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In the run-up to the festive period, staff at UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn stocked up on food and toiletry supplies to donate to their local Trussell Trust foodbanks. For three weeks, collection points were installed across the firm’s Edinburgh, Glasgow and London offices, which, on collect

Firefighters had to be called in to help a police officer after they handcuffed someone — themselves.

Plans to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and replace it with a “British Bill of Rights” were rejected by the Scottish Parliament last night after MSPs voted 93-30 in favour of the Scottish government’s motion calling on the UK government not to withdraw from “internatio

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A homeowner who claimed that a Scottish local authority acted beyond its powers in imposing a condition that a property owner required to pay their share of the cost of repairs to a tenement by the time the final account for the works was issued or be liable for the full costs has had his legal chal

John Scott QC The principles determining when police can use stop and search powers have been set out in a code of practice.

Douglas Strang A recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has shed light on the way that tribunals should interpret the test for disability discrimination, explains Douglas Strang.

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The European Commission has proposed legislation to bring rules for all electronic communication providers in line with the ePrivacy Directive and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A key proposal in the Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications extends privacy rules to ne

A man indicted in Florida for first degree murder and attempted robbery with a firearm whom the US authorities have been seeking to extradite since 2003 has made a second, article 3, application to the European Court of Human Rights complaining that a first-degree murder conviction in the US carries

Jeremy Wright QC Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC will set out the legal basis for pre-emptive military strikes against overseas terror targets in a speech tonight.

Paisley Sheriff Court (Photo credit: Google Street View) A man who jokingly asked his fellow jurors to convict the accused in a trial so they could get home for Christmas has been fined £400, The Herald reports.

Kaley Crossthwaite The total value of reported fraud in 2016 hit a five-year high, increasing 31.5 per cent to £2 billion, according to new analysis by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP.

Anne Begg Statistics published by property experts show that 779 properties sold for a total of just under £134 million in Perthshire last year.

The so-called "Indycampers" have been refused permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after being evicted from the grounds of the Scottish Parliament last November. The group established a camp outside Holyrood at the end of 2015, vowing to remain until Scotland became independent.