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Dr Greg Gordon of Aberdeen University pays tribute to Professor David Lessels, who passed away on 28 December 2018. Prior to his retirement in 2013, David spent 40 years as a lecturer and senior lecturer within the Law School. Upon retirement, he was appointed an honorary professor, a tribute which

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Corporate law firm Rooney Nimmo has appointed Grant Docherty as a partner in its UK operations. He will be responsible for running the banking team at the firm and will be based in Edinburgh. Mr Docherty has nearly three decades of banking sector law experience having previously served as partner an

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Police Scotland is failing to refer suspects to prosecutors timeously, according to figures obtained by Scottish Labour. Between 2015/16 and 2017/18 there has been around a 20 per cent increase in the number of cases that are not prosecuted because they are time barred, data supplied

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Harper Macleod is helping to bring digital education opportunities to African schoolchildren by supporting the work of The Turing Trust. The firm has donated IT equipment to the charity, set up by relatives of Alan Turing, the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence,

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Courts in Saudi Arabia will notify women by text message when they have been divorced under a new regulation aimed at ending secret divorces. In a statement, the Saudi justice ministry said women will now "be notified of any changes to their marital status via text message".

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The Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates, Dr Kirsty Hood QC, has helped honour one of the world’s major legal figures, the US Supreme Court Associate Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A special screening of RBG, a documentary about Justice Ginsburg, at the Glasgow Film Theatre was followed by a Q&

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A woman who listed her "used husband" on eBay for less than £20 says she received "a lot of positive feedback" but no concrete offers. The advert, addressed to "women who may be interested", read: "Over the first two days of Christmas I have realised that we simply don't belong together any mo

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On-the-spot fines issued by police for anti-social behaviour should be doubled for the worst offenders, the Scottish Conservatives have argued. The party said that the current fixed penalty notice (FPN) for offences including breach of the peace and vandalism should be doubled from £50 to &pou

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Spiralling rents in Glasgow and Edinburgh’s private rented sector are leading to more homelessness and poverty, according to Govan Law Centre. GLC said that the story beneath the Scottish government’s official statistics is stark, and deeply worrying: casework from the centre's Citywide

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