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A lawyer who ruled in the Rangers tax case ordered the bulk of his £4 million fortune be used to help with the education of the people on a Hebridean island. Kenneth Mure QC willed millions of pounds to charity on his death last year at the age of 69. Mr Mure was a member of the three-person tribun

A suite of free courses on law in Scotland have been released by The Open University. The courses – The Scottish Parliament and law-making, Scottish courts and the law, Legal skills and debates in Scotland, and Law and change: Scottish legal heroes – come twenty years on from the historic vote f

Scott Whyte (left) and Donald Wright

Fraser Gillies Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has joined one of the world’s largest multi-disciplinary

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A claimant in a simple procedure case which was initially defended and then settled when the pursuer accepted a tender is entitled to the expenses of process as assessed, after a court rejected the defender’s argument that he should have his liability in expenses capped at 10% of the sum decerned

Jeremy Hutchinson QC, Lord Hutchinson of Lullington, has passed away at the age of 102. Lord Hutchinson was regarded as the greatest criminal barrister of his generation. He was junior defence counsel in the Lady Chatterley trial; defended the spy George Blake; model Christine Keeler and the drug de

A non-EU national may benefit from a right of residence in the Member State in which his EU citizen family member resided before she acquired the nationality of that Member State in addition to her nationality of origin, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled. The court ruled th

Kevin Stewart A website which allows users to create tenancy agreements complying with new legislation has been welcomed by landlords.

The EU must renew its efforts to promote gender equality and eradicate discrimination and violence towards women, according to a new paper from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). The paper – Challenges to women's human rights in the EU: Gender discrimination, sexist hate speech and gender

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the independent body that deals with complaints about lawyers, has launched two new guides to help people working with a solicitor to write a will, or involved in an executry (carrying out the instructions in a will) avoid running into difficulties. T

Alan McIntosh Alan McIntosh calls for lenders to show forbearance as legal action against debtors rises sharply south of the border.

A man accused of rape who objected to the admissibility of his police interview has had his complaint upheld. A High Court judge ruled that the “repeated and prolonged” questioning of the accused after he indicated he would be exercising his “right to silence”, in the hope that he would chan

Donna Reynolds Donna Reynolds looks at proposals to combat maternity discrimination.

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