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Mike Ashley has been ordered to pay the expenses of the Scottish Football Association and Dave King after his petition for judicial review of a decision of football’s governing body to approve the Rangers chairman as a “fit and proper person” to hold the position of director of Rangers Interna

The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed the appeal of an unfairly dismissed fingerprint officer involved in the McKie scandal, finding that the original Employment Tribunal’s (ET) interpretation of the relevant legislation leading to a reinstatement order was sound. Lord Hodge, with whom Lady Ha

The Scottish Episcopal Church is set to become the first church in the UK to allow its clergy to conduct same-sex church weddings, The Times reports. Scotland's third-largest church will take a vote on its position on Thursday 9 June.

Sir Tom Hunter The Hunter Foundation has teamed up with some of the UK’s leading European scholars to produce a free ebook to answer voters’ questions before the EU referendum on 23 June.

The Hillsborough inquest, the longest in British legal history, has concluded that 96 football fans who were crushed to death in 1989 were unlawfully killed. The jury answered 14 questions about how people died at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Chinese civil servants have been baffled by colourful propaganda comics urging them to beware of handsome foreigners. A 16-panel comic strip displayed in posters across Beijing follows a young female civil servant, Xiao Li, who is tricked into handing secret files to a red-haired foreigner, David. T

Footballer Ched Evans, who was jailed for rape in 2012 has had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal – but will face a fresh trial. Mr Evans, 27, was imprisoned for the rape of a woman, 19, at a hotel near Rhyl, Denbighshire and was released in October 2014 after serving half of a five yea

A founder of the law firm at the centre of revelations into the offshore wealth of world leaders, criminals and others – disclosed in a cache of 11.5 million documents – has said the firm was hacked. Ramon Fonseca, of Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, has lodged a criminal complaint with prosecut

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A man found guilty of assaulting and robbing a homeless person who claimed that the sheriff erred in repelling a “no case to answer” submission and that the sheriff “misdirected” the jury has failed in an appeal against conviction. The Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal after ruling th

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Fergus Ewing The Law Society of Scotland and Faculty of Advocates have backed energy minister Fergus Ewing’s calls this week on the UK government to clearly state where theOil and Gas Authority’s appeals process would be held.

Gordon MacRae Humanists have launched an education campaign called Enlighten Up, calling on the Scottish government to stop allowing unelected religious representatives to sit on council education committees.

Michael Gove The English Justice Secretary Michael Gove has claimed the UK’s renegotiation deal with the EU is not yet legally binding.

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