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Border by Kapka Kassabova This is a magical book and one of the very, very few to open up the wild and forgotten lands of ancient Thrace that straddle that corner of Europe where Turkey meets Bulgaria and Greece.

Darren Murdoch By Darren Murdoch, trainee solicitor, Waddell & Mackintosh Solicitors, Troon.

Andy Wightman A £750,000 defamation claim against Green MSP Andy Wightman has been condemned by freedom of speech campaigners.

A worker who was seeking damages from his ex-employers after being injured in an accident at work is now suing his former solicitors for loss caused to him over their failure to raise an action in time. Christopher Brits raised an action against Kilcoyne and Co after they missed the three-year time

Brenda Mitchell This year’s SLN Annual Review profiles PI lawyer and motorcycle expert Brenda Mitchell who established the UK’s first legal practice devoted to helping her fellow motorcyclists.

Angela Grahame QC In July 1995, one week after I called to the bar, I went to the High Court in Airdrie to be the Crown junior in a two-week sitting. The Advocate Depute had a separate room, and one morning a very senior criminal silk came along to negotiate a plea for his client. As was the role of

A former prisoner who claimed that the policy of hand-cuffing him when he was escorted from jail to hospital for medical appointments while he was serving his sentence breached his human rights has had a damages claim dismissed. Easdale Campbell, who was convicted of attempted murder in 1996, argued

Graham Ogilvy (pictured) eisits Bologna’s famed law school in troubling times.ry The waiter who plonked a carafe of cheap Sangiovese down on our table at the little restaurant off Bologna’s Via Malcontenti spoke flawless English.

The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) has announced Dame Anne Begg DBE (pictured right) as a patron and the promotion of third-year law student Sophie Mills to the position of student director. Miss Mills becomes the project’s seventh student director, succeeding Louise Sloan who is graduating and intend

A lecturer who was removed from his position as a board member of Glasgow Clyde College and consequently disqualified for life from being a member of other boards has failed in a legal challenge to the legislative order removing almost the entire board from office for “mismanagement”. A judge in

Graham Ogilvy

Willie McIntyre You just know that whoever drafted the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s new Code of Conduct for Criminal Practitioners couldn’t give you directions to the nearest court, far less have they ever appeared in one.

Karyn McCluskey Community Justice Scotland chief executive, Karyn McCluskey, gives her thoughts following the official launch of the new national body.

Douglas Mill I've been doing some very simple market research as I go about doing Faculty visits. An A4 page asking contributors to list the three things in practice which concern them most. I get a very high rate of return, so thank you good burghers of Banff, Stranraer, Paisley, Stirling et al.

Emma Guthrie Emma Guthrie spends most of her days as a solicitor in Shepherd and Wedderburn’s property and infrastructure team. However, for 18 days in March Emma was also in New York as a delegate at the 61st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), attending on behalf of the Wor