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A drunk man who was reported missing after losing his friends inadvertently joined a search party looking for himself – for several hours. Beyhan Mutlu, from north-west Turkey, was reported missing by family after he wandered into a forest and lost contact with others, the Daily Sabah reports.
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A new expert advisory forum on land and human rights has met for the first time to discuss the relationship between property rights and wider economic, social, and cultural rights. The forum has been set up through a partnership between Scotland’s land reform body, the Scottish Land Commission
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The watchdog Ofcom has added the words "nat" and "yoon" to its list of offensive terms. The broadcasting regulator tested audience responses to political terms for the first time as part of research into offensive language.
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More than 800 SMEs are now plaintiffs in a legal case against the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks after hundreds more joined the lawsuit. The claim form, filed in the Chancery Division of the High Court, contained a further 436 claims on behalf of a further 266 SMEs.
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There has been a sharp increase in the number of bicycles reported as stolen over lockdown, new figures show. In tandem with the rise in the number of people cycling over the past 18 months there has been a 20 per cent increase in reports of thefts.
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Ian Robinson tells budding immigration lawyers what he wishes he had known at the outset of his career. As a firm we work in every area of immigration, other than asylum. That means helping skilled people, entrepreneurs, families and others move to or stay in the UK, including pro bono support for v
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The late Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore "embodied" the case for always having a judge from Northern Ireland on the Supreme Court bench, Lady Hale has said. The former Supreme Court president reflected on the importance of the court having judges from all parts of the United Kingdom as she addressed a virtu
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Advocate Tim Haddow has returned to practice after completing a short mobilisation in his capacity as an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve. As Lieutenant Commander Haddow, he was mobilised to the staff of Commander UK Carrier Strike Group in late July. He deployed to Japan as liaison officer to the
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A judge has brought to a halt a lawsuit filed by Evel Knievel’s son that accused Disney of profiting from the daredevil's image through Toy Story 4 character Duke Caboom. Kelly Knievel had claimed the character was based on his father without permission and amounted to unjust enrichment and an
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A lawyer caught driving while nearly four times the drink-drive limit claimed that homemade kombucha tea was to blame. Louise Taylor, 41, told a court in Llandudno, Wales that she was not a drinker and had been given the tea by a friend for her gut health.
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More permanent sheriffs may be needed to cope with rising criminal business, the Lord President and Lord Justice General, Lord Carloway, has said.
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Judicial salaries have been frozen for a year, new figures from the Ministry of Justice show.
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There were 14,130 cybercrimes recorded by the police in Scotland in 2020-21, almost double the 2019-20 figure. Sexual crimes, meanwhile, decreased by two per cent from 13,364 to 13,131, new figures show.
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Former SNP MP and solicitor Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh has been found guilty of professional misconduct for a second time by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal. Ms Ahmed-Sheikh, 50, was found guilty of “recklessness by omission” during her tenure as the designated cashroom part
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