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Solicitors are not being threatened by other will-writing service providers in the wake of deregulation in 2011, new research carried out by Will Aid suggests. Although there are slight year-on-year fluctuations in the percentage of people using a solicitor to write their will, the proportion was hi
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Leigh Kirkpatrick, a solicitor at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh, has won this year’s “Law Society of Scotland In-House Lawyers’ Group Rising Star Award”. The award was presented at the Law Society’s Law in Scotland Conferencereception, along with a presentation to the Scottish La
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From left: Joanne Romanis, Brian Inkster and Robert Wild (photo taken by Rob McDougall)
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The European Court of Human Rights has today launched a multilingual Twitter accountECHRPublication reserved for news on case-law publications, translations and the HUDOC case-law database. Registrar Erik Fribergh said: “Over recent years the Court has stepped up its efforts to improve the underst
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On 29 September the European court of Human Rights (ECtHR) invited the Russian government to submit its observations on the admissibility of a new inter-state application lodged by the government of Ukraine on 27 August 2015, under Article 33 (inter-state cases) of the European Convention on Human R
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A postman in Cupar who was fired following allegations that he stole mail has been reinstated by an employment tribunal. David Mitchell, 57, was dismissed last December after 27 years with Royal Mail. His bosses accused him of stealing greeting cards containing money and gift vouchers, but failed to
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The UK's third-largest trade union is facing legal action from its own members, who say the union did not reach an agreeable settlement over an equal pay dispute with a local authority. Hundreds of low-wage women workers at North Lanarkshire Council are looking into negligence claims against the GMB
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The family of a Glasgow woman who went to Syria to join ISIS has criticised international sanctions against her after the US became the latest country to add her to a blacklist.
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The second Parliament Hall historical exhibition has been a great success attracting nearly 3,500 visitors from all over the world. The exhibition - Parliament House, The Hidden Gem - which ran from 7 August to 26 September, was also a venue during the Edinburgh Fringe and brought in more visitors o
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A teaching assistant at a school in Manchester who seduced a school pupil and had sex with him 50 times has avoided jail and instead been given a two year suspended sentence and 250 hours' community service. The schoolboy, who cannot be named, had unprotected sex with teaching assistantCaroline Berr
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Members of Scottish Ensemble, the UK’s only professional string orchestra, will begin their 2015/16 Shetland season with a programme of duos for violin and viola, performed by husband-and-wife team Jonathon Morton and Clio Gould, at Mareel, Lerwick on 29 September. Mr Morton is the current artist
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Russia's media claims that police are investigating tech giant Apple over its illegal promotion of homosexuality in the country after it introduced LGBT emojis on its devices. Officials in Kirov have apparently launched a case after concerns Apple is in breach of the law were raised by a local lawye
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The Crown Office's Civil Recovery Unit has recovered £212,800 under an agreed civil settlement with a Glenrothes based company which accepted that it had benefited from unlawful conduct by a third party. Brand-Rex Limited is a developer of cabling solutions for network infrastructure and industrial
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