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A programme intended to change the behaviour of domestic abuse perpetrators is being rolled out to six more local authorities. The Caledonian System is a court-mandated scheme to combat domestic abuse through the rehabilitation of male perpetrators and "works to improve the lives of the women a

TLT has advised Blackfinch Investments on its acquisition of a 6.4MW 1ROC accredited wind project in Scotland, and Santander, which provided project finance to part-fund the deal. The TLT team was led by Adam Kean and Nick Rains in corporate and Gary Roscoe and Emily Huish in banking, alongside Rich

Dentons has appointed Amanda Jones to the new role of women's advancement director. Ms Jones is an employment partner based in Edinburgh. She joined Dentons in October 2017 as part of its merger with Maclay Murray & Spens where she was a board member and head of the employment practice

An educational initiative teaching school pupils oral advocacy skills is looking for legal tutors. The School Mock Court Case Project runs an educational programme through an inter-school competition that sees school children argue a mock trial in a real court in front of a sheriff.

The Law Society of England and Wales has succeeded in overturning cuts to legal aid payments for document-heavy Crown Court cases. In a strongly-worded judgment, Lord Justice Leggatt and Mrs Justice Carr DBE quashed changes to the Litigators Graduated Fee

A man called the police after a kangaroo crashed through his living room window in the middle of the night and upended his home. Instead of being arrested for breaking and entering, the young roo was bundled away by animal rescuers and taken to a nearby shelter.

Scottish Labour has called for a full governmental review of the use of remand after a new analysis by the party revealed that prisoners are more likely to die in prison if they are on remand. The new analysis highlights that remand prisoners – the majority of whom are awaiting trial, and thus

The number of debt decrees registered against Scottish businesses rose sharply during the first half of 2018, according to figures released today by Registry Trust. Registry Trust is the non-profit organisation which collects decree and judgment information from jurisdictions across the British Isle

Scotland's commercial property sector stands to benefit from proposed reforms to business rates – on which the Scottish government is currently consulting, writes Alan Cook. The Scottish government's consultation paper sets out its proposed approach to various aspects of the Barclay Review of

Bobby Lindsay has been appointed a lecturer in private law at the University of Glasgow.  Mr Lindsay studied for his LLB at Glasgow and for the BCL at the University of Oxford, before returning to Glasgow to complete his PhD.

Edinburgh Law School PhD candidate Álvaro García Martínez has been awarded the prize of "Laureate of the Arbitration Academy 2018". Mr Martínez was awarded the prize for his essay on the topic “Is there a need to reform the New York Convention of 10 June 1958?&rdquo

Via@LawSocPresident: The heads of the Law Societies of England and Wales; Scotland; and Northern Ireland are pictured above in a photo celebrating the first time in which the presidents of the UK's three solicitor bodies are women.  

A specialist court pilot for handling financial disputes in divorces will be expanded across England and Wales after its initial success, The Brief reports. Sir James Mundy, the outgoing senior family judge in England and Wales, announced that the pilot would be tested in nine more regions

Intellectual property firm Marks & Clerk has been named an official corporate sponsor of Banchory Beer Festival in Deeside for the second year running as the event continues to go from strength to strength. The bi-annual event, held at the Deeside Rugby Club Pitches in Banchory, is a festival of