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The statistics report criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2016-17 has been published today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician. The number of social work orders issued has been stable over the past six years, with the most recent figures showing a total of 20,500 in 2016-17. The vast

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Judge Ian Forrester QC Judge Ian Forrester QC has been elected president of the Franco-British Lawyers’ Society.

A cross-party group of members of the Scottish, UK and European parliaments who were seeking judicial review of the UK Government’s policy that the United Kingdom’s notification under Article 50(2) of the Treaty of the European Union will not be withdrawn have been refused permission to proceed.

A cyclist who was struck by a 4×4 towing a trailer while taking part in a bike race has been awarded £55,000 damages. Graeme Daly, who was participating in a 10-mile team time trial event in Perth and Kinross, was seeking £110,000 following the collision in 2015.

Professor Dame Sue Black One of Dundee’s most notorious killers has been “acquitted” 130 years after he was hanged for the murder of his wife.

James Wolffe QC Membership of the European Union helps the fight against crime in Scotland, the Lord Advocate has said.

Lord Rodger During 2018 Cloch Solicitors will continue its ongoing sponsorship of the popular biennial Lord Rodger Memorial Lecture at the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, and also the Lord Rodger Lecture during the University of Baltimore/Maryland US/UK International Comparative Law Program

A new video featuring one of the first Scottish law students to be awarded Lawscot Foundation funding and mentoring support has been launched. Eight students, who all started law degrees at Scottish universities in 2017, are the first to have received financial and mentoring support from the charity

English barristers are being trained to seem less pompous in an attempt to help them win wealthy foreign clients amid fears that Brexit will put a dent in their earnings. Training sessions at Middle Temple have seen members taught how to listen in a conversation rather than impress others with their

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Paul Kirkwood Solicitor and commercial mediator Paul Kirkwood asks whether Scotland should follow Ireland in introducing mediation legislation.

Pictured (L-R): Joseph Bowie, Mike Sinclair, Myra Scott, Jacqueline Law, Laura Browne, Matthew Wightman

A man accused of assaulting a nursing assisting whose plea of not guilty was accepted by the Crown on the basis that he was unable by reason of mental disorder to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct has had an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to impose a compulsion order dismissed. The S