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Rohingya refugees in the UK and US are suing social media giant Facebook for $150 billion over allegations that the platform helped to promote violence against the minority group in Myanmar. Facebook previously apologised in 2018 for not "doing enough to help prevent our platform from being used to
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The Lawscot Foundation has partnered with Hey Legal and Buddies Gin to give last minute shoppers the opportunity to buy unique gifts for the animal lovers, gin sippers and legal buffs in their lives. Paisley company Buddies Gin has produced an exclusive run of 100 limited-edition bottles of gin to c
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
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Cannabis taxes have been suspended in San Francisco to help legal dispensaries compete with black market drug dealers. The tax was due to come into force at the start of 2022 but will now be suspended until 31 December 2022 to support cannabis businesses, the San Francisco Examiner reports.
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A secondary school teacher who was hit on the head by a wooden partition while teaching at a school in Dundee has failed to prove before the Outer House of the Court of Session that his mental health deteriorated as a result of the accident. Fenrir Thorvaldsen claimed that the accident had left him
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights has called on the government to amend proposals in the Judicial Review and Courts Bill which could deny judicial remedies and remove a safeguard against flawed asylum decisions. The bill proposes changes to the courts’ power to make ‘quashing orders&rs
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A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the deaths of Lamara Bell and John Yuill more than six years after they died in an accident on the M9. The announcement follows the news that a £1 million payout has been made to the family of Lamara Bell by Police Scotland.
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The Law Commission of England and Wales has announced recommendations to reform hate crime legislation to ensure that disabled and LGBT+ victims receive the same protections as victims with other protected characteristics. The commission is also making a number of recommendations to protect women an
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Dozens of solicitors gathered outside Holyrood yesterday to demonstrate their deep dissatisfaction with the Scottish government’s inaction to reform legal aid.Ken Dalling, president of the Law Society of Scotland, said: “This crisis has been a generation in the making and the system is
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Harper Macleod has expanded its business development team with the addition of experienced solicitor Laura Meldrum. Ms Meldrum, who until recently was a senior solicitor in the employment law team at Anderson Strathern, joins the firm as a business development associate.
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Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace private client partner, Amy Watson, has joined the management committee of the Society of Advocates, Aberdeen. Ms Watson joins an established management committee, including her RCCW colleague, consultant Anne Boyd.
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Model allows tenants to pay a monthly fee to a third party which gives landlord written guarantee instead of the cash deposit, says Finlay Campbell. For years it’s been the case that where a tenant of commercial premises, especially if they are
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The Faculty’s very own fictional advocate makes his return this Christmas in The Scotsman in Edward Kane and the Innocent Railway.
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The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the sentence in a drink driving case to the High Court of Justiciary. On 25 October 2020, Anita Frame pled guilty to a contravention of section 5(1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
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I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
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