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A house in Fife has sold for £600,000 above the asking price. Three-bedroom Old Bake House, on Earlsferry’s waterfront, has direct access to the beach.

Immigration is in the news a lot right now, mostly stories about the UK government’s plans to reform the asylum system in response to small boats arriving on the English South Coast, writes Kelly Hardman. The government line is that they want to welcome refugees but expect them to enter t

Organisations and community groups working to support refugees in Scotland will share £2.8 million through a new grant scheme. In total, 56 projects will receive funding to deliver initiatives designed to help new Scots settle in their adopted communities by promoting employability, education,

Facebook could be forced to sell off Giphy, one of the largest online platforms for animated GIFs, following concerns raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The CMA has provisionally found Facebook's $400 million merger with Giphy will harm competition between social media platf

Digby Brown Solicitors has raised £14,423 thanks to a mass fundraising effort involving 23 simultaneous events. 

Compass Chambers' Malcolm McGregor will be taking part in the Pyrenees Stage Run and will be raising funds for the Beatson Cancer Charity – Compass Chambers’ nominated charity for 2021. The Pyrenees Stage Run is a seven-stage race beginning in Ribes de Freser, crossing a section of the P

A Pakistani man and his parents received asylum in the EU last week after having gone through an “unspeakable ordeal”. In 2014, a court sentenced Zehmat Akhtar's parents, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel to death by hanging over allegations of blasphemy.

A former accounts manager at a non-profit affiliated with a medical school has pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $13 million. Florida man Ralph Puglisi, 59, faces a jail term of up to 20 years, The Tampa Bay Times reports. He worked for the University of South Florida's medical service association

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has permitted a petition by a US-based non-profit organisation for judicial review of the approach taken by the Scottish Ministers in applying for Unexplained Wealth Orders to proceed. The Avaaz Foundation also sought a determina

The Crown Office is being sued for £120 million by a global financial consultancy firm over reputational damage allegedly sustained during the botched fraud probe into Rangers. New York-based multinational Duff & Phelps has claimed it suffered loss of earnings as two of its employees were

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, and the Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, will deliver keynote speeches at a half-day virtual conference which will consider how tribunals in Scotland have adapted to the pandemic and how that might inform their future development. This conference

Adelyn Wilson has been promoted to the post of professor at Aberdeen University. Her research interests include early-modern Scottish legal history, public law, and the law of abortion in the UK. She is the co-director of the Centre for Scots Law, the chair of the Aberdeen Humanities Fund, a co-dire

New guidance for schools on supporting transgender children and young people has been published. The guidance contains real-life examples, best practice and advice on a range of issues that are known to affect transgender pupils including bullying, safety and privacy.

Labour and Co-op MSP Paul Sweeney has tabled a motion in support of Govanhill Law Centre, which last week had a funding application rejected and now faces closure. Mr Sweeney's motion calls on Holyrood to recognise "the crucial services provided by Govanhill Law Centre" as well as "the wid

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has received a total of 2,754 separate allegations of misconduct, including fraud, money laundering and compliance complaints, according to official figures. The data, analysed by the Parliament Street think tank and contained in the FCA’s newly publi