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Members of the Faculty of Advocates and staff have raised £301 at a book sale in aid of the Scottish Book Trust. The sale was organised by Jane Condie, of the Advocates Library, as part of Book Week Scotland. Scores of paperbacks and hardbacks were donated, and found their way to new owners fo

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DWF Scotland's head of general insurance Andrew Lothian has been appointed as the Scottish regional representative of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL), succeeding Elena Fry, partner at Brodies LLP. FOIL provides a forum for the exchange of information between lawyers acting for insurance c

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A woman who emerged from the settlements of one of Africa’s largest cities to help in the fight to rewrite her country’s constitution has been named the first winner of the Scottish Bar International Human Rights Award. Salome Nduta, 47, from Nairobi, Kenya, “stood out from the cro

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Harper Macleod has announced it is extending its support for Scottish EDGE, the funding competition for entrepreneurs which will hold its latest final this week, for another year. Harper Macleod has also become the first organisation outwith past EDGE winners to sign the EDGE Pledge – a commit

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Judgment in the Scottish Brexit bill case will be handed down by the Supreme Court on Thursday 13 December 2018. On 17 April 2018, the UK government's law officers, the Attorney General and the Advocate General for Scotland, referred EU exit legislation passed in the Scottish Parliament (the UK

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Two new members have been appointed to fill vacant positions on the Scottish Sentencing Council. Susan Fallone has been appointed as a judicial member, replacing Gillian Thomson. Ms Fallone has been a Justice of the Peace in Edinburgh since 2013. She currently works as a civil litigation solici

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Lady Paton has been appointed as chair of the Scottish Law Commission, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced. The appointment will be for five years and will run from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2023.

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Scottish Legal News attracted 614 new readers last year, finishing 2018 with 12,212 subscribers. Twitter followers increased by around the same number to finish the year at 9,310. But the largest increase came in traffic to our new mobile-friendly website with monthly individual user figures up by a

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Patent applications originating from Scotland continue to grow, according to the latest data released by the European Patent Office (EPO). New figures show that Scottish businesses and inventors filed 299 applications last year – representing a rise of almost seven per cent on the previous yea

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