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Computers are being trained to solve problems by bingeing on episodes of a popular TV crime drama. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh mapped footage, script and background sounds from five seasons of Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) into a machine-readable format. The data was fed into a com

Thompsons has promoted Seonaid Brophy (pictured right) from the union accident team and Jillian Merchant (pictured below) from the firm’s employment law department to associate level. Ms Brophy joined Thompsons in 2012 after completing the Diploma. She started her traineeship in the lung disease t

The November edition of the Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) newsletter is now available. Issue 12 includes information on committee work & membership, recent rules and consultations.

Police responding to reports of a fight were stunned when a "significant bulge" in the trousers of one of the feuding pair turned out to be a snake. The drunk 19-year-old was stopped by police following reports he was acting aggressively towards another man in Darmstadt, Germany.

The UK Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in a legal challenge against decisions by the Scottish Ministers to grant consents for the construction of four offshore wind farms in the North Sea. A panel of three justices refused permission to ap

Professor Adam Tomkins

Roger Connon The former head of Pinsent Masons’ Aberdeen office, Roger Connon, has taken up a new role with the firm and will focus on expanding the Vario freelance legal resource to the north east’s oil and gas sector.

A sheriff principal has said he included future loss in the calculation of the success fee in his review of the civil litigation costs regime because to exclude it would, among other things, incentivise delay. Holyrood’s Justice Committee took evidence on the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group P

John Swinney

The Hindles team with founding director Alistair Hindle at second from left (by Stewart Attwood) Hindles, a firm of patent and trade mark attorneys that became the first specialist intellectual property (IP) firm to originate from Edinburgh since the Industrial Revolution when it was founded in 2005

Sally Morris-Smith Shepherd and Wedderburn has advised on a £34.7 million funding deal that will lead to the construction of nearly 600 new homes.

A pub manager who was barred from showing certain live football matches has been found in contempt of court after a broadcaster brought proceedings for breach of interdict. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that Robert Stewart, premises manager of The Village Inn in Edinburgh, wilfully breached

The European Court of Human Rights will hear a landmark case on surveillance today as part of a challenge to the lawfulness of the UK’s surveillance laws and its intelligence agencies’ mass surveillance practices. The case, described by campaigners as a “watershed moment for people’s privacy

Pictured (L-R): Charlie Fraser, partner, Jacqueline Law, managing partner, Michael Sinclair, senior property partner and Allan Gardner, financial services director.

Julie Scott-Gilroy