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Alex Neil Alex Neil has stood down from his post as Social Justice Secretary in order to concentrate on his constituency of Airdrie and Shotts.

No licence. No air gun. That’s the message to air weapon owners who will need certificates for their weapons when new laws come in to effect. The Scottish government has joined forces with animal charity Scottish SPCA to launch a campaign to raise awareness of the new air weapons legislation.

Dominic Grieve An independent report concluding that the repeal of the Human Rights Act is likely to breach the Good Friday Agreement was launched at Westminster yesterday.

Alasdair Robertson The Cayman Islands Law Society and the Caymanian Bar Association have endorsed the anti-corruption statement released by UK and Irish professional bodies including the Law Society of Scotland, the Law Society of England and Wales, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England

On Sunday 15 May, four members of Inksters Solicitors zip-lined across the Clyde raising £1,235 for CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people.

The Faculty of Advocates is supporting Mental Health Awareness Week with a working lunch to discuss "Wellbeing at the Bar". Trish McLellan from LawCare, the charity which runs a free helpline for legal professionals throughout the UK, will attend to look at stress and what can be done to manage it.

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

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.

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