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Dawn Anderson

Placing a cosmetic product containing ingredients which have been tested on animals on the EU market may be prohibited where that testing has been conducted outside the EU in order to market the product in third countries and where the results of that testing are used to prove the safety of the prod

Pictured (L-R): Fiona Rasmusen, Michael Marwick and Scott Rasmusen

Howard Beach Glasgow-based commercial law firm Leslie Wolfson has acted in the £48.3 million sale of a headquarters office building in West Edinburgh, occupied by NHS National Services Scotland.

Laura Brown

Stephen McGowan TLT has secured a premises licence for Glasgow's Britannia Panopticon, the world's oldest surviving music hall,

Lindsay Bryce MacKay

A St Bernard dog has been saved from destruction, after a successful appeal by counsel who acted pro bono. Douglas, a three-year-old St Bernard, attacked a jackadoodle, which had to be put down, and its owner in Arbroath, and a sheriff made an order for the dog’s destruction.

Pictured (L-R): Nazhat Ahmed - development officer at Abertay, Michaela Mills, Lauren Smith, Gordon McBean, Cat McCann, Carol-Ann Smith head of alumni and development at Abertay and Kirsten Dickie.

The mother of a child who developed “significant disabilities” following complications during her labour has successfully sued a Scottish health board after claiming that her baby daughter’s injuries were caused by the “fault and negligence” of hospital staff. A judge in the Court of Sessi

John Paul Sheridan John Paul Sheridan discusses prescription in the wake of ICL Plastics.

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Jeremy Barton KPMG, one of the “big four” accountancy practices is to recruit six India-based lawyers as it makes moves into the legal market.

Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre (GLC) has published its annual report detailing its successes in balancing landlords and tenants' rights in new tenancies legislation as well as the fraught issue of "up front" rent.

Edinburgh-based legal historian Karen Baston’s monograph Charles Areskine’s Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment has been nominated by publisher Brill for the De Long Book History Prize Charles Areskine might be better known to legal scholars as Lord Tinwald