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A man wanted by police in Australia taunted them on Facebook when he asked if they could use a better mugshot.

Major trials concerning financial disputes worth more than £50 million will have their own court, or "list" under reforms meant to attract international litigants the Lord Chief Justice has said. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, said the specialist financial court would seal London's reputation as the cent

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Paul Pignatelli The Glasgow office of DWF has advised Capita plc, a provider of customer and business process management (BPM) and integrated professional support service solutions, on its acquisition of Barrachd Ltd, software solutions provider and one of IBM’s business analytics partners in the

Maureen Watt Regulation of private clinics carrying out dental and other healthcare services, including non-surgical cosmetic interventions will begin next year.

A businessman has been handed an 11-year ban from running a company after his firm went bust and ran up debts of over £43 million. The government's Insolvency Service began investigating former lawyer David Allen, 62, after his company, Work Legal-E, was liquidated in 2013.

Brian Crook Westwater Advocates is delighted to welcome Brian Crook who called to the bar today.

Stephen Donnelly Arnot Manderson Advocates has welcomed Stephen Donnelly to the stable following his admission to the Faculty of Advocates today.

Officials at the Home Office have accepted that a woman who has a Scottish mother; has lived in Scotland for nearly 30 years and who is married to a Scot is British. Crystal MacIver, 44, was threatened with deportation because of an administrative bungle made 28 years ago.

Lord Glennie A clay pigeon shot whose firearms certificates were taken from him by the police because of an internet post and who won his case at first instance because lawyers for the police failed to appear has had it remitted by a judge in the Court of Session.

A prisoner has been awarded £480,000 after medicine he was prescribed gave him an erection for six days – leaving him impotent. Rodney Cotton, 50, of Brooklyn, New York, said prison wardens ignored his pleas for help as he lay in solitary confinement.

Dr Azeem Ibrahim Prisoners in Scotland with mental health problems should not be jailed but should be given treatment according to a new report by a think tank.

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson MSP An urgent review by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) is to be undertaken into police call handling after officers failed to investigate a report of a crash until three days after it occurred.

A pensioner who was banned from driving for 10 years after he seriously injured two motorcyclists in a road traffic accident while driving himself to a hospital has failed in an appeal against his conviction. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the sheriff had correctly withdrawn the special defenc

Martin Darroch, chief executive of Harper Macleod Harper Macleod LLP has signed up to the "Scottish Business Pledge", the Scottish government’s voluntary code for businesses, as it unveils the results of a major investment in its brand.