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Plans by the billionaire ruler of Dubai to build a lodge at his Scottish Highland retreat have been refused by councillors. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum wanted to develop the building at Inverinate in Wester Ross to house his large family.

A man who was convicted of assaulting his former partner and of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner in breach of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 has succeeded in having the former charge quashed by the Sheriff Appeal Court. The convictions of the appellant,

A crowdfunded legal challenge is being brought against ministers after they refused to order an investigation into the shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS staff during the coronavirus pandemic. The applicants, including the Good Law Project, led by Jolyon Maugham QC, are seeking

MSPs on Holyrood’s Social Security Committee have backed a bill which would allow adult benefit claimants, who consent, to nominate an appointee to claim benefits on their behalf. However, they have warned that suitable safeguards must be put in place to limit fraud and the exploitation of vul

MacRoberts' director of HR Rupa Mooker challenges law firms to walk the walk, not just talk the talk on diverse recruitment. One of the tweets that stood out to me on Twitter over the last few weeks or so during the #blacklivesmatter social media campaign was one which said “Thank you for your

Britain's human rights watchdog has launched a statutory inquiry into the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on people from ethnic minorities in England, Scotland and Wales. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said its inquiry will help to develop "clear, evidence-based recommendations for ur

Shared Parenting Scotland has recorded an 81 per cent increase in enquiries by phone, text and email during April and May 2020, compared to the same period in 2019. The increase began during March 2020 as concern grew about COVID-19. Formal lockdown in Scotland and throughout the UK began in the las

New public health measures have come into force to help suppress coronavirus and prevent new cases being brought into Scotland. The range of measures, which will be broadly similar to those in other parts of the UK, will include:

A former Miss Hitler beauty pageant entrant and her ex-partner have been jailed for more than eight years for their membership of far-right group National Action (NA). Alice Cutter, 23, was jailed for three years and Mark Jones, 25, for five-and-a-half at Birmingham Crown Court.

Michael G. J. Upton, advocate, FSA Scot., MCIArb dates the first attested use in our system of certain words, including some denominal verbs liable to excite the grammatical prescriptivist. The extent of what may be known (or at least read) about the present-day world merely by tapping on your keybo

The Signet Library’s collection of maps and atlases is one of the largest in private hands in Scotland, from eighteenth-century to early twenty-first. The most delicate items are cared for by the National Library of Scotland and 280 of them have recently been digitised.

An Italian priest was detained for five hours after being caught bringing half a dozen mobile phones into a maximum-security prison known for holding mafia prisoners. Father Pierangelo Marchi was searched and interrogated after setting off a metal detector on his way into the Carinola prison near Na

A man who claimed that he was due payment for his share of the value of items from his late father’s estate that were not listed in the inventory of the estate has failed in his action for payment. Colin Carnegie Smith’s father, Andrew Carnegie, died on 10 February 1999 with no will

The family of a woman who died in a helicopter crash off Shetland has expressed dismay that the fatal accident inquiry into the incident will be conducted by video conferencing technology, The Times reports. Alan Rodgers, a lawyer for the family, said at a video hearing that Sarah Darnley's relative

Dundee’s legal community has been shocked and saddened by the sudden death, on May 27, of Iain Reid who was a highly respected and popular solicitor in the city for many years. Mr Reid, 70, was born in Glasgow but was educated at Grove Academy in Broughty Ferry where his father was the ministe