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Legislation raising the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland to 12 years old has been commenced with effect from today. The Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 was approved by MSPs in May following calls from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for the age to be raised f

A delegation of Chinese lawyers were welcomed to Harper Macleod's Edinburgh office as part of a two-week trip to learn more about UK immigration law.

The Law Society of Scotland has paid tribute to former president Philip Dry, who passed away on the weekend. Mr Dry joined the Council of the Law Society in 1991 and served as president from 1998 to 1999.

DWF's Scottish corporate team have advised the majority shareholders of Partick Thistle Football Club Limited on the sale of around 55 per cent of the shares in Partick Thistle to Three Black Cats Limited, a company wholly owned by Partick Thistle fan and Euromillions winner, Colin Weir. Paul Pignat

Delays in the planning system will be put in the spotlight by Scotland’s senior judge and a leading planning QC at a seminar. Lord Carloway, the Lord President, is to examine the court’s approach to delays at the event being held by the Faculty of Advocates’ Scottish Planning, Loca

Ewan McIntyre is a consultant to Burness Paull and expert in professional negligence and financial services litigation with over 25 years’ experience. He is currently enjoying a secondment with Racine, one of the main independent French law firms, in its Lyon office. The tales of daily life in

Expert contributors will help prepare practitioners for what they need to know about Joint Investigative Interviews (JIIs) for courts, children's hearings, child protection and other professional practice at a conference in January. The JII 2020 Masterclass conference, addressing a current and impor

Gavin Buchan discusses how the rise of new finance possibilities is a positive development for all. When anything crashes and burns, there is often something that rises from the ashes. Since the economy emerged from the other side of the global financial crisis, that something has been a range

Clerk of the Faculty Advocates Richard Pugh is pictured (back left) with law students from Dundee University on a visit to Parliament House, Edinburgh.

A jury has found Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield not guilty of the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 football fans in the 1989 stadium disaster. Mr Duckenfield, now 75, was in charge of the 1989 FA Cup semi-final during which 96 football fans were crushed to death. A two-year inques

A university is facing criminal action for selling bodies and body parts donated for research purposes over the course of a decade. The Centre for Body Donations at Paris Descartes University has admitted mistreating thousands of cadavers, keeping them in rat-infested and overheated rooms.

A former coach of Celtic Boys Club who was jailed after being found guilty of a series of historical child sex offences has had his conviction on one of the charges quashed after prosecutors failed to disclose evidence of the complainer’s criminal record. The Appeal Court of the High Cour

Concerns have been expressed by the Faculty of Advocates that planned legislation designed to ensure the voice of the child is heard in court could be “retrogressive”. In response to a call by the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee for comments on the Children (Scotland)

Lord Brodie will chair the public inquiry into issues at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus in Glasgow and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP) in Edinburgh. Lord Brodie, a Senator of the College of Justice, has been appointed to chair the inquiry by Health Sec

The most recent quarterly house price statistics published by Registers of Scotland earlier this month, covering the period from July to September 2019, shows that the average selling price of a residential property in Scotland was £185,058, a 1.9 per cent increase compared to the previous yea