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The Scottish legal sector has welcomed 49 new solicitors at an admissions ceremony held at the historic Signet Library in Edinburgh.

Customs officials have confiscated giraffe faeces from a traveller who said she planned to make a necklace from the droppings. The small box of ball-shaped droppings was declared by a woman returning from Kenya to Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in the US.

Mercy killings will not always be prosecuted, new guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service states. Cases in which the victim had a clear and informed desire to end their life or in which the suspected killer acted under significant emotional pressure could make prosecution unlikely.

Eighteen new devils at the Faculty of Advocates settled into their foundation course training at the Mackenzie Building in Edinburgh this week.

A leading barrister, arbitrator and shipping expert will address some of the challenges facing the shipping sector at a special event in Aberdeen. James Turner KC, has decades of experience in energy, shipbuilding, and shipping disputes and has a focus on decommissioning, ship recycling and decarbon

The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law will host a symposium to discuss the monograph Claiming a Promised Inheritance: a Comparative Study by Edinburgh Law School's Professor Alexandra Braun. The book examines those cases where a person is promised a future inheritance and, having acted on it, la

Home Secretary Suella Braverman acted unlawfully by using a statutory instrument to give the police more powers to impose restrictions on protests that cause ‘more than minor’ disruption, human rights organisation Liberty has claimed. Liberty argues that Ms Braverman was not given the po

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UN-backed probe into Ethiopia's abuses is set to end. No one has asked for it to continue

Addleshaw Goddard has recruited two new partners to its corporate team. Derek McCombe and Iain Sutherland, who join the firm from Dentons, will be based in the firm's Glasgow office, joining existing Glasgow-based corporate partners Murray Jack and Anna Brown.

Post Office investigation and prosecution policy documents were not sufficient to ensure compliance with key legislation, a criminal prosecutions expert has told the Horizon inquiry. The first part of an expert report by Duncan Atkinson KC, who was instructed by Sir Wyn Williams to independent analy

Lawyers who successfully sued Tesla's board of directors over excessive compensation are to seek more than $10,000 per hour in costs. A dozen Tesla board members agreed to repay $735 million as part of a settlement following the 2020 lawsuit brought by Tesla shareholders, as well as to forgo compens

Macnabs has announced the opening of a new office in Perth.

Minster Law has announced plans to open north of the border with the launch of Glasgow-based Minster Law Scotland. Marina Harper has been appointed as executive director of the new Scottish business. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the role, with over 17 years of experience in personal injury la

Legal technology expert Professor Richard Susskind will be delivering a lecture entitled AI and the Future of Legal Services at Strathclyde Law School later this month. Professor Susskind has been a pioneer in law and technology. He is president of the Society for Computers and Law, and technology a

Terra Firma Chambers’ position as one of the leading stables at the Scottish bar has been recognised in the latest edition of the Legal 500.