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Jeremy Hutchinson QC, Lord Hutchinson of Lullington, has passed away at the age of 102. Lord Hutchinson was regarded as the greatest criminal barrister of his generation. He was junior defence counsel in the Lady Chatterley trial; defended the spy George Blake; model Christine Keeler and the drug de

A non-EU national may benefit from a right of residence in the Member State in which his EU citizen family member resided before she acquired the nationality of that Member State in addition to her nationality of origin, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. The court ruled th

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the independent body that deals with complaints about lawyers, has launched two new guides to help people working with a solicitor to write a will, or involved in an executry (carrying out the instructions in a will) avoid running into difficulties. T

Kevin Stewart A website which allows users to create tenancy agreements complying with new legislation has been welcomed by landlords.

A national UK Scrabble champion has been banned from the game and branded a cheater after admitting that he does not always hold the tile bag at shoulder height when drawing tiles in competitive games. Allan Simmons, who was crowned the UK's National Scrabble Champion in 2008, now carries a black ma

A suite of free courses on law in Scotland have been released by The Open University. The courses – The Scottish Parliament and law-making, Scottish courts and the law, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, and Law and change: Scottish legal heroes – come twenty years on from the historic vote f

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Fraser Gillies Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has joined one of the world’s largest multi-disciplinary

Scott Whyte (left) and Donald Wright

A lawyer who ruled in the Rangers tax case ordered the bulk of his £4 million fortune be used to help with the education of the people on a Hebridean island. Kenneth Mure QC willed millions of pounds to charity on his death last year at the age of 69. Mr Mure was a member of the three-person tribun

Some of you will be old enough to remember songs and poems like this from your primary days. Things like The Next Stop Is Kirkcaldy. Even as a kid, I never felt entirely comfortable with the Cooper one. Basically about wife beating. Strange. Anyway, what is all this you will be wondering. Cupar. Fif

Paul Mosson The Law Society of Scotland has appointed Paul Mosson (pictured) as its new executive director for member services.

Catherine Dyer Former Crown Office chief executive Catherine Dyer will head up an expert group on preventing sexual offending involving young people.

Clear lines of accountability are “absolutely essential” to avoid major IT failures in the future, a Holyrood committee has warned today. In a letter to the Scottish government, the Public Audit and Post-Legislative Scrutiny Committee said there was some confusion over who is ultimately responsi