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A severely disabled man is going to the Court of Session in Edinburgh today in a bid to clarify the Scottish legal position regarding assisted suicide. With the help of his solicitors at Patrick Campbell and Co., Gordon Ross, 66, is calling upon the Lord Advocate to issue guidance setting out whethe

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MSPs yesterday rejected the Assisted Suicide Scotland Bill by 82 to 36 votes after a debate in the Scottish Parliament. Had it passed, the bill would have allowed the terminally ill to seek the help of a doctor in ending their life.

New laws to establish a system for opting out of organ donation could be considered next year. Labour MSP Anne McTaggart put her Transplantation (Authorisation of Removal of Organs) Scotland Bill before the Parliament yesterday.

Andy Coulson Following the collapse of former News of the World editor and convicted phone hacker Andy Coulson's perjury trial at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, prosecutors defended their decision to prosecute the Prime Minister's former director of communications, saying they had no reason

An adoption order granted by a court in Ethiopia is thought to be the first foreign adoption order to been recognised and registered at common law in Scotland. A married man who was granted adoption of the child of his wife’s previous marriage before the couple relocated to Scotland has had the ad

  Lord Carloway, the Lord Justice-Clerk (far left) and Lord Keen of Elie QC (far right)

Alex Salmond Alex Salmond has criticised “clever-Dick” lawyers and sheriffs, whom he refers to as “daft toffs”, for opposing legislation to tackle sectarianism at football matches that he brought in during his tenure as First Minister.

A chance discovery of a centuries-old Scottish court case about a child forced to work as a stage attraction, “the tumbling lassie”, has inspired a group of advocates to raise cash to help fight modern-day slavery. The girl had been “bought” from her mother and used by a travelling showman a

A man has appeared in court charged under an ancient law for which the penalty is death. Graeme Bryden, 27, was accused of "hamesucken" after he allegedly attacked and robbed a 93-year-old woman in her home.

If Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC (pictured) was looking for variety and a change of scenery in her job, she has certainly found it. Sheriff Drummond, based in Tayside, Central and Fife, will be adding to her shrieval duties with her new appointment as Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal in the Terr

Yvonne Brady The number of Scottish corporate insolvencies in the first quarter of the year is 21.2 per cent lower than over the same time last year, according to newAccountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) data.

Lord Woolman The liquidator of a multi-million pound hedge fund who raised an action against the company’s solicitors alleging that the firm “breached its fiduciary duties” to its client has failed in a bid to have three of the firm’s new partners included as defenders in the case.

Gordon Keyden In the wake of sundry mergers, the demise of Tods Murray and, most recently, McClure Naismith, the announcement that two firms in rude health, Simpson & Marwick and Clyde & Co, will be merging is good news for the Scottish legal market as Clyde & Co gains the smaller firm's

Margaret Mitchell Holyrood's justice committee has rejected a bid to amend the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill to protect the personal information of sexual assault and rape survivors.