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A language group has intervened in a copyright infringement case to appeal for Klingon to be recognised as a living language. The Language Creation Society, which supports and encourages the creation of artificial languages, has filed an amicus brief in a copyright case in the U.S. District Court fo

A retired lawyer has won a dispute with his former partners in a solicitors’ firm over his entitlement to a share of the partnership assets. A judge has ruled that the partnership agreement made no provision for division of the firm’s assets on the retirement of a partner due to age, and therefo

Professor Lorne Crerar and Martin Darroch

John Rutherford Aberdeen based John Rutherford has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a consultant to head up and develop the firm’s Aberdeen operations.

Richard Lloyd A company that made over 2.5 million nuisance calls has been handed a £50,000 fine.

Jessica Simor QC The candidates competing to be the next British judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been named, The Guardian reports.

Pictured (L-R): Chris Chivers, president, CIOB; Neil Kelly and Ian Gracie, chair, CIOB Scotland.

The Faculty of Advocates 2015 by Mark Roscoe, associate member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Courtesy of Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists

Professor Jim Murdoch The University of Glasgow’s professor of public law, Jim Murdoch, is to receive the fifth annual "European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities".

David Johnstone The demand for more transparency over land ownership in Scotland will be at the heart of a landowners’ conference next month.

The controversial frontrunner in the Philippine presidential elections has vowed to pardon himself for murder if elected. Rodrigo Duterte, 71, has a comfortable lead over the other candidates in the south-east Asian country's looming election in May.

A decision by the Sheriff Appeal Court to remit a case of a man convicted of a road traffic offence to the sentencing sheriff to alter the disposal and impose a competent sentence was not within its powers, appeal judges have ruled. The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court held that the Sheriff App

Aidan O’Neill QC Two ex-pat Britons have failed in their High Court bid for the right to vote in the EU referendum in June.

Addi Shamash Following the announcement that corporate insolvencies in Scotland fell by almost 10 per cent in the final quarter of last year, Addi Shamash, corporate restructuring partner in HBJ Gateley’s Aberdeen office, said while parts of the Scottish economy were enjoying strong growth, severa

Sir Tom Hunter The Hunter Foundation has teamed up with some of the UK’s leading European scholars to produce a free ebook to answer voters’ questions before the EU referendum on 23 June.