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DWF has trained 50 colleagues in the Edinburgh and Glasgow offices to administer CPR to support "Save a Life for Scotland" and to help raise awareness of the importance of bystander CPR.

A 45-year old man from New Jersey has been indicted on a fourth-degree charge of "throwing bodily fluids" after substituting toilet paper with a police summons. According to the indictment, Joseph Greenwood took the summons, placed it between his "butt cheeks", wiped up and down, then threw it at a

Prosecutors are being asked to justify a multi-million pound investigation into newspapers after the last two journalists brought to trial in Operation Elveden were cleared. Chris Pharo, 46, news editor at The Sun as well as Jamie Pyatt, 52, a reporter, were acquitted at the Old Bailey of paying a p

A man who was left paralysed following a road traffic accident in which he struck by a car outside a hotel is to be awarded damages after the driver admitted liability. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the driver of the vehicle, who was sentenced to nine months imprisonment and banned from

A case involving “serious” assault charges has been abandoned of because of an administrative blunder. Muhammad Tariq, 46, was on trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court accused of assaulting a child and a woman in the city.

A rugby player given probation for attempted rape now faces a life sentence after he was convicted of raping two other women at the High Court in Edinburgh. Jamie Rudling, 27, was given three years' probation in March 2010 after he tried to have sex with two sleeping women without their consent.

The High Court in Tours, France has ruled that a 64-year-old intersex person's birth certificate should be amended to record their gender as "neutral". In an historic ruling on 20 August, the magistrate said that the "gender assigned at birth appears to be nothing but a fiction, forced on this perso

John Swinney Deputy First Minister John Swinney has accepted a recommendation that will see Scotland with a comprehensive information service about any piece of land or property in Scotland.

Julie Brown Lawyer Julie Brown has been appointed vice president of the Scottish Food Trade Association (SFTA) just months after joining the association's executive committee.

The Law Society of Scotland RFC are participating in the Law Rugby World Cup 2015 hosted by the Law Society RFC at Richmond Athletic Ground between 14 and 16 October 2015.

Registration & coffee: 8.30 to 9am Workshop: 9am to 12noon (with coffee break)

The Law Society of Scotland is calling for judges for the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament 2015/16. Over 100 schools from all over Scotland will be taking part in what is now Scotland's largest annual school debating competition and a panel of three judges is required for each debating sess

Lord Denning A majority of law students think the legal profession is socially exclusive according to a survey undertaken for The Times.

A New York cab driver can continue paying $0 a month to live in a hotel in the city's wealthy Chelsea district, a judge has ruled. Oltimdje Ouattara, who applied to become a permanent tenant at the hotel under New York's Single Room Occupancy law, was initially paying $48 a night to stay at an illeg

Two women who claimed their estranged husbands hid the true extent of their finances and that they were entitled to more money in their divorce settlements have won their appeals at the UK Supreme Court. In both cases, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, sitting with Deputy President Lad