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In an extended article for Scottish Legal News, Dean of Faculty Roddy Dunlop KC warns that corroboration has now been effectively abolished in the wake of HM Advocate v PK. scottishlegal.com/articles/t…
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More than 500 guests from across Scotland’s legal profession came together at the DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Central last night for the 23rd annual Scottish Legal Awards. scottishlegal.com/articles/s…
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Thompsons Solicitors has moved into larger office premises in Dundee. scottishlegal.com/articles/d…
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A mother of a child with additional support needs has lost an appeal against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland. scottishlegal.com/articles/u…
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An international student at the University of Edinburgh has scooped £1,000 after being named the winner of the inaugural edition of the Andrew Murray Signature Prize. scottishlegal.com/articles/p…
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A former nuclear engineer who swapped power stations for private client law has joined growing Glasgow firm Matheson Lawson. scottishlegal.com/articles/f…
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The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission is consulting on its approach to discharging new public interest powers. scottishlegal.com/articles/v…
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Scottish writers and creators are being urged to pay closer attention to how their intellectual property is protected as AI, digital distribution and growing demand for screen and audio adaptations continue to reshape the creative industries. scottishlegal.com/articles/s…
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Rights watch scottishlegal.com/articles/r…

Rights watch

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. A War That Targets Women: Sudan’s Silent Crisis

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Dining out: The Silver Darling sparkles in Aberdeen scottishlegal.com/articles/d…

Dining Out: The Silver Darling sparkles in Aberdeen

To the ‘silver city of the North’, as it was once styled, and home to Scotland’s other Faculty of Advocates. Aberdeen is in the economic doldrums following the downturn in the North Sea, the current...

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Review: Exploiting the elderly scottishlegal.com/articles/r…

Review: Exploiting the elderly

The Care Home Swindler, the reader is told, purports to be, and is, the "gripping inside story" of a care home owner who took vast sums of money from his residents, with "an expose of the terrifying...

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Teenager admits knife attack on 12-year-old at Aberdeen school scottishlegal.com/articles/t…

Teenager admits knife attack on 12-year-old at Aberdeen school

A 15-year-old girl has admitted carrying out a knife attack on a 12-year-old pupil at an Aberdeen school. The teenager, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to assault...

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Self-styled ‘king’ of woodland encampment deported to Ghana scottishlegal.com/articles/s…

Self-styled ‘king’ of woodland encampment deported to Ghana

A man who described himself as the ruler of a self-proclaimed African “kingdom” and spent months living in woodland in the Borders has been deported to Ghana. Kofi Offeh, who styled himself as King...

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Sheriff Appeal Court refuses appeal against rejection of initial writ in neighbour dispute scottishlegal.com/articles/s…

Sheriff Appeal Court refuses appeal against rejection of initial writ in neighbour dispute

The Sheriff Appeal Court has held that there is no competence for an appeal against a sheriff’s refusal to sign a warrant for an initial writ after a man attempted to challenge the refusal of his...

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Israel’s expansion of death penalty condemned scottishlegal.com/articles/i…

Israel’s expansion of death penalty condemned

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has condemned the adoption by the Israeli Knesset of a law extending the death penalty in a way that “has clear discriminatory effects...

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Starmer agrees to meet Chinook families after more than 30 years of unanswered questions scottishlegal.com/articles/s…

Starmer agrees to meet Chinook families after more than 30 years of unanswered questions

Families of the 29 people killed in the RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre have welcomed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's agreement to meet them, describing it as a “significant and long...

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And finally… Muphry’s law scottishlegal.com/articles/a…

And finally… Muphry’s law

A defamation lawsuit filed by FBI director Kash Patel sharply criticising The Atlantic’s journalistic standards contains numerous spelling and copy-editing errors. The 19-page complaint, lodged in...

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Macdonald Henderson advises on deal to data management firm scottishlegal.com/articles/m…

Macdonald Henderson advises on deal to data management firm

Macdonald Henderson has advised Paper Shredding Services (PSS), a Glasgow-based provider of secure, compliant collection and destruction services on its disposal to Restore Datashred, the UK data...

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Thomas Mitchell: Insurers benefit from compensation culture myth scottishlegal.com/articles/t…

Thomas Mitchell: Insurers benefit from compensation culture myth

The number of personal injury claims made following road traffic collisions is in sharp decline, writes Thomas Mitchell. Data from the government’s Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) revealed that only...

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In-house legal talent shines as rising stars crowned scottishlegal.com/articles/i…

In-house legal talent shines as rising stars crowned

A local government trainee and an early career solicitor working in finance have been crowned the Law Society of Scotland’s 2026 In-house Rising Stars. Selected from a strong field of 13 nominees,...

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