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A new exhibition will give an insight into the history of some of Scotland's most famous criminals, the Press and Journal reports. Mugshots from the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives dating from the nineteenth century will be displayed as part of the crime writing festival Granite Noir.

A man caught on camera licking the doorbell outside a family home for three hours in the dead of night has been charged with criminal offences. Roberto Daniel Arroyo, 33, was filmed leaning his head against the front door intercom and licking the doorbell from different angles for three hours.

A man found guilty of rape who claimed that the evidence of the complainer’s distress, which was exhibited more than a day after the incident, was “too remote” to corroborate her account of lack of consent because she did not show any signs of distress in the intervening period has

Anderson Strathern has launched a commercially focused Brexit Group with director Neil Amner, former president of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and current board member of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, at its helm. The law firm was the first in Scotland to launch a dedicated Brexit unit in July 2016

Harper Macleod has recruited Fiona Neilson, one of the Highlands' best known corporate and commercial lawyers, as a partner in its Inverness office. Ms Neilson, for many years a partner at Ledingham Chalmers, has joined the team advising businesses and organisations of all sizes on all of their corp

Specialist law firm Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP (RTALS), which provides legal services as Motorcycle Law Scotland, Cycle Law Scotland and Pedestrian Law Scotland, has further consolidated its operations in the West of Scotland with a key new hire and a new office in Glasgow. The company

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An immigration ‘cliff edge’ would be a real problem for the many sectors which currently rely on large numbers of EU migrant workers. Transitional arrangements are essential to ensure ‘business as usual’ is possible for many of our clients post-Brexit, writes Steven Dunn 

Donald Findlay QC has narrated an audio book on the life of Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel, The Herald reports. Manuel was executed in 1958 at the age of 31 following one of the most famous trials in Scottish legal history and a killing spree that saw at least eight people die.

Legislation is to be brought forward this year requiring abattoirs to install CCTV in all areas where live animals are present. The proposal was backed by the vast majority of respondents to a recent consultation carried out by the Scottish government. 

Magistrates are calling for their retirement age to be raised from 70 to 75 to stem the judicial recruitment crisis, The Times reports. Over the past 10 years, the number of magistrates has halved from roughly 15,000.

Magic Circle firms have overtaken US firms in the UK league table for mergers and acquisitions, The Times reports. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, with 60 deals worth $144.4 billion over the past year, led the latest Mergermarket league table compiled for Legal Week, followed by Slaughter and May, H

A motorist was arrested on New Year's Day after a roadside drug test showed a positive result – for all five detectable drugs. The 31-year-old man showed a positive result for the ingestion of cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, cannabis and amphetamines.

A teenager who was sentenced to 18 months’ detention after being convicted of assault has had his custodial sentence quashed following an appeal. The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court imposed a community payback order (CPO) after ruling that the sheriff erred in his approach to s

The Scottish government has admitted it failed to follow the correct procedures in an investigation into Alex Salmond over allegations of sexual harassment and has had its findings struck down by Lord Pentland in the Court of Session. The former first minister crowdfunded £100,000 for his case