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Maria Botha-Lopez The median selling time for properties in Edinburgh is down to 15 days, indicating a thriving market where buyers are willing to snap up properties quickly and over the home report valuation, according to the latest analysis from ESPC, property experts in east central Scotland.

The Law Society of Scotland is looking for solicitors, paralegals and trainees to take part in a one-hour focus group in Edinburgh or Glasgow. It needs your views to make sure it develops an app that will be useful to members. To thank participants for attending the focus group, the Law Society will

The Scottish Sentencing Council (SSC) has launched a new interactive case study resource on its website. The new resource presents an interactive scenario, following the court case of “Paul”, who has robbed a shop. As web users go through the case, they decide what happens next and choose what s

Kenneth Campbell QC The Scottish Council of Law Reporting (SCLR) has appointed Kenneth Campbell QC as its new chairman.

Liz Truss Liz Truss has been sacked as Lord Chancellor and demoted to Chief Secretary of the Treasury following a tenure dogged by controversy.

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to death for making blasphemous remarks on Facebook. Taimoor Raza, 30, was convicted by an anti-terrorism court in Bahawalpur of posting blasphemous remarks about the Prophet Muhammad, his wives and companions.

It is incompatible with EU law to require a worker to take leave first before being able to establish whether he is entitled to be paid for it, according to Advocate General Tanchev. In circumstances where an employer has not provided a worker with paid leave, the right to paid leave carries over un

Following the results of the general election, Burness Paull chairman, Philip Rodney, has said Scottish businesses will react positively to the diminished possibility of a second independence referendum and a "Hard Brexit. Commenting this morning, Mr Rodney said: “At a constitutional level, it wou

Lady Hale A couple who want to take their seriously ill baby to the US for experimental treatment against the wishes of the hospital in which he is being kept on life support have been refused permission to appeal by the Supreme Court.

Colm Mac Eochaidh has been appointed a judge at the General Court of the European Union for a term of office expiring on 31 August 2019. Mr Mac Eochaidh was born in 1963 and graduated in law from University College Dublin in 1984.

Nicola Edgar Nicola Edgar explains new rules which recently came into force introducing pursuers' offers into the Court of Session and Sheriff Court Ordinary Cause procedure.

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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh The SNP’s Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, a solicitor, has lost her seat of Ochil and South Perthshire to Conservative Luke Graham.

The Supreme Court will rule next week on a challenge to the Secretary of State for Health over his failure to make abortion available on the NHS in England to women from Northern Ireland. Judgment in R (on the application of A and B) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Health (Respondent) will be

An arranged marriage in Tamil Nadu, India went off script when the groom's brother unexpectedly married the bride instead. The Bollywood-esque twist happened last Thursday as a man intended to marry a 20-year-old woman at Bala Murugan Temple at Ilayampatti.