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A life-saving nasal inhaler that can reverse the effects of an opiod overdose is being given to men leaving jail. Prisoners at Barlinnie are being given the device and training on how to use it before being released as this is a time when people are vulnerable to overdosing.

When 12 ships from the Crimean port of Kaffa docked at Messina, Sicily, in October 1347 they carried more than onward consignments of exotic articles from the ancient oriental silk route. They also brought the bacterium versinia pestis. This had been passed from rodents and fleas to the ships’

Homebuyers are being warned about a spike in scams which have seen victims defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Law Society of England and Wales has joined forces with the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) and Action Fraud to issue flyers warning of the risk of payment diversion

The 20th annual Pro Bono Week will take place from 1 to 5 November 2021, offering an opportunity to recognise and support the voluntary contribution made by the legal profession across the UK in giving free legal help to those in need.  This milestone anniversary will be a pivotal moment to loo

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A group of schoolkids are suing their local schools over an allegedly discriminatory dress code requiring boys to have short hair. Seven pupils in Magnolia, Texas have launched a lawsuit against their school district with support from the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.

The operators of a popular Glasgow bar have successfully challenged a decision of the City of Glasgow Licensing Board not to grant them seven consecutively running occasional licences for a pop-up bar in Glasgow’s Merchant City. Keasim Ltd, the operators of Malones bar in Sauchiehall Lane, bro

A ruling by Lady Carmichael in the Outer House yesterday confirms that all previous licensed killings of beavers authorised by the Scottish government’s nature agency, NatureScot, have been unlawful and have been revoked. The ruling confirms that from now on NatureScot must set out openly and

Consumers have been advised to be alert as a sinister new scam purporting to be from Edinburgh Sheriff Court circulates Scotland. People are being contacted by bots which spoof what seems to be an official phone number and demand outstanding payments on fines in a bid to secure personal financial in

Financial results for Gillespie Macandrew confirm the business delivered another strong year overall despite the disruption caused by the pandemic. Revenue for the year ending 28 February 2021 was £13.5m (2020 - £14.4m), having been adversely affected in the initial few months of lockdow

Aberdein Considine has made a number of senior appointments to its lender services practice group (LSPG) including the hire of a banking and compliance specialist. George McNaughton has joined the firm as the head of compliance for the firm's LSPG following a 30 year career in banking and finance.

The backlog of cases in the criminal courts in England and Wales is likely to be a pervasive issue for several years, severely affecting all court users, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO). The pandemic significantly affected the work of the criminal justice system, requiring e

Terra Firma Chambers has retained its Band 1 rankings for Planning and Environmental Law, Agriculture & Rural Affairs and Tax in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners UK Legal Directory with additional rankings this year for Private Client and Real Estate Litigation. It is also, once again

Axiom is delighted to be ranked band 1 set in 13 practice areas in the recent Chambers UK. Individual members feature prominently with 126 rankings amongst the membership and its core practice areas. In public and administrative law, it is noted that Axiom Advocates possesses numerous prominent publ

Ampersand has once again received top tier rankings across a number of areas of practice in the latest published guide to the legal profession, Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2022. Ampersand received 68 listings across 17 areas of practice, ranking as top tier (band 1) in Clinical Negligence and