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Legislation is to be brought forward this year requiring abattoirs to install CCTV in all areas where live animals are present. The proposal was backed by the vast majority of respondents to a recent consultation carried out by the Scottish government. 

An immigration ‘cliff edge’ would be a real problem for the many sectors which currently rely on large numbers of EU migrant workers. Transitional arrangements are essential to ensure ‘business as usual’ is possible for many of our clients post-Brexit, writes Steven Dunn 

Magistrates are calling for their retirement age to be raised from 70 to 75 to stem the judicial recruitment crisis, The Times reports. Over the past 10 years, the number of magistrates has halved from roughly 15,000.

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A motorist was arrested on New Year's Day after a roadside drug test showed a positive result – for all five detectable drugs. The 31-year-old man showed a positive result for the ingestion of cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, cannabis and amphetamines.

Donald Findlay QC has narrated an audio book on the life of Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel, The Herald reports. Manuel was executed in 1958 at the age of 31 following one of the most famous trials in Scottish legal history and a killing spree that saw at least eight people die.

Magic Circle firms have overtaken US firms in the UK league table for mergers and acquisitions, The Times reports. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, with 60 deals worth $144.4 billion over the past year, led the latest Mergermarket league table compiled for Legal Week, followed by Slaughter and May, H

A man found guilty of rape who claimed that the evidence of the complainer’s distress, which was exhibited more than a day after the incident, was “too remote” to corroborate her account of lack of consent because she did not show any signs of distress in the intervening period has

Commercial litigation specialist Naomi Pryde has joined DWF from Dentons UKMEA LLP. Ms Pryde has particular experience in complex contract disputes, property litigations and the recovery of assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and her work spans English, Scottish and international market

A new exhibition will give an insight into the history of some of Scotland's most famous criminals, the Press and Journal reports. Mugshots from the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives dating from the nineteenth century will be displayed as part of the crime writing festival Granite Noir.

Legislation will be introduced this year to close potential loopholes in the law protecting foxes and other wild mammals.   Delivering a statement to Parliament on improving animal welfare, rural affairs minister Mairi Gougeon announced her intention to bring forward a bill that will imple

President of the Supreme Court Lady Hale has said in a rare political comment that austerity has made life more difficult for the poor. In a speech delivered last month at the Isle of Man Law Society, but only published yesterday, the judge said: “While some families are fighting for legal rec

Glasgow firm Miller Samuel Hill Brown LLP (MSHB) has appointed Marie Macdonald as its new chairman, succeeding founding partner, Michael Samuel, who continues as a consultant. Ms Macdonald becomes the first woman to chair MSHB, one of Scotland’s longest-established legal practices.

The Welsh government has been accused by opposition parties of breaching devolution legislation by appointing its independent legal adviser as its Brexit minster. Jeremy Miles, Assembly Member for Neath, will continue in the role of Counsel General for Wales, which he has held since November 2017, a

Advocate General Szpunar proposes that the Court of Justice of the European Union should limit the scope of the dereferencing that search engine operators are required to carry out to the EU. By decision of 21 May 2015, the President of the French Commission nationale de l’informatique et des