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Four final year law students from the University of Dundee, Evana Ferguson, David Durie, Daniel Breerton and Asa Jordan, competed in the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition at the International Court in Justice in May this year.

Just Employment Law has signed a contract to remain as Partick Thistle FC’s principal sponsor for a third consecutive season.

A man who stole a human skull and kept it for more than a year has been jailed for four months. Lucas Dawe, 20, found the skull exposed within a mausoleum-style tomb in an Anglican cemetery.

The Court of Appeal in England & Wales has handed down its judgment in the matter of Howard Kennedy v The National Trust for Scotland [2019] EWCA Civ 648, on appeal from the decision of Sir David Eady, sitting as a judge of the High Court on the Queen's Bench Division Media and Communications Li

Just Employment Law has aided the fight against pancreatic cancer by raising over £81,000 at its Summer Ball held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow on Saturday 15 June.

More prisoners in England and Wales will have the opportunity to access employment and training following an expansion of the release on temporary license (ROTL) scheme. Offenders in open and women's prisons will now be eligible for paid work as soon as they have passed a "tough" risk assessment.

A member of the Faculty of Advocates has hit a six in the world of cricket umpiring. David McLean has been appointed to the ICC Development Panel of International Umpires. He becomes one of three Scotland representatives on the panel.

The probation service in England and Wales is to be brought back into the public sector after a watchdog highlighted serious failings in the partly-privatised system. In a report published in March, the National Audit Office (NAO) said problems with the major reforms implemented in 2014 had cost tax

Iain Mitchell QC clears some of the confusion surrounding artificial intelligence ahead of the AI Beyond the Hype event in Edinburgh this month. In October, 2017, Saudi Arabia conferred citizenship on Sophia. The puzzling thing is that Sophia is a robot, even more human-looking than the archety

Holly Morrison has joined Duncan & McConnell Solicitors in Dundee as a trainee. Ms Morrison holds a dual qualifying LLB from the University of Dundee, where she also obtained her Diploma in Legal Practice.

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has started work to replace the roof and upgrade the façade of Peterhead Sheriff and Justice of the Peace Court.

The European Parliament will retain an office in Scotland following Brexit, BBC Scotland reports. MEPs said the office would advise EU citizens living in Scotland and Scottish organisations seeking to maintain links with the EU.

Eighteen members of the Faculty of Advocates have gone through intensive training and emerged as Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. The group used a specially-designed course at Aberdeen University for the first steps on to the platform of international arbitration.Those now proudly

The UK Supreme Court will rule next week on whether the UK Government acted unlawfully by denying a public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Mr Finucane was shot and killed in his home on 12 February 1989 by loyalist paramilitaries. In 2012, then Prime Minister David Ca

The son of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has said his father was killed to "silence other lawyers", The Irish News reports. John Finucane, himself a lawyer with Belfast-based Finucane Toner Solicitors, spoke at an event at St Mary's University College in west Belfast on Saturday to ma