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Mary Sharpe The number of people in Scotland aged 17 or under accused of sexual offending rose from 350 to 422 between 2011/12 and 2015/16, an increase of 21 per cent, an education summit has heard.

The McKinstry Company has this month revealed an expansion to its headquarters at Queen’s Court House, 39 Sandgate, Ayr, providing state of the art ground floor accommodation to clients in a high street location. The newly refurbished ground floor area of the Grade A listed building at Queen’s C

Home Secretary Amber Rudd A loyalist paramilitary group closely linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) has applied to Home Secretary Amber Rudd for deproscription.

A man convicted of sexual offences who objected to the admission of social media messages to one of the complainers has failed in an appeal against his conviction. The appellant claimed that the Facebook messages were “irrelevant” to the proof of the alleged assaults, but the Appeal Court of the

Robin Corbett Ayrshire firm The McKinstry Company has welcomed Robin Corbett to its property department.

Karen Gibbons Harper Macleod has added to its family law team with the recruitment of partner Karen Gibbons, who will be based in the firm's Edinburgh office at Citypoint, Haymarket.

Overgrown hedges remain an issue in Scotland because legislation is not always being used as effectively as it could be, according to a Holyrood committee. The Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee has set out key recommendations in a report following its examination of

Philip Gormley The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) is investigating further allegations of gross misconduct about the Chief Constable, Philip Gormley.

Eric Gilligan Eric Gilligan discusses a recent case on workplace monitoring and the Prime Minister's threats to withdraw from the ECHR.

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Edinburgh Napier Law Clinic is reopening on Tuesday, 26th September. This term the clinic is welcoming new managing directors Katie Adams and Craig Menezes who are doing an excellent job with the expansion of the clinic.

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Two men facing drugs trafficking charges who challenged the admissibility of evidence of the recovery of a car key obtained from a police search of a hotel room have had their appeal rejected. It was argued that since the search had been found to be “unlawful” the judge had been wrong to allow t