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One of the parties charged with, but later acquitted of, fraud in connection with an allegedly fraudulent scheme to acquire Rangers Football Club in 2011 has lost a reclaiming motion challenging the decision of the Lord Ordinary to refuse claims for damages against the Lord Advocate and the Chief Co

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The UK scheme to settle millions of EU citizens is unlawful, the High Court has ruled.

A former Argentinian police officer who tortured and killed a left-wing student during Argentina's military dictatorship in the 1970s has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. Mario Sandoval, 69, was convicted by a court in Buenos Aires of involvement in the 1976 kidnapping and killing of Hern&a

The failure to make full use of Scotland's only open prison has been criticised in a new report. HMP Castle Huntly, in Longforgan near Dundee, is able to house 285 inmates – but had only 100 at its last inspection.

The case of two fans of actress Ana de Armas who are suing a film studio for removing her from the film Yesterday has reached the next stage. Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza accused Universal Studios of false representation and fraud at the beginning of this year after they paid $3.99 to rent t

A solicitor who embezzled £7,000 from his firm by misappropriating professional fees has been jailed for ten months. Leo McGarvey, 54, embezzled the sum from RGM Solicitors in Grangemouth between 2011 and 2017.

Three former solicitors are among five men convicted of money laundering, The Times reports. Former lawyers Iain Robertson, 69, David Lyons, 71 and Alistair Blackwood, 68, were convicted alongside Mohammed Aziz, 61, and Robert Ferguson, 67, following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

The proprietors of a country house and estate near Stirling have lost an appeal against a decision to amend a core path through a Scottish national park to allow the public access through land surrounding their estate. The petitioners, a charity which owned Gartmore House and the surrounding Gartmor

Scottish government plans to bring forward new legislation to reform and modernise the regulation of legal services are good news for consumers and the Scottish legal sector, the Law Society has said. Scottish ministers today published their formal response to last year’s consultation on updat

Aligning legislation, introducing a two-tier system of application costs and greater mental health support form the substance of a report by MPs on firearms licensing. The Scottish Affairs committee has today set out a number of areas that can potentially save costs, streamline rules and mitigate me

Edinburgh-based SnapDragon Monitoring, an online brand protection and reputation management specialist, has appointed commercial lawyer Ewan McIntyre as its first general counsel. Mr McIntyre brings extensive commercial legal experience to the business along with expertise in the technology and inte

Keoghs has defended the first reported decision testing the parameters of the rules on QOCS exceptions in Scotland, in the case of Lennox v Iceland Foods Limited. The decision provides clarification on how courts may define ‘manifestly unreasonable’ when deciding whether to apply QOCS in

A brothel keeper known as Madam Moneybags died owing the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service more than £780,000. Margaret Paterson, an Edinburgh pimp, had only repaid £219,559 of the sum owed when she died at the age of 66 in September 2019.

Addleshaw Goddard has added a new partner to its dispute resolution team in Scotland with the recruitment of Douglas Blyth. The highly experienced litigator and solicitor advocate joins from Dentons where he headed up the firm's dispute resolution practice in Scotland and was joint lead of the UK li