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Lord Carloway The Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA) has responded to comments made by the Lord Justice Clerk that counsel's questioning of complainers should not be “protracted, vexatious or unfeeling” in a judgment from a case heard last year.

Cat McLean An English court judgement could pave the way for Scottish companies to win more compensation from banks who mis-sold interest rate hedging products(IRHPs), law firm MBM Commercial has said.

Caroline Levesque-Bartlett Nobody in Scotland has faced jail for failure to pay their TV license in at least half a decade, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

A “prominent” professional sportsman has been granted an injunction preventing a newspaper publishing a “kiss and tell” story about a sexual relationship he had with another woman before he was married. A judge at the High Court in London granted the application by the un-named married coupl

Gordon Bathgate Allan McDougall Solicitors is up for a total of five awards in the Law Awards of Scotland 2015.

Anne Henderson (left) and Colin Henderson

Ian Fraser Pagan Osborne has announced that Ian Fraser, one of its commercial and business services partners, has become a director and shareholder in the company.

Richard Lochhead Growing genetically modified (GM) crops will not be permitted in Scotland, Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead has announced.

A judge has ruled role-model status is insufficient justification for revealing the identity of a celebrity who had an affair because in as godless a society as Britain only the puritanical now believe celebrities' sexual escapades should be made public. The identities of the ex-lovers were widely d

Andrew John Robertson, managing director of McClure Solicitors McClure Solicitors has teamed up with an Edinburgh charity to produce wills for free.

About one in ten child protection orders (CPOs) handed out in Scotland have come from Dundee over the past two years according to new figures The Courier reports. The Scottish Children's Reporter Administration provided that in 2013/14, 79 children were the subjects of CPOs, while in 2014/15, 59 wer

Pictured: Liina Tulk and Cat MacLean MBM Commercial has been nominated for four awards in the upcoming Law Awards of Scotland.

James Dornan MSP A Scottish Parliament committee has opened consultation on a bill to extend the boundaries of the Pentland Hills Regional Park.

Alison McInnes MSP Police officers in Fife have come under criticism after it emerged they briefed schoolkids on stop and search with no fixed script and only one page of notes.

Pictured from left: Alan Roughead, Brian Jackson, Catherine Greig, Morag Graham The staff at MacRoberts LLP's Glasgow Office are no doubt feeling a little fitter today after accepting a challenge to climb the stairs to their desk rather than taking the lift throughout the month of June.