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James Wolffe QC The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC and Assistant chief constable Mark Williams today launched a new Joint Protocol on Domestic Abuse.

The Law Society of Scotland has published a guide to handling bullying and harassment in the workplace. The guide describes bullying “as the process whereby an employee is intimidated, mistreated or humiliated. It can be characterised by offensive, malicious or insulting behaviour which is designe

Mitchell Skilling and Laura Bisset

Eric Robertson Advocate Eric Robertson reflects on vital insights shared at the recent 2017 human trafficking seminar held in the Faculty of Advocates.

Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC ICAS has announced that Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC has been appointed chair of its Discipline Board.

At the High Court in Edinburgh today, 23 March 2017, Lord Uist sentenced Eric Rafferty to 15 years’ imprisonment after the accused was found guilty of repeated rape and sexual abuse of young girls. On sentencing, Lord Uist made the statement below in court. Eric Francis Rafferty, you were convicte

A lecturer who was removed from his position as a board member of Glasgow Clyde College and consequently disqualified for life from being a member of other boards has failed in a legal challenge to the legislative order removing almost the entire board from office for “mismanagement”. A judge in

Academically gifted students from less advantaged backgrounds in Scotland are set to benefit from a game-changing quarter of a million pound investment through the Lawscot Foundation. The Law Society of Scotland has donated the proceeds of the May 2016 sale of Legal Post to the foundation; a charity

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd The Lord Chief Justice has excoriated the Lord Chancellor over her failure to understand reforms that are being introduced to spare children from live cross-examination, The Times reports.

Scott Whyte Most will not have heard of it until recently, but the ruling on the discount rate for injured people has been long-awaited amongst those in the legal sector, writes Scott Whyte.

Pictured (L-R): Angela Stewart; Isobel Linder, executry assistant, Grigor & Young, Forres; and Peter Brash.

Pictured (L-R): Dr Olivia Giles OBE, Philippa Greer and Angela Grahame QC

Ross Anderson Proposed legislation on third party rights in contract is “a positive development”, the Faculty of Advocates has told MSPs.

A rapist who was not given the option of legal advice when interviewed by the police and whose application for judicial review of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission’s decision not to refer his case for a second time to the High Court of Justiciary on the basis of, inter alia, Cadder v H