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An optician's shop called the "Spex Pistols" has been forced to rebrand following legal action from the punk band that inspired their name. The store in Dundee has changed its name and logo after more than 15 years, The Courier reports.

Dr Titilayo Adebola, senior lecturer and director of Aberdeen University's Centre for Commercial Law, delivered the keynote address at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)’s Worldwide Symposium on Geographical Indications 2025.  The symposium was jointly organised by WIPO a

Thorntons is continuing its strategic growth with the appointment of Ricardo Matteo as a partner in the firm’s newly established banking team. His addition further broadens Thorntons’ corporate and commercial offering and follows the firm’s recent merger with Macnabs.

Lewis and Harris, or Lewis with Harris, are one – a Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides, around 24 miles from the Scottish mainland. With an area of 841 square miles it is the largest island in Scotland and the third largest in the British Isles, after Great Britain and Ireland.

A former member of the Household Cavalry has lost a case against the Ministry of Defence in which he claimed that he was negligently exposed to unsafe levels of noise while working with armoured vehicles in order to test them for future military use. Jonathan Bevan drove and tested Ajax armoured veh

An inquiry has been launched by Holyrood's Criminal Justice Committee into tackling harms caused by substance misuse in Scottish prisons. The inquiry is split into three parts and will consider the impact of substances, including drugs and alcohol, in Scotland’s prisons. The first part will lo

Two men who set up a drugs trafficking network worth hundreds of thousands of pounds have been imprisoned for a total of nine years. Jamie Montgomery, 44, and Darrin Campbell, 39, both of Glasgow, orchestrated the sale and supply of large quantities of cocaine and cannabis.

How willing would you be to hand over your mobile phone to the police if they asked to examine its contents? Why are many suspicious of facial recognition technology, yet happy to use this to unlock their digital devices? These are themes that University of Dundee and Open University experts are hel

A Saudi-based Scottish worker whose home in Whiteness was subjected to a second home council tax premium has succeeded in having the case remitted to the First-tier Tribunal following an appeal to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. A second home levy of £2,048.49 was imposed on Mr A, the appella

Interest from American buyers in UK property has reached its highest level in eight years, with Edinburgh emerging as the most popular destination, according to new figures from Rightmove. The data comes shortly after it was revealed that applications for UK citizenship from US nationals are at reco

An original issue of the Magna Carta, long mistaken for a copy and sold in the 1940s for what one historian described as a “fairly derisory price”, has been identified at Harvard Law School Library. The document was acquired in 1946 from a London bookseller for just $27.50, before its tr

Proposals for new Law Society of Scotland rules aim to increase protections for people who have set up trusts with solicitors. The new rules, which will be considered by members at the Law Society’s annual general meeting in June, would require law firms to ensure they maintain a central recor

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