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Strathclyde University has won this year's Lord Jones Moot Competition. The competition is named in memory of University of Dundee Law School alumnus Lord Jones, who was instrumental in its founding and judged the final in 2016.

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A sex offender who travelled to Scotland to rape a child after messaging her on Snapchat has been given an order for lifelong restriction. Wayne Phillipson was found guilty of attacking the victim following a trial at the High Court in Livingston in August 2024. The 48-year-old, from Durham, sent th

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Legislative proposals to help restore nature and protect biodiversity in Scotland have been introduced to Parliament. The Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill, which will now be considered by MSPs, would place a duty on ministers to set legally-binding nature restoration targets and aims to modernise

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The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Thomas Hein. The 25-year-old German national, an HGV driver for Josef Schnell, died on the A74(M) Glasgow to Carlisle Road near Moffat, around Junction 15, in the afternoon of F

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Celebrities A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have promised to name their next child after the lawyer who successfully defended the award-winning rapper on assault charges. A jury in Los Angeles this week found the rapper, legally named Rakim Mayers, not guilty of firing a semi-automatic weapon at a former fri

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A senior UK government minister was told by the English solicitors' regulator to stop describing himself as a former solicitor when he had in fact dropped out of his traineeship to become an MP. The Solicitors' Regulatory Authority (SRA) wrote to the business secretary Jonathan Reynolds in January i

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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. I’ve never seen a more worrying moment, says European human rights chief

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