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Lady Scott At the High Court in Glasgow today, Lady Scott discharged Daniel Cieslak absolutely after the accused pled guilty to the rape of a 12-year-old girl.On making the order for absolute discharge, Lady Scott made the following statement below in court.

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed two new Senators to the College of Justice on the recommendation of the First Minister. Sheriff Paul Arthurson QC and Alan Summers QC will sit as judges in the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary.

Dundee Sheriff Court (Credit: Google Street View) A paralegal who embezzled more than £40,000 from the estate of her ex-husband’s great aunt has been sentenced to 13 months in jail.

The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) has announced Dame Anne Begg DBE (pictured right) as a patron and the promotion of third-year law student Sophie Mills to the position of student director. Miss Mills becomes the project’s seventh student director, succeeding Louise Sloan who is graduating and intend

Julie McKinlay Advocates were to the fore in appointments by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS).

Professor Jane Mair triumphed in a light-hearted bake-off competition between University of Glasgow Law School researchers this week.

Lord Neuberger Human rights have been a “new toy” for lawyers which they have favoured over the common law, the President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger has said.

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David Strang An inmate at one Scottish prison lived in a tent for eight weeks after his release and deliberately reoffended in the hopes of being caught and imprisoned again so he would have “ a dry bed, warmth and shelter”, a new report states.

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A punter who placed a £100 bet at odds of 2500/1 for “Rangers to be relegated” from the Scottish Premier League has had his £250,000 claim against the bookmakers rejected after the company refused to pay out. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the simple, natural and ordinary meaning o

Karolina Szumko A woman has been spared jail for a racist attack on a bouncer because a judge said she was “a lady”, The Times reports.

Jennifer Young Ledingham Chalmers has announced seven promotions across its Inverness, Aberdeen and Stirling offices.

George Frier Shepherd and Wedderburn has acted for AIM listed Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group in arranging a five-year revolving credit facility with HSBC Bank plc. Almost contemporaneously, it acted for the company in its latest acquisitions in Australia and Norway.