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Holyrood has voted for the first time to consider legalising assisted dying for people with terminal illnesses, following a lengthy debate. MSPs backed the bill by 70 votes to 56 in a free vote, after months of cross-party pre-legislative scrutiny. The result comes just days before MPs at Westminste
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An Edinburgh sheriff has made no recommendations following the conclusion of a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a man who was struck by a tram after finding that the defects that led to his death had been addressed appropriately. Carlos Correa died aged 53 on 11 September 2018 while crossing
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A man who died while having sex at his workplace was the victim of an industrial accident, a Chinese court has ruled. The man, who was in his 60s, suddenly died during a rendezvous with his long-time girlfriend in a private room at the factory where he worked as a security guard.
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Lawyers at Levy & McRae completed a charity skydive on Easter Sunday.
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The Law Society of Scotland has urged MSPs to consider a number of important technical legal matters separate from the moral and ethical questions in relation to proposed assisted dying legislation. The stage one debate for the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill is due to comme
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Over 60 organisations have written to the UK government ahead of a major meeting of the Council of Europe, urging them to back proposals for an additional binding Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights that would recognise the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. The
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The UK government has been urged to rethink its immigration white paper to "take account of Scotland’s distinct population needs". Following publication of new proposals from the Home Office on immigration, the Scottish government called on the UK government to take account of its own proposal
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A news organisation based in the USA has lost an Employment Appeal Tribunal appeal against a decision that a UK employment tribunal had jurisdiction in a dispute over claim by a British journalist initially employed by its Atlanta office for unfair dismissal and various other kinds of discrimination
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Shoosmiths has appointed two principal associates and two associates to its real estate practice in Scotland. Ben Harper-Phillips has joined as a principal associate, having recently relocated to Scotland from Australia. An experienced real estate solicitor, who has been recognised in Best Lawyers i
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Lawyers have responded with incredulity to the Trump administration's suggestion it could suspend habeas corpus rights in response to judges blocking or delaying deportations. Stephen Miller, the White House's deputy chief of staff, said on Friday that a suspension of the right of a detained person
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Keir Starmer has announced a major crackdown on immigration to the UK in order to end what he called an "experiment in open borders". Echoing the language of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the wake of his triumph in recent English local elections, Mr Starmer said yesterday his new approach to immi
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Terra Firma Chambers’ Derek Francis has been awarded the Chartered Institute of Taxation and Association of Taxation Technicians Certificate of Merit and Appreciation at the CIOT and ATT Joint Presidents’ Reception held last Thursday at The Royal Yacht Britannia, Edinburgh. The award was
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Last week’s Programme for Government marked one year as first minister for John Swinney and also fell exactly one year until voters go to the polls in arguably one of the most important Scottish elections since devolution, writes Scott Wright. The programme was brought forward by the first min
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