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Deciding to pursue higher education is a big step, and finding the most suitable institution can be challenging. At Edinburgh Napier’s Business School, students immerse themselves in an environment beyond traditional academic settings. As a testament to its excellence*, let’s…
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The Centre for Child and Family Law and Policy has been awarded £2000 from the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, in order to offer our students mini-internships in the field of Family Law during the academic year 2023-24 (the Centre…
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Edinburgh Napier University Professor and Head of Law, Richard Whitecross, has been awarded the prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Spring 2023 small research grant for his upcoming project: Domestic abuse and contact cases: understanding the barriers to civil legal…
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Michael Kerr and Lewis Hay have become the first Edinburgh Napier University students to win the Lord Jones Mooting Competition, an annual inter-varsity event that is hosted by the University of Dundee Mooting Society. The competition aims to promote and…
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Although it is recognised by the Scottish legislative system that domestic abuse adversely affects children, little is known about how child contact proceedings work in practice and the extent to which the treatment of domestic abuse in the civil courts…
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A second-year law student at Edinburgh Napier University has won a competition organised by the Law Society of Scotland, with his argument that an internationally recognised definition of ‘ecocide’ could provide an effective legal instrument in helping address climate change….
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Dr Richard Whitecross, Head of Law at Edinburgh Napier University, writes on the challenge of domestic abuse under lockdown and provides signposting to sources of support. Over the past three months, the impact of coronavirus on the NHS, on jobs…
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A new report funded by and produced for the Scottish Parliament Justice Committee critically analyses a new Bill, Children (Scotland) Bill 2019, to reform Scottish family law court cases. The report, written by Dr Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane from here in…
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