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Michael Matheson A pilot scheme aimed at improving the support available for complainers and victims of rape as they engage with the justice system will be extended, Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has announced.

Acid has been classified as a "highly dangerous weapon" in sentencing guidelines in a bid to crack down on acid attacks, The Brief reports. The classification appears in the latest advice from the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, but was absent from a draft published in October.

Professor Abbe Brown 9 March 2018

A former prosecutor has described his installation as sheriff in Greenock as a “tremendous privilege”, the Greenock Telegraph reports. Andrew McIntyre took up the role after a 16-year career at the Crown Office, which saw him specialise in trafficking cases.

A solicitor against whom a company sought damages for careless misrepresentation has had her appeal unanimously allowed by justices in the Supreme Court, who stated there is no authority for finding an assumption of responsibility for a careless misrepresentation about a fact wholly within the knowl

A man who was admonished after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of cocaine has failed in appeal against a sheriff’s decision to make a confiscation order of more than £270,000. The appellant challenged the sheriff’s decision to make the order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

The Supreme Court will hear a landmark challenge to "attempts by the UK government to conceal the role of a top MI6 officer in renditions to Libya". Senior judges have given permission for a “leapfrog” appeal by two victims of rendition and torture direct to the UK’s highest court. The case wi

Alistair Morris Alistair Morris, the former chief executive of collapsed law firm Pagan Osborne has resigned from the Scottish government’s review of legal services, The Herald reports.

Eleanor Mannion MacRoberts has added to its employment law team with the arrival of senior associate Eleanor Mannion.

Lord Pentland The Scottish Law Commission’s has published its annual report outlining progress on the commission’s law reform work during 2017.

The Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) has launched a public consultation as part of its review into how well Simple Procedure Rules are working. The consultation runs until 31 May 2018. Simple Procedure has been in place since November 2016 and the council’s Access to Justice Committee is curr

Kevin Clancy Kevin Clancy discusses the possible implications of a recent Supreme Court judgment on prohibition notices.

Over a thousand criminal lawyers in England and Wales have experienced failures of disclosure in the past year, according to a BBC investigation. The BBC conducted a survey in conjunction with the Criminal Law Solicitors' Association (CLSA), the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) and the London Criminal