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US star lawyer David Rudolf, who featured in the popular Netflix documentary The Staircase, has urged Scotland not to scrap its historic ‘not proven’ verdict ahead of a new speaking tour focused on problems with the criminal justice system in the US and abroad. In an interview with Scott

Alan McIntosh writes on problem debt ahead of tomorrow's meeting of the Economy, Energy and Fair Work Committee. The decision by the Scottish government this week to reject the evidence of Citizen Advice Scotland, Money Advice Scotland, Stepchange and Govan Law Centre over the evidence of Esther McV

Frances Ennis welcomes Glasgow Licensing Board's new pilot scheme. Glasgow's night-time economy is said to generate around £2.16 billion a year and supports 16,600 jobs. That is despite, not because of, what has sometimes been seen by trade and practitioners alike as a licensing system which d

A solicitor who sent a foul-mouthed rant to the Solicitors Regulation Authority has been banned from the profession. Luke Stephen Venton, 39, had three previous convictions from 2014-2017, two of which he failed to inform the SRA of. He has not practised since November 2015, the Gazette reports.

The celebrated US attorney, David Rudolf, has thanked the Scottish Criminal Bar Association for a “great” evening of discussion. Mr Rudolf was the guest at a special event in Glasgow and gave a talk about the case of Michael Peterson, a novelist in North Carolina who was accused of murde

Sixty-one new solicitors were admitted to the profession at the Law Society of Scotland’s latest Admission Ceremony which took place on Friday at the Signet Library in Edinburgh.

A man who laughed and swore at police officers who couldn't find drugs on him was later found to be hiding a bag of cocaine – in his penis. James Mason, 21, told officers "f**k off, you're not searching me" and then, after a search, "ha ha, told you I had f**k all on us, you mugs".

The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC has welcomed the Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland report on the prosecution of young people and has instructed work in response to its recommendations. Mr Wolffe said: “Earlier this year I commissioned the Inspectorate of Prosecution to revie

A tribunal is to address the question of whether veganism qualifies as a "philosophical belief" in a landmark legal case. Jordi Casamitjana said he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after revealing it invested pension funds in animal testing firms.

In the second of a two-part series, Glasgow University Diploma student Poppy Mulligan discusses her Masters degree in the US and her motivations for working on death row. Read the first part here. Masters at Cornell University