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A convicted killer who broke into a charity shop was caught after stopping for a mince pie at the scene of the crime. Cops found Paul Ness, 42, sitting pie-faced in the staff kitchen of the British Heart Foundation store in Leith at the end of January.

Owners of a Belfast lingerie shop have complained that the smell from a Greggs store opening next door will ruin their stock. Mike Tremellen, director of Bravissimo, has written to planning officials to complain that the smell of pasties and pies will "permeate into our shop" and make their stock "u

The Supreme Court has unanimously granted a celebrity permission to appeal the discharge of an interim injunction regarding his sexual encounters and, by a majority, has allowed the appeal. This case considered whether the publication overseas of the identity of PJS and details of PJS’s sexual enc

Health and safety inspectors have failed in an appeal against a tribunal’s decision to cancel a prohibition notice issued to a North Sea oil company. The Inner House of the Court of Session refused the appeal, which raised a particularly important issue on the scope of an appeal to the employment

The Law Society of Scotland has said a British Bill of Rights, announced in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, should build on the Human Rights Act by providing for amendment of legislation incompatible with the Convention and by clarifying the application of rights to private bodies acting in a public

Research published today on the drivers and motivations that determine how people seek to resolve small claims disputes (up to £3,000) recommends a critical evaluation of small claims system, finding that people are generally unaware of civil procedure and costs involved. Focusing on Edinburgh and

Michael Matheson The proportion of people being reconvicted within 12 months has reached the lowest level in 17 years.

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DWF has appointed Caroline Colliston as a director in the firm’s tax team joining from corporate and commercial law firm Blackwood Partners LLP. Based in Edinburgh, she will support the firm’s private and public sector clients domestically and internationally with a focus on tax and share incent

The Law Society of Scotland has updated the guidance on client communication (Rule B4) and the new guidance will come into effect on 1 June 2016. It has made substantial changes as this is the first full review of the guidance since 2005, when it became mandatory for solicitors to issue terms of bus

Pictured (L-R): Hugo Allan; Tom Cullen 1st XI player; Daire Guilfoyle, VP for sports & societies for the Napier University Students association and Keith Flannigan, club president

McEwan Fraser Legal has launched its unique sponsorship of both Dundeeand Dundee United football clubs.

Internet access is being blacked out across Iraq during sixth grade exams in a bid to stop kids from cheating. Human rights groups are up in arms over government plans to disable access to the Internet across the whole country so that children can take tests without being able to look up answers on

A High Court judge has issued a note following the conviction of a couple who were was charged with causing death by dangerous driving while both were sitting in the driver’s seat, after one of the two accused claimed he was not “driving” the vehicle at the material time. Nathaniel Cooper and

Bella Sankey A coalition of more than 130 of the UK’s most prominent organisations – ranging from religious and professional bodies to law firms, unions, environmental charities and the families of terrorism victims – have publicly committed to oppose any attempt to repeal the Human Rights Act