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Four years on from the M9 motorway crash in which John Yuill and Lamara Bell tragically died, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has warned that the current fatal accident inquiry (FAI) process urgently needs to be fixed and called for a full independent review of the FAI system. An FAI

Pictured (clockwise from top left): Jenny Broatch, Alasdair Docwra, Lydia Papandrianou, Lucy Metcalf and Clare Macpherson Thorntons has appointed Lucy Metcalf as a director in its family law team in the capital.

Ofcom has fined the news channel RT £200,000 for serious failures to comply with its broadcasting rules – and required the channel to broadcast a summary of its findings to viewers. The regulator has rules in place requiring broadcast news to be presented with due impartiality and its in

Edinburgh tech business Neatebox has raised more than £180,000 from investors as it continues to capitalise on the market for its Welcome app, which gives businesses and venues advance notice of customers' disability requirements.

Blackadders’ highly-rated Employment Lawyer In Your Pocket podcast returns for another season on 6 September 2019.

Technology companies have been invited to compete for £250,000 in funding from Nesta Challenges and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for projects which will widen access to legal support for individuals and businesses. The Legal Access Challenge is open to entries from now until

Landmark Information Group, parent company of Millar & Bryce, has announced the acquisition of Aventria’s conveyancing panel management business which has been renamed Optimus. Optimus has an excellent reputation for making property transactions smoother and faster by providing UK mortgage

Two women were promptly arrested after complaining to police that a hitman they hired had ripped them off. The 52-year-old woman and her 20-year-old daughter allegedly plotted with the daughter's 29-year-old boyfriend to find and kill the older woman's ex-partner.

An Indian man whose application for leave to remain in the UK based on his marriage to a British woman was refused has successfully challenged the decision. A judge in the Court of Session reduced the decision by the Home Office after ruling that officials failed to take into consideration

A Glasgow MP has presented a bill to the UK Parliament this week to protect asylum seekers from eviction. Private housing provider Serco had issued a series lock-change orders to more than 300 people refused asylum in the UK, although the action has been temporarily stalled by a series of interim in

Back in March, my colleague Tom Stocker discussed the findings of a House of Lords select committee which reviewed the 2010 Bribery Act, and specifically how businesses self-report suspected cases of bribery and corruption. While describing the act as “international gold standard” with l

On 15 July, the Lord Chancellor announced that the discount rate for England and Wales would be increased from -0.75 per cent to -0.25 per cent. This is a lower increase than had been predicted and a disappointment for the insurance industry, who do not believe it will allow for an appropriate asses

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have warned that Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf “cannot just throw up his hands and pass the buck” after the Scottish Prison Service announced that all of its throughcare support officers (TSOs) were being reassigned into general prison officer roles to dea

A new forum is being created to oversee and scrutinise railway policing in Scotland. The Scottish Railways Policing Committee, agreed by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) and the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA), aims to improve accountability and facilitate a stronger role for the SPA in

Complaints of sexual harassment by solicitors in England and Wales rose sharply in 2017/18 in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said. The regulator's Upholding Professional Standards 2017/18 report reveals that it received 70 complaints about sexual haras