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Alan McIntosh warns against the reintroduction of a "a Dickensian-style system of debt recovery". There have been calls of late for the Scottish government to reintroduce warrant sale-style procedures; these seem now to have found a sympathetic ear. The Accountant in Bankruptcy (AIB), a governm

Michael Matheson New measures to combat organised crime in force from today will widen what can be classed as cash when seizing assets.

Paul Hilton The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors(RICS) has released its March 2018 UK Residential Market Survey, revealing that there is a drop in new buyer enquiries and that average selling prices have remained flat.

A total of 11 questions will be referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on the validity under EU law of EU-US data transfers by Facebook, the Irish Examiner reports. The High Court agreed last October to a request from the Data Protection Commissioner to make the referral following a compl

The High Court has ordered the UK government to hand over a suppressed Metropolitan Police file that recommended charges against a senior MI6 officer for his role in the illegal rendition and torture of opponents of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. The 400-page report was the result of a four-year i

Appeal judges have published their reasons for rejecting a challenge by the chairman of Rangers Football Club to a court order requiring him to make an offer for all the issued ordinary share capital of Rangers International Football Club Plc not already controlled by him. A judge had found in favou

Sarah Gilzean The EAT have overturned an employment tribunal's decision that a male suffered direct sex discrimination when his employer enhanced maternity pay but not shared parental pay, writes Sarah Gilzean.

A week to go, and only a few places remain for the Faculty of Advocates’ 11th World Intellectual Property Day Conference. The freeevent, from 11:30am to 2pm on Friday, 20 April, has the theme “Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity”.

Brian Inkster The Scottish government’s plans for legislative reform of crofting have now been outlined by Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing.

An internal review of a police force has revealed that officers were recording intelligence on dead people. Irish Gardai were mistakenly logging details on their computer system, ironically called Pulse, including ‘sightings’ of homicide victims.

A man who claimed he was struck by a car when he was a primary school boy more than 50 years ago in an accident which he could not remember and of which there was almost no evidence has had has claim for £650,000 in damages against a Scottish local authority dismissed. A judge in the Court of Sessi

Charles Sandison A new law firm, Sandison Kennedy, has been launched in Aberdeen by Charles Sandison.

France has ratified Protocol No.16 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which allows the highest courts of the member states of the Council of Europe to request the court to give advisory opinions on questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedo

Kate Frame The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has found that a police officer was justified in using a PAVA spray to subdue a man who began to struggle during his arrest.