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Shona Robison Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol will come into force on 1 May 2018.

Lady Paton A man who was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment after being found guilty of raping a girl and using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards the complainer’s older sister has had an appeal against his conviction and sentence refused.

Academically gifted students from less advantaged backgrounds in Scotland will have their aspirations of a legal education realised after Dickson Minto agreed to donate £10,000 to the Lawscot Foundation. As platinum sponsor, the Edinburgh based firm will in essence, fund a Lawscot Foundation bursar

International lawyers and experts have suggested Brexit is to blame for the failure of a British judge to be elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the first time. Leading legal figures told The Brief that politics had at least partly contributed to Sir Christopher Greenwood's failu

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Pictured (L-R): Anne-Marie Chalmers, David Coutts and Janice Jones

Nicholas Scullion Scullion LAW has expanded with a third office in the West End of Glasgow.

Home Office officials have said they may have to hire Polish and other Eastern European workers to help register EU nationals after Brexit. Immigration lawyers told The Guardian that visa and immigration officials had privately admitted at a recent conference that they were struggling to entice enou

Professor Helen Fenwick (pictured right) and Dr Andy Hayward of Durham Law School provide a critical analysis of the European Court of Human Rights’ judgment in Ratzenböck and Seydl v Austria and its implications for Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, a British couple seeking legal recognition

The death has been announced of Douglas Risk QC, former Sheriff Principal of Grampian, Highland and Islands. He was 76. Mr Risk was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1966, and was appointed a sheriff in 1977, serving in Lothian and Borders before moving to Grampian, Highland and Islands.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has convicted Ratko Mladić of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war. The charges relate to crimes committed by Serb forces during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992–1995, wh

Tim Taylor Tim Taylor, a second year trainee solicitor at Hastings Legal, explains why widening your network can benefit your career and why he set up Scottish Borders Young Professionals (SBYP).

Allan McDougall Solicitors has announced the immediate appointment of two new partners in its litigation team. Jackie Raitt (pictured right), who has been with the firm 14 years, is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in personal injury law.

Jon Venables One of the boys convicted of the murder of toddler James Bulger has been imprisoned again after being found with child abuse images for a second time.

A man who pled guilty to assault at a trial diet having previously offered to plead has successfully appealed against the sentence imposed after challenging the level of discount afforded by the sentencing sheriff. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ruled that the sheriff “misdirecte