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Joanne Cruickshank Joanne Cruickshank has joined Morton Fraser as legal director in its residential property team.

UK statutory sick pay as well as government help for jobless and self-employed people breach international obligations, a European committee has ruled. The European Committee of Social Rights, a monitoring body of the Council of Europe, described the money available to people claiming statutory sick

Kirstin Nee DUAL Asset Underwriting Limited has been nominated for the Innovation in Practice accolade at 2018 Scottish Legal Awards.

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ed. Whether the appellant had administered a drug to her had very little, if any, bearing on that central issue. In so far as the jury may have been given an impression of the Crown’s lingering suspicion, that could only have had a conceivable bearing, as reflecting on the appellant’s character,

The number of prosecutions that have collapsed because of a failure by prosecutors or police to disclose evidence has risen by 70 per cent in the past two years, the BBC reports. In 2017, 916 people had charges against them dropped because evidence had not been disclosed, a dramatic increase on 2014

Mary Sharpe The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wrote to the chairs of the FTSE 100 and other large companies last month stating it will take legal action where there is evidence of systemic failure to prevent, or deal with, sexual harassment.

Sam Smethers A major report by the Fawcett Society has found that the legal systems across the UK are failing women and in need of fundamental reform.

Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre, has been appointed co-chair of the International Bar Association Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee.

Alan Rodgers Thompsons Solicitors has announced the appointment of Alan Rodgers as a partner.

The Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee has endorsed the Islands Bill in a new report but said it is vital that the actual priorities of Islanders are reflected in the National Islands Plan that will follow the bill. The committee recommends:

DWF is sponsoring the annual Lord Jones Mooting Competition for the second year. The intervarsity competition will be held on Saturday 27th January 2018 at the Scrymgeour Building at the University of Dundee. Teams of law students from universities across Scotland will compete against each other to

Jamie Watt looks at the business risks associated with cryptocurrency projects, and the potential for it to be a gamechanger. The concept of exchanging items of value for trade or payment has been with us for thousands of years. Evidence has been found dating back to 7000BC. Sumerian cuneiform table

A man who was given a non-harassment order (NHO) when his sentence was deferred for “good behaviour” after he was found guilty of “threatening or abusive behaviour” likely to cause “fear or alarm” has had an appeal against the order dismissed. The appellant challenged the competency of t