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Caroline Maguire Caroline Maguire , employment legal adviser at Law Centre (NI), writes for our sister publication Irish Legal News on access to justice for victims of labour exploitation in the wake of an important UKSC decision.

Pictured (L-R): Andrew McGettrick, Rob Gregory and Alistair Hindle.

Fraser Morrison Macdonald Henderson has advised Clark Communications in the acquisition of Golley Slater Scotland Limited.

The HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) has taken a tenancy in an Aberdeen office complex. The body, responsible for the administration of the courts south of the border, has taken a long lease for ground-floor accommodation at the AB1 building on Huntly Street.

A man who claimed he was unaware that a document he signed included an indemnity has successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to dismiss his case. The Sheriff Appeal Court allowed a proof before answer after ruling that the sheriff’s judgment was “completely inadequate” in that it failed

Improving information for clients will be vital in a more competitive legal market according to the Law Society of Scotland. In its response to the Competition & Markets Authority's Interim Report on the Legal Services Market, the Law Society has said that the legal services sector should be ful

Scott Blair Advocate Scott Blair, licensing specialist with Terra Firma Chambers, has just secured another licensing success.

Chris McDowall On average, women in paid work receive about 18 per cent less per hour than men, according to a new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Scottish ministers failed to give "proper, adequate and intelligible reasons" for granting plans to build a railfreight super-hub on greenbelt land. Judges in the Court of Session said ministers had "largely ignored" concerns their own independent reporter brought to them in relation to the proposed

A Glasgow solicitor on his honeymoon in Italy has spoken of his frightening ordeal after feeling the effects of the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that hit in the early hours this morning. Ryan Sloan and his wife Sarah (pictured together) were honeymooning in Rome when the quake hit about 100 miles northe

Gillian Carty Shepherd and Wedderburn celebrates the anniversary of its legal advice clinics this week, which have been held at Musselburgh and Haddington Citizens Advice Bureaus (CAB) for the past five years.

A former Navy officer who was jailed after being convicted of brandishing a knife and punching a 17-year-old boy which resulted in his victim having to undergo extensive dental treatment has successfully appealed against his sentence. The Criminal Appeal Court quashed the custodial sentence imposed

David Arnott This week's SLN Spotlight falls on Brodies' partner David Arnott. He has 25 years’ experience resolving construction, infrastructure and engineering disputes and is ranked a band 1 construction lawyer in Chambers & Partners.

In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of J.K. and Others v. Sweden the European Court of Human Rights held, by ten votes to seven, that there would be: a violation of article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights if the ord