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Award-winning advice agencies are working in collaboration to set up a pro bono project that will help vulnerable children secure citizenship rights. Kids In Need of Defence (KIND) UK will be modelled on a similar American scheme, co-founded by UN refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie-Pitt, an

Rob Marrs The Law Society of Scotland is running a series of free member events on Wednesday 22 June on the topic of "returning to work".

Four new members have joined three familiar figures as Glasgow and Fife members on the Law Society of Scotland Council. Gwen Haggerty, from BSW Solicitors in Dunfermline will join Susan Williams, who has been a council member for three years, to represent their Cupar, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy const

The University of Dundee has the top-rated law course in Scotland, according to the Guardian University Guide 2017, published this week.

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An American man who correctly guessed the password for an electronic message board is facing a felony charge after changing it to read "Drive Crazy Yall". Geoffrey Eltgroth, 26, was arrested after motorists noticed a message board warning of road construction had been altered.

The Justice Minister Michael Matheson has said the events which unfolded at the Scottish Cup final at the weekend “underline” that it is essential to keep the current ban on alcohol at football grounds. His comments came after Police Scotland revealed that they made 14 arrests linked with the g

Aileen Campbell Alcohol sales figures published today strengthen the case for minimum unit pricing according to the public health minister, Aileen Campbell.

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A man found guilty of charges of wilful fire-raising who claimed there was “insufficient evidence” of identification of him as the perpetrator of the offences has failed in an appeal against conviction and sentence. The Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal after upholding a sheriff’s decis

Over a million British expats have been denied the right to vote in the EU referendum following a ruling of the Supreme Court that people who have lived outside of the UK for more than 15 years cannot vote on June 23. Around 1-2 million expats would have been allowed to cast their vote to determine

Michael Matheson A new justice system shake up may see offenders serving sentences out on the streets rather than behind bars, The Herald reports.

In a major report published today the House of Lords’Constitution Committee has warned that successive UK governments have taken the union between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales for granted, without giving proper consideration to the cumulative impact of devolution on the UK as a wh

The EU trade mark representing the shape of a Rubik’s Cube must be declared invalid on the basis it covers the generic function of the product and could therefore frustrate competition according to an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union. At the request of Seven Towns, a

The total number of subscribers to Scottish Legal News has broken through the 11,000 mark.