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The Crown has successfully challenged the sentence of detention in a young offenders’ institution imposed on a 16-year-old boy convicted of sex offences. The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court upheld the Lord Advocate’s submission, which was adopted by the responde

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There is no basis for the belief that abolishing the ‘not proven’ verdict in Scots law will lead to more people being found guilty of rape and could in fact result in "rogue convictions", leading criminal lawyers have told Scottish Legal News. Responding to Gordon Jackson QC’s sugg

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Proposed legislation to improve the planning system in Scotland must be clearer to ensure that it delivers the planning development programme that Scottish communities deserve. In a briefing issued to MSPs, the Law Society of Scotland has welcomed proposals to increase community engagement in the pl

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DWF has appointed Kevin McGlone as a partner to its expanding real estate team in Scotland. Mr McGlone joins from Brodies where he spent 14 years as a partner and specialises in the buying, selling and leasing of trading businesses in the hotel, hospitality and healthcare sectors.

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On 3 June 2019 Linda and Stuart Allan posted the following on Twitter: “Katie we do not know if you left us a year ago today or a year ago tomorrow. We only know you are gone and our hearts are broken. You are loved. You are missed every day. Rest well our beautiful girl.”

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A customer at a Mexican fast food chain called the police after being informed they were out of taco shells. Although police agreed that the lack of both hard and soft taco shells was "truly a travesty", they said it was out of their control.

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The latest quarterly house price statistics from the Registers of Scotland (ROS), covering the period from 1st January to 31st March 2019, revealed the average selling price in Scotland was £174,317, a 0.3 per cent decrease on the same period last year. Sales volume was up 3.7 per cent year-on

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