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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

A very unexpected but welcome surprise greeted a Faculty delegation on a visit to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The visit co-incided with the hearing before the Grand Chamber of the Jean Charles de Menezes case.

Kenneth Shand Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) has promoted 40 of its lawyers.

Justice secretary Michael Matheson MSP Justice secretary Michael Matheson will not intervene in the police investigation into the death of Sheku Bayoh and has rejected calls for the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) to be given new statutory powers.

A transcript of a passage of Tommy Sheridan’s cross-examination of Andrew Coulson during the former MSP’s perjury trial was inadmissible in evidence at the trial of the ex-editor of the News of the World for allegedly making false statements under oath. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the e