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The man found guilty of the “limbs in the loch” murder has had a claim for damages refused after his confidential correspondence was opened by prison officers. William Beggs was seeking £5,000 compensation after a judge had ruled that his human rights were breached in jail when “privileged”
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Calum MacNeill QC Westwater Advocates’ Calum MacNeill QC represented fingerprint officer Fiona McBride in the Supreme Court in a successful bid to restore the decision of an Employment Tribunal to order her employers, the Scottish Police Services Authority (now the Scottish Police Authority), to r
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Ahead of next week's Brexit referendum, Scottish lawyers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Britain remaining in the EU. Of the 528 respondents in a poll conducted by Scottish Legal News, the daily news service for Scotland's lawyers, 78 per cent voted in favour of Remain and only 22 per cent in
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Judith Robertson The has submitted a report to the United Nations (UN) setting out ways in which people in Scotland’s economic, social and cultural rights are not being met. The report has been submitted as part of a review taking place this week in Geneva, by the UN Committee for the Internationa
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Isobel d’Inverno House sales in Scotland have seen a significant boost thanks to a new property tax.
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Michael Matheson Communities will “see real benefits” in their local areas from an increase in community sentences the Scottish government claimed after announcing £4 million extra funding for the scheme.
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Kennedys has continued its growth in Scotland with its relocation to a new office in Edinburgh.
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Jeremy Black The UK’s top 100 law firms have seen a 5.4 per cent increase in fee income over the past year. Figures released yesterday, according to a survey by Deloitte, revealed a generally positive outlook on the financial position of the legal profession.
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A retired solicitor has been fined more than £4,000 for taking wild birds eggs from a nest on the Orkney Islands. At Kirkwall Sheriff Court 73 year old William Beaton, from Devon, pled guilty to wildlife crimes carried out in late May and early June this year on Orkney.
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An innovative system which allows for court documents to be presented on Android tablets was put to the test in the Supreme Court of Ireland yesterday. The bespoke eCourt app, developed by eCúirt Teoranta, was used yesterday during the appeal case of Lannigan v Barry.
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A Russian lawyer is taking his ex-girlfriend to court in a bid to have her return the cash he spent on a couple's holiday in Crimea. Nikolai Zyablikov, 38, who is suing Nina Zgurskaya, 29, brought meticulously categorised receipts for flowers, food and drinks to district court in the Siberian city o
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled the UK’s policy requiring recipients of child benefit and child tax credit to have a right to reside in the UK, while indirectly discriminatory, is justified by the need to protect the finances of the host member state. The regulation on the coo
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Roddy Dunlop The election for the new Dean of the Faculty of Advocates is shaping to be a three-way contest between Roddy Dunlop QC, Peter Gray, QC, and Gordon Jackson QC.
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A sheriff has slammed police who offered a man a fixed penalty fine for an imprisonable offence after he caused disturbance in a hospital. Brian Halliburton, of Dundee, followed staff around Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital, filming them and claiming that they were “neglecting patients”. When asked
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