 2014 following 18 years in private practice as a family law solicitor.
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Perhaps the Baltic states, those around the sea there, in recent decades have not been given as full attention as they ought to have. International politics have now changed everything. The core arguments by Oliver Moody are, first, that these states have been forced to develop the kind of resilienc
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