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Margaret Taylor interviews Digby Brown's Chris Stewart, whose team was last year named Catastrophic Injury Team of the Year at the 2020 Personal Injury Awards. As head of Digby Brown’s catastrophic injury department, Chris Stewart represents people whose lives have been complete
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Authorities south of the border are to follow Scotland's lead and open remote jury centres. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will seek a change in the law to allow courts to use venues to host remote jury centres.
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A man who bundled himself into a wooden crate and tried to mail himself from Australia to Britain has made a public appeal to help track down his accomplices. Back in 1965, Welsh man Brian Robson, now 75, enlisted the help of Irish friends John and Paul in a scheme to return home cheaply.
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A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has granted an interdict against a North Lanarkshire man preventing him from copying UK TV programmes and distributing them to internet users through various social platforms. Sky UK Ltd alleged that Alex Cherrie had infringed its cop
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Prosecutors have no licence to "police a free press in a free country", a group of former lawyers who have held high office claim. Writing in Scottish Legal News today, the group, which calls itself Quis? – Latin for 'who' – argues that the Crown Office abused the contempt of court mecha
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Scottish prisons are substantially overcrowded relative to most of Europe, new figures show. The Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020, showed that, as of 31 January 2020, there were 8,056 inmates and 7,725 prison spaces in Scotland – or 104.3 inmates
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Writing in Scottish Legal News today, Quis? – a group of senior retired lawyers who have held high office in Scotland – express concerns over the Crown Office's behaviour during the Salmond inquiry and call for reform to prevent prosecutors from overstepping their role. Contemp
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Lady Justice Rose will be sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court in a closed event next Tuesday. Only a small number of guests will be allowed to attend the ceremony in person, but it will also be streamed live from the UKSC website.
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The Tenant Farming Commissioner (TFC) has published a guide to Relinquishment and Assignation (R&A). Kate McLeish explains the details. The R&A measure allows secure agricultural tenants to offer to relinquish their tenancy to the landlord in exchange for statutory compensation. If the landl
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Jae Fassam, partner at law firm CMS, discusses the increasing role of Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) in Scottish businesses. As Scotland recovers from COVID-19 and businesses adjust to a new, post-Brexit landscape, rebuilding the economy in a sustainable manner will be the core focus over the
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The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is hosting an event on networking. This session will run through the science behind networking (including online), and guide participants through creating a practical strategy to achieving the most from networking.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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Police have seized luxury cars, villas, cash and shares from a ring of lottery workers who allegedly used their positions to reap millions of euros. An IT worker at Lottomatica, Italy's national lottery, allegedly developed software to identify which packets of scratch cards had a winner and which s
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A petition by the BBC challenging the restrictions placed upon the reporting of an Employment Tribunal claim worth over £2 million against the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has been refused by the Outer House of the Court of Session. The chair of the SCAI, Lady Smith, who took ov
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