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Douglas Rankin Marks & Clerk has hailed significant growth in the number of UK-based energy businesses successfully securing European patents.

A man found guilty of dangerous driving who claimed that there was “insufficient evidence” to corroborate his admission that he was the driver and that the warning he received from police that he was to be prosecuted was given “at the time the offence was committed” has had his appeal agains

Professor Hector MacQueen The Scottish Law Commission has recommended that the rules on formation of contract should be included in statute and that the “postal acceptance rule” be abolished in a new report on contract law.

Acting on recommendations from UK-trained torture investigators, Bahrain’s Attorney General has requested that the country’s highest court reconsider the death sentences handed to two men convicted on the basis of forced confessions obtained through torture. Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa wer

A viola player whose hearing was seriously damaged at a rehearsal of Die Walküre in 2012 has won a landmark High Court case against the Royal Opera House. On September 1, 2012, Chris Goldscheider suffered irreversible damage to his hearing after noise levels exceeded 130 decibels, equivalent to a j

Lawyers acting for international rugby star Paddy Jackson, yesterday acquitted after a nine-week rape trial, have invited senior justice officials to discuss proposals to clamp down on social media commentary during trials. In a statement issued after the trial, solicitor Joe McVeigh of Belfast-base

Pictured (L-R): Robert Graham-Campbell, Eilidh Adams, Gillian Wright and Lianne Lodge.

Scullion LAW has promoted practice manager Shanna McDiarmid to executive director of the firm. Ms McDiarmid, from Hamilton, has been with the firm since 2004.

A Scottish local authority which raised an action for £12 million in damages over the loss of a social housing development claiming that a firm of architects appointed as lead consultant had “assumed responsibility” for the other contractors’ negligence has had its claim dismissed following a

A European Arrest Warrant issued for a former Catalan government minister and professor at St Andrews University will likely prevail when the matter comes to court. Clara Ponsatí, now head of the school of economics and finance at St Andrews, has been charged with rebellion and misuse of public fun

Michael O'Flaherty The increasing use of technology at border crossings poses a risk to people's fundamental rights, according to a new EU report.

Michael Stoneham Michael Stoneham details his hopes for Scotland's new national investment bank.

Brian Moore Dentons is advising FreeAgent Holdings plc, the AIM-listed provider of cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) accounting software solutions and mobile applications designed primarily for UK micro-businesses and their accountants, on its proposed acquisition by The Royal Bank of Scotlan

Ricky Cannon DWF has appointed litigation partner Ricky Cannon and hired associate Neale Tosh to its Glasgow office as the firm looks to strengthen its debt recovery and finance litigation services in Scotland. Both join from Brodies where they specialised in business disputes and asset recovery.

Advocate Amber Galbraith and her “shadow” Antonia Welsh A new link-up between the Faculty of Advocates and Strathclyde University will give students a chance to learn about life as an advocate, from the inside.