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The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has made an order certifying a £1 billion legal claim against Google on behalf of UK app developers that have allegedly been overcharged by Google for using its Play Store. The case can now proceed to trial, with thousands of businesses poised to receive c

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Grantown-on-Spey & Vicinity Community Council has been successful in opposition to an application made by Highland Council at Inverness Sheriff Court to have the court approve a scheme which would have allowed the council to apply compulsory charges for community events held on The Square, Grant

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A local newspaper has successfully defended a lawsuit brought by a father who complained that it had failed to cover his son's high school basketball games. Vermont man Robert Lafayette sued the Burlington Free Press and two of its journalists, alleging that its coverage of high school sports was no

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A new book takes a look at the intellectual life of the late Neil MacCormick, a towering figure in legal philosophy. Professor MacCormick (1941–2009) was one of the twentieth century's most important legal philosophers and one of Scotland's most influential public intellectuals.

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Ahead of a members’ business debate at Holyrood, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has urged John Swinney to grant the Fornethy House abuse survivors access to the Redress compensation scheme. The Scottish government’s Redress Scheme pays out up to £100,000 an

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Peter Krykant, the harm reduction campaigner who paved the way for the establishment of the UK's first safer drug consumption facility, has suddenly died at the age of 48. Mr Krykant made headlines around the world when he refitted a van – and later an old ambulance – into a mobile "over

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The number of families estates in Edinburgh and Glasgow subject to inheritance tax (IHT) is set to rise sharply by the end of 2026/27, according to a new report by Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie and Irwin Mitchell. The findings are based on a freedom of information request to HMRC and form part of

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A Twix advert has been banned in the UK for encouraging dangerous driving. The minute-long advert shows a race between two cars, one of which tumbles down a cliff and lands upside down on the other, becoming joined sunroof to sunroof.

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The latest book in Willie McIntyre's Best Defence series hits shelves this week. Judge Not is the 15th book in the series. Did the Rev. Eddie Dunlop avenge his murdered wife? Of course he did. Is he linked to a series of gangland killings? It certainly looks like it. Why is Robbie Munro defendi

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