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Tens of thousands of EU citizens in the UK are set to receive letters from the Home Office warning them that they could lose their right to healthcare and employment if they do not immediately apply for settled status. The deadline for applying to the EU settlement scheme is next Wednesday 30 June,

Victims of domestic abuse are being urged to report incidents to police by Justice Secretary Keith Brown. The call comes after official figures show the police recorded 62,907 incidents of domestic abuse in 2019-20 – an increase of four per cent compared to the previous year.

Three Scottish law schools have been included in the top 10 of the Complete University Guide's 2021 rankings for law. Cambridge and Oxford took first and second place respectively, followed by UCL in third and LSE in fourth.

A former prison officer who murdered his friend and disposed of her body in woodland has been jailed for life. Ross Willox was found guilty of the murder of Emma Faulds, 39, after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow last month. On Tuesday he was jailed for life.

Since the beginning of the millennium, the USA and the EU Member States have created and implemented legislation intended to provide limited exceptions to hosts’ liability when illegal or infringing content has been uploaded by internet users, writes James McFarlane. This was an important prot

The XXVth Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) in Edinburgh has been postponed by a year and will now be held on 21 September 2022.

An unexpected plague of mice has forced hundreds of prisoners and prison staff to evacuate. The population of mice in New South Wales, Australia, has boomed in the last year due to an extremely good grain harvest.

Society should adopt asynchronous legal hearings, Professor Richard Susskind has said. Speaking at an online conference hosted by the Judicial Institute for Scotland on what lies ahead for civil justice, the legal futurist laid out developments in the court system that he expects to see.

Scotland’s new law officers have been sworn in at a ceremony at the Court of Session. The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, and Solicitor General for Scotland, Ruth Charteris QC, were nominated by the First Minister and then unanimously approved for appointment by the Scottish Parliament last we

Murgitroyd IP, the international intellectual property business headquartered in Glasgow, has made two senior appointments to its leadership team. Helen Archibald has been appointed chief operating officer and Joanne Lecky is to be the managing director of the company’s trade mark group. They

Fine art prints of British artist Stephen McClean’s paintings of the exterior and interior of Edinburgh’s iconic Parliament Hall are to be published and signed by the Lord President to raise funds for the Lawscot Foundation.

With 30 September signaling the termination of furlough support from the UK government, barring any change of heart, it is inevitable that many employers will be reducing headcount, writes Stuart Robertson. Before your business goes down the path of reducing staff numbers, there are important p

Last month saw the completion of 442 sheriff solemn cases, a figure that is 103 per cent of the average pre-Covid level. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has published today the ninth monthly workbook to show the throughput of criminal cases in our courts.

The Lord Chief Justice has suggested making juries smaller to deal with the mounting backlog of criminal cases. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Lord Burnett of Maldon said “an opportunity was missed to introduce a temporary reduction in jury size” at the onset of the pandemic last year.

A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of 21 tonnes of pistachios valued at more than $100,000. California man Alberto Montemayor, 34, of Montemayor Trucking, was arrested after an audit of Touchstone Pistachio Company found that 42,000 pounds of the seeds were missing.