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Female workers at a council are due backdated pay of up to six figures stemming from an equal pay dispute going back over 10 years.

The Edinburgh trams inquiry into why the project took so long and overran its budget could take as long as two years to complete.

About 250 people turned up at George Square in Glasgow yesterday to lobby for the legalisation of cannabis. So-called “420” day is observed around the world by supporters of the class B drug at 4:20pm.

In celebration of its 200th anniversary, Lindsays has produced a timeline of the firm's history on its website which highlights key dates and images which mark changes for the firm over the years.

A transgender woman has failed in a legal challenge at the High Court to a requirement that she must be recorded as the “father” of her two children on their birth certificates. A judge ruled that the UK's birth registration scheme, which requires that the woman, JK, be recorded as the f

Spring is in the air for the Scottish construction sector and most certainly for our sister publication Scottish Construction Now which is recording soaring traffic on its new website. The revamped Scottish Construction newsletter and website were launched last November and last month, in addition t

Two solicitors from Shepherd and Wedderburn have been nominated in the Scottish Renewables' Young Professionals Green Energy Awards.

A former asylum seeker who was convicted for terror offences remains in prison despite having served his sentence, and has launched a new bid for freedom. Nasserdine Menni, a 41-year old Algerian convicted of helping to fund a suicide bombing in Sweden in 2010, is in Low Moss jail in East Dunbartons

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has published a manifesto for the General Election that calls for changes to immigration rules in Britain and hits out at the Conservatives' proposed 'snoopers' charter'. Launching the document from Edinburgh today, first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said

A former director of a Scottish Championship football team who loaned more than £200,000 to the club has failed in a legal action to recover the money. The pursuer Gerard Nixon, who was a director of the defender Livingston Football Club (LFC) between 2009 and 2013, sought decree of payment of a to

Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre has launched a campaign which it hopes will give a voice to people in the private rent sector and lead to reforms.

Sections of the media have distorted a lecture given by Lord Neuberger, president of the Supreme Court to suggest he called for Muslim women to be allowed to wear a full veil while giving evidence in court. Headlines like "Britain's top judge says Muslim women should be allowed to wear full veil in

Four solicitors have been promoted to partner at Morton Fraser, bringing the number of new partners at the Scottish law firm in the past year to eleven. In recognition and reward for their depth of experience and expertise, Iain Young, David Stewart, Brian Macfarlane and Lucia Clark will take up pos

A landowner who is seeking to challenge a decision to grant consent to plans for a new wind farm near his estate has had an application for a protective expenses order refused. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that, having regard to the petitioner’s financial position, the proceedings would n

Lord Carloway The lord justice clerk has been criticised by an advocate for saying his critics have “transparent self-interest”.