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David Strang Fears over violence at Polmont Young Offenders Institution has limited social activities there according to a new report.

A study of Sir Walter Scott’s The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border has been written by Alistair Johnson of the Advocates’ Library and published on the website of the Faculty of Advocates. The work explains how the Minstrelsy, three volumes of collected folk ballads first published in 1802 and 1

A man who claimed he didn’t receive a big enough discount on his sentence after being jailed for admitting an assault to severe injury charge has had an appeal dismissed. The Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal by Ernest Findlay, who was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment after being give

Philip Rodney

Michael Kelly Michael Kelly, a partner at MacRoberts LLP, is the subject of this week's SLN Spotlight.

Kenny Crawford The latest publication of the UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in June 2016 was £143,282 an increase of 4.6 per cent on the previous year and an increase of 2.7 per cent when compared to the previous month.

The Judicial Institute for Scotland has released its annual report for the year to 31 March 2016. The Annual Report 2015/16 looks at, among other things, educational strategy, and technology enhanced learning.

Sean Maher

Macdonald Henderson has ranked as one of the top three corporate law firms in Scotland in terms of number of MBOs (management buyouts) completed in 2015/16. The results of the deal table, which is published by Scottish Business Insider in its 2016 Yearbook, caps a busy year in which the firm complet

A 55 year old man has been jailed after being found guilty of sexually abusing three young girls. At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, Duncan Mulholland was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for abusing the girls who were aged between 7 and 15 .The of

Alan Sheeley Pinsent Masons has warned that police budgets risk being swallowed up by law firms unless work given to them to seize fraudsters' assets is done either on a “no win no fee” basis or according to competitive tendering.

Four legal claims worth tens of thousands of pounds each arising out health care products for the treatment of urinary incontinence have been remitted to the Court of Session. A judge allowed the actions to be remitted from the sheriff court after ruling that “cause had been shown” as there was

The Law Society of Scotland has successfully petitioned the Court of Session to appoint a Judicial Factor over Paisley legal practice, Robertson and Ross Solicitors Limited. Morna Grandison, director of interventions at the Law Society, was appointed by the court as the interim Judicial Factor. As a

Derek Mackay The Scottish government has asked the UK government to reform laws allowing for a Scottish business vehicle to be used in criminal activity.

Alan Strain Davidson Chalmers has announced the appointment of Alan Strain as partner and Jenny Davies as a senior solicitor.