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Compensation payments are to be made to the families affected by the baby ashes scandal at crematoria in Fife. Parents were told that their babies were too ...

Rob Marrs, head of education and Policy at the Law Society of Scotland, explains why it's keen to hear from BAME students, trainees or NQs who have ...

Legal Hackers Scotland have brought together all the main players for a unique debate on the Independent Review of the Regulation of Legal Services in Scotland. Presentations ...

A former football coach who abused boys was today jailed for four years. Francis Cairney, 83, committed the offences against boys as young as 12 between 1965 ...

Pictured (L-R): Caroline Colliston, Suzanne Tanner, Sally Penni, Rachel Roberts DWF Edinburgh has hosted the Scottish launch of Women in the Law UK in a bid to ...

The Edinburgh Student Law Review (ESLR) is inviting submissions for its 2019 edition. The law review is a platform for undergraduate and postgraduate students from any university ...

A decision to prosecute a trainee solicitor for fraud even though she blew the whistle on her colleagues has been defended by officials. Emily Scott was struck ...

Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon has won £30,000 in damages from a tabloid newspaper that claimed he had performed with a band which "delights in Nazi symbols". ...

A man has admitted that he tried to rob a bank because he wanted to be sent to a prison rumoured to have the best food. William ...

A woman who claims she was raped by a former partner and that she was the victim of domestic abuse is suing her ex-boyfriend for damages in ...

An appeal by Glasgow City Council against a judge’s ruling that a damages action by relatives of some of the victims of the Glasgow bin lorry crash can proceed ...

Graham Bell QC, a former leading figure of the criminal bar has passed away at the age of 81. Mr Bell joined Faculty in 1980 and retired in ...

The case against the UK government’s bulk surveillance powers will be heard by the highest chamber of Europe’s human rights court. The Grand Chamber of the European ...

The President of the Supreme Court is to deliver a lecture in Edinburgh next month on the court's role as it celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. ...

Advocate Michael Upton M.C.I.Arb., of Hastie Stable, summarises a recent judgment from the Sheriff Appeal Court on establishing a duty of care for economic loss in a ...