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The RBoS Shareholders Action Group has voted to accept an 82p a share offer to finally settle with Royal Bank of Scotland over its disastrous 2008 rights issue. The group comprises 9,000 private and commercial shareholders who claimed they were duped into handing £12 billion to the bank during the
The Law Society of Scotland has called for increased investment, less bureaucracy and better use of technology to ensure the long-term sustainability of legal aid. The Law Society has set out a series of recommendations in its comprehensive submission to an independent review of legal aid in Scotlan
A former solicitor who was jailed for fraud has had his prison diary published as a daily blog, The Herald reports. Lawrence Rew, 70, was handed a 10-month sentence in 2008 after he took £25,000 from a client’s bank account.
Legislation to make civil justice more affordable and accessible for all has today been published at Holyrood. The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Bill, if passed by Parliament, will:
The European Court of Human Rights has announced the start of a new procedure allowing for more detailed reasoning to be given when a judge declares an application inadmissible. Since Protocol No 14 came into force in 2010, a single judge has been able to declare an application inadmissible.
Laura Meldrum, an employment solicitor at Anderson Strathern LLP, has been re-elected president of the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association as the committee for 2017-18 was selected last night. The executive committee now comprises Laura Meldrum as president, Lucy Thornton (Anderson Strathern LLP) as
Keoghs has doubled the partner count at its new Glasgow office by appointing Emily Jeffrey and David Hennessy, who join from Brodies.It follows the arrival of Stefanie Johnston and Douglas Cowan, who spearheaded the UK firm’s expansion into Scotland in April.
The number and value of fines handed out by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for breach of UK data protection laws nearly doubled in the last year, The Brief reports. Figures obtained from the ICO show that 35 fines worth £3.2 million were issued in 2016, up from 18 fines worth £2 milli
A planning application for the first new Highland prison in over a century has been lodged with Highland Council.
A senior Indian judge has come under fire after suggesting that peacocks follow "life-long celibacy". Judge Mahesh Sharma of the Rajasthan High Court said the peacock's purported "pious" celibacy was why it is India's national bird.
A man has been convicted of defamation for liking Facebook posts. The unnamed 45-year-old man was convicted in a Swiss court on Monday after liking several Facebook posts in 2015 which accused the CEO of an animal rights group of racism and anti-Semitism.
A seriously injured former police officer has had to drop her compensation case and cannot afford to raise fresh proceedings after the presiding sheriff’s conflict of interest was only realised three days into the case. Lynsey Henderson, 43, who served as a policewoman for 18 years suffered seriou
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