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Mooters from around the world will descend on Edinburgh Law School on 11 and 12 March for the 6th Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Pre-Moot – a competition that combines international commercial arbitration with substantive law on international sale of goods.
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The owner of The Willow Tea Rooms has won a trademark dispute over the use of the name, The Herald reports. The tea room was previously housed in a building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and is a Glasgow landmark.
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Mike Dailly Solicitor advocate Mike Dailly, a former Labour campaigner, has defected to the SNP, citing fears the Conservatives will be in government for a generation.
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The immigration law team at Thorntons hosted a Chinese New Year celebration at its Edinburgh office, aimed at strengthening Scotland’s ties with China.
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Angela Constance The Child Poverty (Scotland) Bill has been published today and will see Scotland become the only part of the UK with statutory targets in a bid to reduce the number of children experiencing the damaging effects of poverty by 2030.
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Lord Carloway Distribution of the Scottish Legal News Annual Review 2017 is now underway and we will be previewing articles appearing in this year’s edition in the coming days.
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Views are being sought on how electronic tagging should be expanded – including its use in monitoring alcohol consumption and voluntary schemes for persistent offenders, with a view to introducing new legislation, the Scottish government has said.The expansion could see tagging used as a condition
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Eilidh Wiseman Following publication of a paper by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) entitled A New Model for Summary Criminal Court Procedure, Eilidh Wiseman, president of the Law Society of Scotland, welcomed the proposals, saying they could “change the face of summary court pract
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A consultant cardiac surgeon who disputed a sheriff’s fatal accident inquiry finding over a “reasonable precaution” which the doctor could have taken whereby the death might have been avoided has had his legal challenge against the determination dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session refus
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Paula Chan In the wake of International Women’s Day urging us to be bold for change, Paula Chan analyses workplace hot topics featuring on her agenda for change on IWD 2017.
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Caroline Gardner A project to build a national IT system for Police Scotland followed good practice in its early stages but ultimately collapsed due to a "damaging loss of trust" between those involved and fundamental disagreements about what the programme needed to deliver, according to an auditor
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Martin Sloan Martin Sloan explains why data risk compliance should be at the top of the boardroom agenda.
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Plans from the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) to increase its annual levy by eight times the rate of inflation have caused unprecedented “anger and frustration” within the legal profession, the Law Society of Scotland said today. In its detailed response to the SLCC’s draft budget
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Fergus Ewing Crofters have elected six new commissioners to serve on the Crofting Commission Board where they will support the crofting system for current and future generations.
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Pupils from schools in Dundee, Glasgow and St Andrews have earned their places in the final of the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament, having pitted their wits against schools across the country.Just four of the original 128 teams that entered the Law Society’s national debating tournament,
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