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Sir Nigel Knowles DWF has announced Sir Nigel Knowles (pictured) as its new chairman, effective 1 September 2017. Sir Nigel takes over from Alan Benzie who served for 10 years.

A man who refused to be treated by an optician following the Manchester terrorist attack because she was not white has been rebuked by a sheriff, The Scotsman reports. Eric Greene, 58, from Carluke, Lanarkshire, went to Specsavers in Lanark where he told trainee optician, Sarah Kerr, who is of India

Sheriff Anwar A sheriff has published a Note that includes a letter to two children in a contact case in which the court held the pursuer (father) was entitled to indirect contact.

Aretha Franklin I was 18 when I went to Auschwitz. My school chum Eamonn Kelly and I got a train to Warsaw and then down to Krakow. 1975 – height of the Cold War. Mad, I know. How we were allowed to go remains a mystery to me.

Jennifer Skeoch Jennifer Skeoch takes a look at the implications of last week’s long-awaited judgment from the Supreme Court on Employment Tribunal fees.

Ten staff members at Thorntons Law LLP are taking part in a charity head shave in aid of Cancer Research UK early next month.

Gordon Jackson QC The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates has said it is "harder than ever before" for defence lawyers to secure acquittals for serious crimes.

Robert Sutherland Terra Firma advocate Robert Sutherland is set to trek to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro next year to raise money for Team Children 1st, Scotland’s National Children’s Charity, who help Scotland’s families to put children first, with practical advice and with support in difficul

A shopkeeper threatened with legal action after he called his shop “Singhsbury’s” has changed it — to “Morrisinghs”. Five years ago, Jel Singh Nagra, 42, was told he could be taken to court by Sainsbury’s, who said the name was too similar to theirs.

Michael Matheson A 10-year strategy aimed at ensuring Police Scotland is equipped to tackle new and emerging threats has been published.

Paul Masterton A Pinsent Masons associate is one of the new MPs entering Parliament for the Conservatives.

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A medical student who stabbed her boyfriend may be spared a prison term because of her “extraordinary talent”, a judge has said.In September last year, aspiring surgeon Lavinia Woodward, 24, a student at Oxford University, punched and attacked a man she had met on Tinder during a drink and drug

Stephen Gold As someone brought up with very little money, whose life has been enhanced beyond measure by education, news of further decline in the literacy and numeracy of Scotland’s children feels very personal to me. But at least social attitudes have much improved since I was a child.