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A former Police Scotland officer who subjected three former partners to a campaign of controlling, violent and sexual abuse has been jailed. Christopher Ferguson was found guilty of nine charges on June 13 following a trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court.

Increasing deadly attacks against Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine State bear a "terrifying resemblance" to the atrocities of August 2017, Amnesty International said ahead of the seventh anniversary of the crisis. “As the seven-year anniversary of the Rohingya crisis nears, the horri

Turcan Connell partner Grierson Dunlop has been awarded associateship of the Royal Agricultural Societies by the Council for Awards of Royal Agricultural Societies, recognising his contribution to agricultural and land-based industries. The council acts on behalf of the UK’s four national Roya

Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been dismissed by the morality police for failing to grow beards. The Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue fired the beardless men – who are among 13,000 people who have been detained for immoral acts

Garden Stirling Burnet has opened an office in Leith.

Morton Fraser MacRoberts has been awarded bronze in the TIDE Awards, which evaluates an organisation’s performance in diversity and inclusion. The award highlights the firm’s achievements in diversity, inclusion and belonging across eight key areas: workforce, strategy and planning, lead

Four lawyers from Clyde & Co’s Scottish offices have praised the firm’s global exchange initiative, after spending a week at its international offices in Boston, Doha, Melbourne and Sydney. Out of 50 lawyers to successfully secure spaces on the 2024 programme – open to associat

An appeal by a 99-year-old woman convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 10,505 people when she was secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp has been rejected. Germany's Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a

A man has been jailed for 11 years after trying to murder his lawyer in a knife attack in his office. Muhammad Shoaib, 71, suffered a stab wound to his chest and a wound to his right hand during the violent incident in Glasgow and feared he was about to die.

A violent rapist who began abusing three young children when he was just 12-years-old has been jailed. Alasdair Craig was found guilty of all 11 charges – including rape – on July 3 following a trial at the High Court in Kilmarnock.

Secret court hearings are in need of reform, a former lord chief justice has said. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd said that the single justice procedure (SJP) is unfair.

Health Secretary Neil Gray has said that the level of drug misuse deaths remains “hugely concerning”, as the latest statistics showed an increase of 121 deaths compared with 2022. Figures published by National Records of Scotland found that 1,172 people died due to drug misuse in 2023.

ESPC has conducted a study into the property market across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders, to uncover the locations that buyers move from, and where they most frequently move to. The report looks back at the property market from January 2019 to July 2024, considering where buyers are

Burges Salmon has advised Clean Energy Cap Ltd (CEC), a private-wire renewable energy company, on an investment from True Green Capital Management LLC (TGC), a renewable energy-focused private equity firm. An Edinburgh-based Burges Salmon corporate energy M&A team advised on the transaction, led

A solicitor who embezzled from a Grangemouth law firm has been struck from the roll. Leo McGarvey, 56, was jailed for 10 months at Falkirk Sheriff Court in December 2022 after admitting that he embezzled £7,000 from RGM Solicitors in La Porte Precinct.