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Legislation to allow the Unified Patent Court to open in the UK has been put before the Scottish Parliament, The Law Society Gazette reports. A statutory instrument (SI) which would confer legal personality on the court in the UK was put before Holyrood on 31 August.

Roseanna Cunningham A community group in Edinburgh has become the first organisation in an urban area to benefit from community right to buy powers.

Four solicitor advocates are competing to become the first ever Law Society of Scotland Council representative for Scottish solicitor advocates and five Scottish solicitors who work outside of Great Britain are vying to become the society’s first international Council member. The addition of these

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Martin Darroch Harper Macleod has significantly extended its existing sponsorship deal with Glasgow Warriors, after agreeing to sponsor the West Stand at Scotstoun Stadium.

Pictured (L-R): Daryl Jarvis, Victoria MacAulay, Alana Barker and Rebecca Rooney

Dallas McMillan Solicitors’ first ever race night was held at Hillhead Sports Club, Glasgow on Friday 1st September 2017.

Fifty years on from the riots that rocked Detroit in 1967, director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) brings alive one of its most infamous and disputed incidents in an intense and powerful cinematic polemic against racial injustice. We see enough of the rioting to place the f

An elderly man banned from driving until he is 90 has been told he "will have to win the lottery to get an insurance quote". At Newtownards Magistrates Court, District Judge Mark Hamill heard that Lawrence Murdock, 75 has eight previous convictions for driving while disqualified and nine previous co

The family of a man who died in a road traffic accident after a car driven by his partner crashed into another vehicle are to be awarded damages. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the driver failed to prove that the cause of the accident was something other than her negligence.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed actions brought by Slovakia and Hungary against the provisional mechanism for the mandatory relocation of asylum seekers. The mechanism, designed to help Italy and Greece deal with a massive inflow of people during the migration

James Wolffe QC The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC (pictured), has made it clear that prosecutors do not have discretion in applying the law.

Tony Jones BTO Solicitors' Tony Jones (pictured), partner, solicitor advocate and head of the firm's commercial dispute resolution team, has been made a QC.

Sir Nigel Knowles DWF has announced Sir Nigel Knowles (pictured) as its new chairman, effective 1 September 2017. Sir Nigel takes over from Alan Benzie who served for 10 years.