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Disabling Barriers Scotland, established in December, last year, is holding its next meeting on 7 March at 17:30. The group, founded by Tom McGovern and Fraser Mackay, is open to support from all who have an interest in making the Scottish legal sector more accessible for those with a disability.

A notorious gangster has escaped prison by knotting bed sheets together into a makeshift rope and abseiling from a window. Marco Raduano, a leading figure in the Sacra Corona Unita mafia, made the cartoonish escape from the Badu 'e Carros prison in Sardinia.

Balfour and Manson has appointed Scott Foster as its new chief operating officer. Mr Foster, who spent 35 years at Royal Bank of Scotland, mainly as a relationship manager to professional service firms, joins on April 3rd. He has worked as a relationship banker with Balfour and Manson for 18 years.

An artificial intelligence start-up has struck a deal to develop a robot lawyer that can draft contracts. Robin AI has secured $10.5m (£8.8m) in equity funding and is developing a bot to parse contracts and suggest new wording to lawyers.

Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College Thu 30 March 202317:30 - 19:30 (GMT)

An advocate has called for the term “alternative dispute resolution” or “ADR” to be removed from the language of dispute resolution lawyers. Addressing the annual dinner of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Scottish Branch on Friday evening [24 February 2023], Westwater

Friday, 24 February 2023 marked one year since Russia launched its illegal invasion of Ukraine. Law Society of Scotland president Murray Etherington reflects on what has been lost and achieved in the past year, and on the importance of remaining steadfast in providing support through the struggles a

Thanks to the benevolence of a scion of Scottish nobility and her husband nearly a century ago solicitors in need of a break from the pressures and stress of modern working life can obtain funding to enjoy a holiday in Scotland. Lady Helen Stewart-Murray was a daughter of the 7th Duke of Atholl. She

Throughout this year’s LGBT+ History Month, Shepherd & Wedderburn has produced a series of articles to celebrate LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to the production of film and cinema from ‘behind the lens’. The first article, written by Michelle Clement, focussed on the aesthe

Ben Zielinski and Alice Gray explain the details of the Deposit Return Scheme.  Scotland’s new Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) is due to come into force on 16 August 2023 as a result of the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020.

A former SNP MP who was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for embezzling funds from a Scottish independence group and the Glasgow City branch of the SNP has had her sentence reduced by four months following an appeal to the High Court of Justiciary. In an appeal against her conviction and s

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Google owner Alphabet has sacked its robot cleaners as part of a cost-cutting exercise. More than 100 robots developed by the tech giant's Everyday Robotics department were helping to clean cafeterias and conference rooms in its San Francisco headquarters.

A career as an advocate is open to anyone with the necessary ability and motivation. So said the Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates Barney Ross, who joined other Faculty members at a ‘Becoming an advocate’ panel discussion at the University of Edinburgh’s Law School earlier this wee

Today, 24 February 2023, marks exactly one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. In October 2022, at the opening ceremony of the IBA Annual Conference in Miami, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed delegates by video in which he referred to members of the audience as "defenders of the