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Team EU & Competition: Christopher Murray, Alexandra Orr, Louise McKee, Holly Brannan & Mel Marshall

Jeremy Wright QC Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC will set out the legal basis for pre-emptive military strikes against overseas terror targets in a speech tonight.

Kaley Crossthwaite The total value of reported fraud in 2016 hit a five-year high, increasing 31.5 per cent to £2 billion, according to new analysis by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP.

Paisley Sheriff Court (Photo credit: Google Street View) A man who jokingly asked his fellow jurors to convict the accused in a trial so they could get home for Christmas has been fined £400, The Herald reports.

Anne Begg Statistics published by property experts show that 779 properties sold for a total of just under £134 million in Perthshire last year.

The European Commission has proposed legislation to bring rules for all electronic communication providers in line with the ePrivacy Directive and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A key proposal in the Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications extends privacy rules to ne

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Douglas Strang A recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has shed light on the way that tribunals should interpret the test for disability discrimination, explains Douglas Strang.

Plans to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and replace it with a “British Bill of Rights” were rejected by the Scottish Parliament last night after MSPs voted 93-30 in favour of the Scottish government’s motion calling on the UK government not to withdraw from “internatio

A homeowner who claimed that a Scottish local authority acted beyond its powers in imposing a condition that a property owner required to pay their share of the cost of repairs to a tenement by the time the final account for the works was issued or be liable for the full costs has had his legal chal

John Scott QC The principles determining when police can use stop and search powers have been set out in a code of practice.

Firefighters had to be called in to help a police officer after they handcuffed someone — themselves.

Stuart Murray Shoosmiths has advised on the sale of Shetland based seafood producer, SI Seafarms Limited.

Heather McKendrick A Law Society of Scotland education programme for pupils at Scottish schools in disadvantaged areas is up for a prestigious European award.