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John McKinlay Multinational law firm DLA Piper has been appointed as the sole legal adviser to CodeClan, Scotland's first digital skills academy.

Paul Motion Scots law firm bto Solicitors has taken the stage at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the sixth consecutive year.

A trade union which challenged the introduction of fees for claimants to pursue employment tribunals has had an appeal for judicial review of the policy refused. Unison argued that the decline in the number of cases being brought to tribunal was due to claimants now having to pay anything up to £1,

Sir Stephen House Sir Stephen House, chief constable of Police Scotland has today announced he will leave his post by December 2015.

Ronald Conway The fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the Glasgow bin lorry crash has heard the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is "failing the public on a truly disturbing scale".

Lord Woolman The liquidator of a multi-million pound hedge fund who raised an action against the company’s solicitors alleging that the firm “breached its fiduciary duties” to its client has failed in a bid to have three of the firm’s new partners included as defenders in the case.

Graham Ogilvy The number of subscribers to the Scottish Legal News daily newsletter has broken through the 10,000 level with the total number of subscribers to the service reaching 10,080 this month.

Alison Sim Law firm HBJ Gateley has appointed Alison Sim a former legal director of oil and gas contractor Subsea 7, as a partner in its Aberdeen office.

Cat MacLean A well-known Edinburgh solicitor who was aided by the Maggie's centre during her battle against aggressive breast cancer is to swim the Forth to say thank you and raise finds for the charity.

Second Quarter house purchase lending in Scotland saw a 39 per cent quarter-on-quarter rise as increases were recorded in both the number of loans made and the amount borrowed. According to the latest data from theCouncil of Mortgage Lenders, while the year-on-year comparison for Q2 was less substan

Humza Yousaf The Scottish Government has invited organisations campaigning for better rights for migrant workers around the world to join a special roundtable meeting next month.

Grahame Smith The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has called on public bodies in Scotland to refuse to implement the provisions of the government's Trade Union Bill.

Kaliani Lyle The Equality and Human Rights Commission has announced a major new project to increase reporting rates of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) hate crime.

Pictured: The trial is played out... The Faculty of Advocates has marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Muir of Huntershill with a scene-setting lecture and a dramatic reconstruction of parts of the trial.

An animal rights group has written to the Scottish Government demanding a member of a group examining wild fisheries law be removed because of his alleged association with recent wildlife crime. Animal Concern has said George Pullar, director of The Scottish Wild Salmon Company, should no longer sit