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A would-be robber is in jail after police say he foiled his own robbery by accidentally pepper-spraying himself. The Register-Herald of West Virginia reports that 43-year-old Michael Kevin Meadows of Shady Spring was arrested last Wednesday for attempted robbery.

Sector specialists from Shepherd and Wedderburn will attend the largest global gathering of water industry specialists in Edinburgh later this month. Nine hundred experts, including government representative, lawyers, regulators, environmental engineers and economists will converge at the fifteenth

Legal, financial and property specialist Pagan Osborne has announced a three-year charity partnership with Alzheimer Scotland. The charity, which aims to improve quality of life for 90,000 people living with dementia in Scotland, is set to benefit from the company's fundraising efforts.

Maclay Murray & Spens (MMS)'s EU & Competition team has been shortlisted in the UK-wide Lawyer Awards 2015. MMS acted for global travel search site Skyscanner in a landmark appeal that successfully overturned an earlier decision by the Office of Fair Trading.

Solicitors will hear from Scottish government minister for community safety and legal affairs, Paul Wheelhouse MSP, at the Law Society of Scotland's legal aid conference today. Law Society of Scotland president Alistair Morris will today open the two-day legal aid conference, which takes place after

The Electoral Commission is in discussions with prosecutors over a potential breach in electoral campaigning law by the Better Together campaign group. The pro-Union organisation, which was forged as an alliance between Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats, failed to submit all of th

Fife Council is set to make a formal approach to the Scottish Parliament and ask for a review of the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013, which sets out a process for resolving disputes over high hedges. Councillors are concerned that the £385 cost of making a complaint is a barrier to householders who

The Faculty of Advocates remains sceptical of the Apologies (Scotland) Bill, stating that it supports the bill's aims but is unconvinced by the case for legislation. The bill, introduced by Margaret Mitchell MSP, is to encourage the use of apologies by providing that an apology does not amount to an

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Maclay Murray & Spens (MMS)'s private client and charities team has been accredited by the newly-created STEP Employer Training Scheme. MMS is the first firm in Scotland to achieve the recognition, accepting the 'Platinum Training Partner' award - the highest of three accreditation levels - for

Bruce Crawford MSP Draft legislation that would deliver new powers for the Scottish Parliament falls short of the recommendations made in the cross-party Smith Commission, MSPs have said.

A 37-year old woman who claimed to be a single mum to claim certain benefits was caught and taken to court for welfare fraud after the DWP checked her relationship status on Facebook. Denise was living with her partner Graeme and their children in Dundee, but told the authorities four years ago that

Nearly 200 judges are to take legal action against the UK government over “discriminatory and unlawful” amendments to their pensions. The judges are to fight changes that would end their pensions in a case that marks the climax of a battle between the judiciary and the government after amendment

Lord Neuberger Three of the world’s top judges are set to decide the fate of a group of barons and bishops charged with treason this summer, 800 years after their alleged crime – and people from across the country are being invited to apply to join the public gallery.

John Sturrock QC The proposals for a law to provide that an expression of apology does not amount to an admission of liability and is inadmissable as evidence, for the purposes of certain legal proceedings, has received a mixed response.