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Law Society of Scotland staff hit the high street yesterday when they took over a charity shop in the heart of Edinburgh to raise money for the Nepal earthquake disaster. Six Society employees took over the Mary Portas Living and Giving shop for Save the Children after spending a month raising

Lord Malcolm The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has clarified inaccurate media reports about the lack of availability of legal assistance in double jeopardy cases.

New figures for the three month period between March and May 2015 have revealed that the housing market in East Central Scotland is shifting in favour of the seller as fewer new homes are brought to sale compared with the same period last year. According to estate agents ESPC, while the data shows a

Kavita Chetty, SHRC The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has teamed up with the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) and NHS Health Scotland to launch a series of short films about human rights.

An independent evaluation of new laws brought in two years ago to tackle offensive behaviour at football matches has been published today. Since June 2013, researchers at the University of Stirling and ScotCen Social Research have been carrying out an extensive evaluation of the Offensive Behaviour

Scottish Legal Training held their latest masterclass in Edinburgh on Monday. This time it was the turn of some of the country's finest family lawyers to present talks on some of the current issues in their field. The event was chaired by Shona Smith head of family law at Balfour and Manson LLP.

Members of Faculty with the Declaration of Arbroath A delegation from the Faculty of Advocates found a historic reminder of home on a visit to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

The Edinburgh Student Law Review (ESLR) has recently celebrated the launch of its annual main edition, as well as a special edition consisting of papers from the Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2014. At the launch party, David Welsh, a senior solicitor at Turcan Connell and tutor on the Diplom

A lawyer whose towering hedge blocked the sun from a neighbouring property has been told by the Scottish government to cut it down to less than a third of its original height. Jonathan Heaney, 42, had initially refused to slash his 15 metre cypress trees, saying they pre-dated the construction of th

Police officers in Scotland are solving fewer crimes on average, a think tank has claimed. Reform Scotland's new report, The Thinning Blue Line, shows that the number of crimes being cleared up per FTE police officer fell from 12 in 2006/07 to 8 in 2013/14.

Justice secretary Michael Matheson MSP Almost £640,000 in extra public funding is to be awarded to twelve community projects working to tackle women's offending in Scotland.

Scottish Water has reappointed CMS Cameron McKenna and DLA Piper to their commercial legal team following a public procurement exercise. The publicly-owned water company has also appointed BLM and Anderson Strathern for litigation advice, and Lindsays and Anderson Strathern for conveyancing.

Prime Minister David Cameron The UK government could restrict the voting rights of Scottish MPs through a change to Parliament's standing orders, according to a senior government source.

Law Society president Andrew Caplen The Law Society has expressed concern about the survival of the justice system in England and Wales as the government moves ahead with plans to reduce fees for solicitors in criminal legal aid cases.

Burness Paull has been named "Exemplary Employer of Choice" at The cHeRries Awards 2015, which recognises excellence in human resources, recruitment and training in the north east of Scotland. The judges were impressed by “Burness Paull’s ability to create a new and attractive employment culture