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A website for the Scottish Sentencing Council (SSC) has been launched, providing background information on the new body ahead of its establishment in October. Visitors will be able to keep up to date with plans for the SSC's creation through its dedicated website, www.scottishsentencingcouncil.org.u

A legal challenge over the appointment of Susan O’Brien QC to chair an inquiry into historic child abuse in Scotland has been refused by a judge in the Court of Session. The Congregation of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth and The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul sought judicial review of

  Dr Margaret Bochel

Andrew Caplen, president of the Law Society Legal firms across England and Wales are starting to refuse work funded by legal aid in protest of an 8.75 per cent cut to legal aid fees for criminal cases.

Eileen Matthew Staff from Tayside legal firm Miller Hendry have raised more than £8,000 for charity through their sponsored walk on Saturday 13 June.

Martin Darroch Harper Macleod has opened two new sites this week after making a significant investment to support its continued growth.

GLC'S principal solicitor, Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre has established a Public Interest Litigation Unit (PILU) which aims to offer a new service to advice agencies, charities, community groups and campaigners across Scotland.

Women and men across Scotland who suspect their partner has an abusive background may now have that information disclosed to them, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. Police Scotland’s "Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse" in Scotland will be rolled out across the country later this yea

David Menzies

Former MP Mark Lazarowicz has returned to the law and rejoined Westwater Advocates. Mr Lazarowicz, a non-practising advocate from 2001–15 while serving as the Labour and Co-operative MP for Edinburgh North and Leith, called to the bar in 1996 and established a varied civil practice specializing in

The Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee today supported the general principles of the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc (Scotland) Bill but urged the government to take the opportunity to consider improvements at stage 2 and to increase awareness of the purpose of an FAI. Publishing its Stag

A campaign organisation has claimed that plans to appoint a "named person" to each child in Scotland have been dealt a blow by negative consultation responses. However, the Scottish government says the majority of the 133 individual consultation submissions in question "did not engage with the consu

Patricia Quigley The School Closure Review Panels (SCRP) has refused consent to Highland Council’s plans to close four North Skye primary schools.

David Chalmers (left) and James Muir at Stronachs’ Aberdeen headquarters. Stronachs LLP has announced the appointment of two new partners and associate promotions across its commercial and private client teams.

An employment tribunal has ruled that Vista Hotels did not follow procedure when dismissing a chef who bit two police officers and spat blood at them. James Harvey, who was head chef at the four-star Fermain Valley Hotel in Guernsey, was awarded £11,000 after the tribunal ruled his dismissal for "g