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Bill Drummond Brodies has been recognised as the leading law firm in Scotland at the Who’s Who Legal Awards 2015 in Washington DC.

The University of Edinburgh Law School has been ranked as one of the world’s top 30 in the 2015 QS World University Rankings. Edinburgh climbed five places in the law rankings, from 32 to 27, and is one of only six UK universities to make the top 30.

A football team which was disqualified from a tournament because it fielded a player who was serving a disciplinary suspension at the time has lost its appeal.

From left: Jaimie Wolbers, Kim Atkinson, Sean Callery, David Meighan (lying down), Sarah Jane Scott, Russell Whyte, Marina Sinclair-Chin, Georgie Millyard, Victoria Kimber, Matthew Jack, Katie Wood, Martin Wood.  

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has published an analysis of trends in the Law Society of Scotland’s handling of complaints about solicitors’ conduct from 2009 to 2014. Under the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007, the SLCC is the single gateway for complaints abo

Employees of a Scottish university who were employed under limited term contracts (LTCs) and who were dismissed but were not included in a redundancy consultation process have won their appeal at the UK Supreme Court.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that men who have had sexual relations with other men may justifiably be prevented from donating blood where it is established such men are at a high risk of contracting severe infectious diseases and, to ensure compatibility with the principle of non-di

Paul Wheelhouse Legal highs are the cause of an increasing number of drug deaths according to the latest statistics.

Stuart Malcolm Shoosmiths has advised laser developer and manufacturer M Squared Lasers on an agreement to develop new technologies with the University of St Andrews.

Police Scotland have revealed that a pilot scheme that gives women the right to know if their partner has a history of violence has provided information to six women since it launched last year.

The General Court of the European Union as cancelled two community trademarks registered by Louis Vuitton because the square pattern is not distinctive enough. The French fashion house has been arguing since 2009 that its dark brown and beige square pattern, registered in 1998, and its black and gre

The parents of missing child Madeleine McCann have been awarded €500,000 in damages after a Portuguese detective accused them of being complicit in their daughter's abduction. Gonçalo Amaral, who led the search for the three-year-old in 2007, was on trial at the Palace of Justice in Lisbon over c

The Home Secretary has successfully challenged a Scottish judge’s decision that her refusal of a Pakistani national’s application for leave to remain in the UK was unlawful. The Lord Ordinary held that a rejection letter by the Secretary of State failed to consider whether refusal of leave to re

A man who threatened a sheriff in her presence that he would find and kill her has been sentenced to over three years in prison. At Airdrie Sheriff Court today, Sheriff Richard Clark sentenced Thomas Rundell to three years and two months imprisonment after the accused pled guilty to threatening to k

A man found guilty of exchanging sexually explicit mobile phone messages with a 13-year-old girl and having in his possession thousands of indecent images of children on his computers has failed in an appeal against conviction but successfully challenged the sentence imposed. The Criminal Appeal Cou