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Keoghs associates Laura Baxendale and Daniel Tyler team up for this short podcast to discuss the first case in which the Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Act 2017 was considered substantively: "JXJ v The de la Salle Brothers".
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Australians can no longer access or share news on Facebook after the social media giant responded to proposed new legislation with sweeping restrictions on news content. Legislation which would establish a "mandatory code of conduct" for news media businesses and digital platforms was approved at th
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A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has rejected a defence pled by the Crown in response to an action for damages for wrongful and malicious prosecution brought by a man who was unsuccessfully prosecuted for fraud for his role in the acquisition of Rangers FC by Craig Whyte
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A Glasgow priest has launched legal action over church closures related to Covid-19. Canon Tom White whose St Alphonsus parish is in the heart of the city’s famous Barras has issued a pre-action letter to the Scottish government demanding it ends the blanket ban on places of worship.
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The Scottish FA has confirmed the appointment of Andrew Phillips as compliance officer. Mr Phillips replaces Clare Whyte and will begin his new role on 1 March. He joins from Jones Whyte Law, where he has been practising as a solicitor advocate in criminal and regulatory defence.
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Dear Editor I read with interest Iain Smith’s article and fully endorse his sentiments. Adverse childhood experiences and their effects on child development have been part of pre-service and in-service training in the children’s hearing system for some years now.
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The Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) has launched a consultation on whether expenses should be calculated and taxed with reference to the last published Law Society’s table of fees or whether it should update them. It says of the table: "It is very old and its use is not approve
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Dear Editor, Douglas Cusine is right in pointing out that there is no need to wait for the end of civil litigation in the so-called "Rangers malicious prosecution case" before setting up an inquiry into what caused the Crown in Scotland to prosecute maliciously for the first time in history. I pract
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The latest provisional statistics from the UK House Price Index show that the average price of a property in Scotland in December 2020 was £162,983, an increase of 8.4 per cent on December 2019. Compared with the previous month, house prices in Scotland decreased by 1.2 per cent between Novemb
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When I first embarked on my legal career, I never thought for a moment that the profession I so eagerly wanted to join and belong to would also be the profession in which I felt trapped. After a successful career spanning 20 years, its only once I left that I truly recognised my failings, as w
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In Scotland, vulnerable individuals who find themselves arrested and prosecuted for criminal offences may be eligible for support at various stages of the criminal process in order to allow them to participate effectively. The nature of, and entitlement to, such support depends on the stage in which
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A railroad engineer who deliberately defecated on company property and said it was a "present" for his boss has kept his job. Matthew Lebsack was fired by US rail giant Union Pacific after the incident in November 2016, but a federal appeals court has reluctantly reinstated him.
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A man who crashed his van into another vehicle in a leisure centre car park in Kirkcaldy has had his appeal by stated case refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court (Criminal Division). Marcus Wishart was convicted in Kirkcaldy Justice of the Peace Court of contravening sections 170(2), 17
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