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Tickets for a superb evening of food and dance in aid of charities fighting slavery and trafficking are going fast – the deadline for booking your place at the Tumbling Lassie Ball is this Sunday, 15 January! The Ball, preceded by a free seminar, will return for its second year on Saturday 28 Janu

Chelmsford Crown Court (Photo credit: Google Street View) A judge who responded in kind to a defendant who called her a c*** has been cleared of misconduct.

A mother found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to three months' imprisonment after breaching court orders that she facilitate contact between her son and the child’s father has successfully appealed against her conviction and sentence. The Inner House of the Court of Session ruled that t

Michael Matheson The proportion of drivers stopped by police who were found to be over the limit during the festive period has risen from 2.8 per cent to 3.3 per cent in a year.

Elisabeth Scharfenberg, a member of the German parliament, said local authorities could pay for sex workers, who are increasingly being asked to work in the country's care homes. Sex work, while legal in Germany, is regulated by a strict legislative framework.

Court of Session judges have commented on poor management of child contact and residence issues in a case in which a mother’s conviction for contempt of court was overturned.Lord Glennie stated in his leading judgment: “The passage of time can have irremediable consequences for relations between

John Sturrock QC I was delighted to read my friend Angela Grahame QC’s article recently. As the recently elected Vice Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Angela is bringing a freshness and agility of thought to her work in that role. And, as a regular tweeter, she is also bringing a contemporary joi

Oliver Mundell The number of sick days taken by Crown Office staff has soared by 20 per cent over the past six years, new figures show.

For some years, the Scottish Council of Law Reporting (SCLR) has been engaged in an exercise to digitise the historic corpus of law reports of Scottish cases and to make these as widely and freely available as possible. As well as a source of material for practicing lawyers they form a huge body of

A sheriff has called for defibrillators to be installed in police stations across Scotland after a man died of a heart attack in custody. The recommendations came following a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Kevin McGurty, 43, who died at Annan Police Station in Dumfries and Galloway i

A bicycle courier has won an employment tribunal case that could have wider implications for employers in the "gig economy". Judge Jo Wade in the London Central Employment Tribunal ruled that Maggie Dewhurst, a courier with logistics firm City Sprint, should be classified as a "worker" rather than a

Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha Lawyers for two indigenous groups in Namibia have brought a lawsuit against Germany in New York seeking reparations for genocide.

A golfer who was seriously injured when he fell into a manhole on a course has had an action for damages against his fellow club members dismissed. Colin Taylor sued the eight members of the executive board at Colville Park Golf Club in Motherwell, not as representatives of the club, but in a person

At Airdrie Sheriff Court today, Sheriff Petra Collins sentenced Donald Craig to two years’ imprisonment for breaches of health and safety law after his company Craig Services & Access Limited hired out an unsafe cherry picker which buckled while it was in use, causing the death of Gary Currie.

Fergus Ewing The process of nominating candidates opens today, with Scotland’s 16,000 crofters able to put forward candidates or stand themselves for election to the Crofting Commission’s board as commissioners.