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Michael Matheson Views are being sought on the best way to spare child witnesses from having to give evidence during criminal trials.

A paedophile convicted of two charges of rape who was given an Order for Lifelong Restriction has failed in an appeal against his sentence after appeal judges rejected his claim that the punishment imposed was “excessive and disproportionate”. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ref

The Lord President has claimed that a register of interests for the judiciary would deter lawyers from joining the bench and would help disgruntled litigants exact revenge after losing cases. Lord Carloway told MSPs on Holyrood’s Petitions Committee that the creation of a register would b

Permission to appeal applications considered by the Supreme Court have fallen by 11 per cent over the past year according to the court’s annual report, laid before Parliament this week. The number of applications for permission to appeal considered by the justices decreased by 11 per cent to 192.

James Wolffe QC The police and courts will have greater powers to protect the public from perpetrators of human trafficking and exploitation from today.

Megan Briggs Megan Briggs comments on Morrisons' savvy reaction to a shopkeeper's pun in the wake of his David and Goliath encounter with a rival supermarket

Scotland has the chance to use a conference in Edinburgh to firmly establish the country as a seat of international arbitration, according to a leading world figure in alternative dispute resolution.

Pictured: Keeper of the Advocates Library, Mungo Bovey, QC (second left) with Lord Pentland (fourth from right) and his guests

Chris West Gillespie Macandrew LLP has reported an 8.4 per cent increase in turnover, worth £0.88 million in growth over the year.

Professor Lorne Crerar Professor Lorne Crerar, chairman and co-founder of Harper Macleod (pictured), has been appointed to a trio of roles by the Scottish government.

A man found guilty of sexually assaulting his wife “to her severe injury and to the danger of her life” has successfully appealed against his conviction based on the existence and significance of evidence which was not heard at the original proceedings. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Just

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Aileen Campbell Following a public consultation, the Scottish government intends to introduce legislation for a soft opt out system of organ and tissue donation.

Donald Cameron Advocate Donald Cameron has been put in charge of election policy for the Scottish Conservatives, The Herald reports.

Sixty per cent of judges in the UK do not feel respected by the media while the figure is 40 per cent in relation to government - the highest in Western Europe. The results come from a survey by the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ). The organisation also measured judiciaries aga