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The remains of renowned Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí have been re-buried following their exhumation to test a paternity claim. Pilar Abel, a self-professed psychic in Catalonia, has claimed for over a decade to be the famous artist's daughter – but her claim has finally been disproved

Douglas Mill was the speaker at the first CPD event organised by the newly reformed Society of Solicitors of Orkney.

The family of a man who murdered his mother but remains executor of her estate has called for a change in the law. Ross Taggart, 33, from Dunfermline, strangled his mother, Carol, 54, in 2014 before trying to pawn some of her property.

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Holyrood’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee has unanimously backed the general principles of the Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) Bill. The bill pardons men convicted of same-sex sexual activity that no longer constitutes a crime, and offers to ‘disregard’ their crimina

Daradjeet Jagpal As the spectre of GDPR looms, Daradjeet Jagpal, legal consultant and director of Information Law Solutions, asks: is GDPR the Millennium Bug for law firms?’

Often mis-attributed to Bismark, the poet John Godfey Saxe is reputed to have said that “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made”. The authors of this book are both lawyers with a wealth of political experience, and this combination makes

New figures reveal that Scotland’s “Drambusters” have launched legal action more than 60 times to protect Scotch whisky against fakes, with Russia becoming a growing problem, The Herald reports.

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission Consumer Panel has published its response to the call for evidence from the independent review of legal regulation in Scotland.

French cheese-makers have been left outraged after a Canadian cheese was named the best "Camembert" in the world. L'Extra, produced near Montreal, was crowned best Camembert at the World Championship Cheese Contest, The Local reports.

There were 514 applications to the Solicitors Regulation Authority to open new law firms in 2017, underlining the health of the legal profession despite Brexit related uncertainty, according to accountants and business advisers Hazlewoods, which specialises in the legal profession. With 10,400 solic

A Scottish local authority which failed to provide an adequate plan to support an autistic child’s return to secondary school breached its duty not to discriminate on the grounds of disability. The Inner House of the Court of Session refused an appeal by Edinburgh City Council against an Additiona

Gill Grassie IP experts Robert Buchan and Gill Grassie (pictured) of Brodies LLP look at how Brexit has led to uncertainty about UK lawyers' future in the planned Unified Patent Court in this year's Scottish Legal News Annual Review.

A 41-year-old man has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work under a community payback order for illegally storing waste at a site in Perthshire. Alistair Roy admitted the offences at Perth Sheriff Court on 6 December 2016.

An Austrian official is to be given more than €300,000 after he was unfairly passed over for a job because he is male, The Local reports. Peter Franzmayr sued after failing to gain an internal promotion in the country’s transport ministry in 2011.