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Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP (RTALS) has appointed Roz Boynton as an associate solicitor to extend the firm’s specialist motorcycle, cycle and pedestrian legal services in Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness. Ms Boynton will be heading up the new Aberdeen office to provide further local
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A solicitor in Angus has called for electric shock collars used on dogs to be banned after a “cursed” St Bernard was saved from death, The Courier reports. Nick Whelan said the Scottish government should ban the “barbaric” devices which deliver shocks for bad behaviour.
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A parliamentary draughtsman has warned that the length of new bills and the number of clauses they include is becoming so great that Parliament is unable to scrutinise them properly. In a new report entitled Dangerous Trends in Modern Legislation... and how to reverse them, published by the Centre f
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Most adults in Scotland experienced no crime in 2014/15 and both the overall number of crimes and the risk of being a victim of crime have continued the decreasing trend seen in recent years according to new figures. Scotland’s chief statistician today released the Scottish Crime and Justice Surve
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Lord Carloway, the Lord Justice-Clerk (far left) and Lord Keen of Elie QC (far right)
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A sheriff took the unusual step yesterday of moving his courtroom to a van in the car park of the court. Sheriff Michael Wood at Perth Sheriff Court, which makes its second appearance in our “And finally” section (click here for the first), convened the court in the back of a G4S van to conduct
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L to R: Derek Duncan, Partner at RSB macdonald; Lesley Macdonald, Partner at RSB macdonald; (at front) Alasdair Cummings, Managing Partner, Lindsays; (at back right) Derek Petrie, Partner, Lindsays Scottish law firms RSB macdonald and Lindsays are set to merge with effect from 6 July 2015, both comp
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Police are on the hunt for three people who allegedly fled from a cosmetic surgery clinic without paying a £2,000 bill. The two women and one man had Botox and lip enhancers injected at Persona Cosmetic Medicine Clinic in south-east London.
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The death has been announced of Ian Simpson QC, who served 18 years as a sheriff and was also a temporary judge before he retired. He was 68. Sheriff Simpson was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1974, and took silk in 2005.
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The Court of Session has refused an appeal by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) against the court's decision to refuse a judicial review of legislation introducing a minimum unit pricing (MUP) on alcohol. The SWA challenged the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012, arguing that minimum pr
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A full obituary of Glasgow-born judge Sir Swinton Thomas has today been published by The Herald. Sir Swinton, 85, a former judge of England's High Court and Court of Appeal, was recognised for his defence of privacy rights and questioning of the Wilson Doctrine, which he felt gave MPs more rights th
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