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A hotel in China has been ordered to stop waking guests by placing red pandas in their rooms. The unique wake-up service offered by Chongqing-based Lehe Ledu Liangjiang Holiday Hotel has become a hit with tourists and influencers.
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Mackinnons Solicitors fielded its first-ever football team to take part in the Aberdeen Corporate Business Fives event – a blend of friendly competition and charitable fundraising that brings together companies from across the region. The Business Fives tournament offers businesses the chance
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Recent headlines have reignited debate over the lack of regulation for expert witnesses in both civil and criminal cases. But amid calls for tighter oversight, it’s worth asking whether formal regulation would fix the problem or just add another layer of bureaucracy, writes Christine Rolland.
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The importance of technology for the future success of smaller legal firms has been underscored at a conference hosted by the Law Society of Scotland. Technology experts and smaller firm owners outlined the potential for technology to improve workplace efficiencies and client interactions while redu
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Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has defended the presumption against prosecuting children accused of rape amid a call for offenders under 16 to be treated as adults. Appearing before Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee yesterday, Ms Bain defended the Crown Office's policy of offering "diversion" as
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Palestine Action has announced plans to challenge the UK government in court over its plans to proscribe the direct action protest group under terrorism legislation. Gareth Peirce of Birnberg Peirce Solicitors, a high-profile lawyer who previously represented the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Si
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A fraudster who earned more than £500,000 by deceiving luxury hotels and stores into buying ‘unique’ Scottish-grown tea that was actually imported has been imprisoned for three-and-a-half years. Thomas Robinson, 55, of Dunkeld, Perthshire, also defrauded a group of genuine Scottish
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Catriona Torrance has been promoted to partner in the private client team at Balfour and Manson. Ms Torrance qualified as a solicitor in 2006 and has specialised throughout her career in private client work, including wills, powers of attorney, succession planning, and trusts.
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The board of the Scottish Arbitration Centre has appointed Rebecca Wyke as a deputy registrar. The announcement was made by Duncan Bagshaw, the registrar of the centre, at the centre’s arbitration training day in Edinburgh today.
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Kwik Fit, part of European Tyre Enterprise Limited (ETEL), has acquired a portfolio of 83 UK properties – which it currently occupies and includes over 30 sites in Scotland – as it aims to bring more sites into its direct ownership. Kwik Fit, whose ultimate parent company is
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Thompsons Solicitors Scotland has announced the opening of its new Edinburgh office at Greenside, 12 Blenheim Place.
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A student with dual citizenship of the UK and South Africa who was charged the higher rate of fees by a Scottish university after it realised that he had paid the wrong rate for his first two years of study has lost a judicial review challenge based on discrimination on the basis that he had fled fr
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President of the Supreme Court Lord Reed was in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica last Friday to deliver the keynote address at a conference entitled “From Traditional to European Judiciary”. Lord Reed was visiting at the invitation of the Supreme Court of Montenegro, with the supp
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The Scottish Liberal Democrats have warned that the police need the right skills and resources to tackle online sex crimes as new annual crime statistics showed sex crimes are now at their second highest level since 1971 when records began. Figures from Police Scotland show that:
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