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Dr Eddy Wifa and Dr Mitchell Lennan have both been appointed as co-directors of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law (AUCEL). Dr Wifa is a senior lecturer (energy law) at the School of Law, which he joined in 2020 following the completion of his PhD in Marine Renewable Energy Health a
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Elon Musk's social media platform X has been fined €120 million by the European Commission for breaches of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), including over its paid "blue checkmark" system. Originally introduced to verify the identity of high-profile users such as celebrities and journalists,
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The Scottish Law Agents’ Society has reacted with dismay to the decision by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal to reduce the standard of proof it applies from beyond reasonable doubt to a balance of probabilities. Andrew Stevenson, its secretary, explains why. This decision amo
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Govan Law Centre (GLC) has raised judicial review proceedings in the Court of Session against Tayside Health Board over its failure to provide medical assessments and treatments for adults with suspected Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). GLC's client lives in Perth and Kinross where n
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A woman who attacked a 97-year-old man in his home and caused injuries from which he later died has been jailed for more than six years. William Lambie suffered a fractured thigh after Tandy Swinton, 44, assaulted him in his Dundee flat while demanding money. He underwent surgery in hospital but die
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A mother whose daughter who suffered a brain injury during labour resulting in cerebral palsy has successfully established liability on the part of her health board after a lord ordinary found that an ultrasound ought to have been ordered after a measurement of the Symphysis-Fundal Height on the bab
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The Law Society of Scotland has joined a new legal aid Fee Review Mechanism Group to help push for changes that ensure the system’s long-term viability. Law Society president, Patricia Thom, attended the first meeting of the new group on Wednesday, alongside Ian Moir, co-convener of the societ
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In memory of Neil Beynon, advocate, who died at the end of October, Ross Macfarlane KC has arranged a memorial mass for Mr Beynon at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh – to which all friends, colleagues and instructing agents are invited. The mass will be held on Saturday 13 Decem
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A national review of the evidence on the operation of grooming gangs in Scotland has been announced by the Scottish government.
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A retired Fornethy House teacher who systematically abused vulnerable young children in her care over the course of 15 years has been sentenced. Patricia Robertson, now known as Baxter, abused girls aged five to 12 while volunteering and later working at the residential school in Angus.
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The Scottish Sentencing Council’s new sentencing guidelines on rape offences have been approved by the High Court. The two new guidelines, which cover offences of rape and rape of a young child under the age of 13, were approved at a hearing of the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday. They will
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A judge in the English High Court has set aside a 2014 judgment of the Chancery Division after the claimants, a family of Scottish dairy farmers, raised an action alleging that the decision in favour of the defendants, which upheld the appointment of the second defendant as receiver in relation to a
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