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A man who placed staff in a lingerie store in a state of “fear and alarm” after asking “wholly inappropriate” questions and telling a worker he wore fishnet stockings at home has had an appeal against his conviction for breach of the peace refused.  

A diversity steering group has set out proposals to help overcome barriers to a judicial career in a report published today: Diversity Conference Report. The Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland (JABS) , in partnership with the Judicial Office for Scotland, the Law Society of Scotland and Facult

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From left: Brandon Malone, Penelope Warne and Professor Peter Cameron

Glasgow Sheriff Court held a small reception to celebrate the successful first year of a university mediation initiative. Since February 2014 the University of Strathclyde Mediation Clinic has provided a free mediation service to party litigants in the small claims court each Friday afternoon.

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) held its Civil Day Conference yesterday in Dundee in association with Digby Brown Solicitors LLP.

Arnot Manderson duo Jonathan Mitchell QC (pictured right) and Catherine Smith (pictured below) have been appointed to a new panel of counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The new appointments run from March 2015 for a period of four years.

Two new members have been appointed to the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland (JABS). Deirdre Fulton is appointed as a lay member and Alistair Morris (pictured) as a legal member. The JABS was established by ministers in 2002 in order to create more open and accessible arrangements for judicia

The Faculty of Advocates has mounted a robust defence of the appeals system for business rates valuation, and urged the Scottish government to leave it well alone. The current system works “very satisfactorily”, said the Faculty, but damage could be done and costs could increase if local valuati

Current proposals to make the Scottish parliament "permanent" represent a political declaration rather than any matter of law, the Law Society of Scotland said today. One of the central recommendations of the Smith Commission on Devolution (paragraph 21) was for new legislation to make the Scottish

A legal challenge may be mounted by privacy campaigners against the Scottish government’s plans to create a “super ID database”. The Open Rights Group (ORG) has voiced concern that plans to open Scotland’s National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) to hundreds of public bodies, among t

A number of Scottish children have been trafficked into sex slavery, forced marriage, domestic servitude and other types of exploitation academics said in a submission to Holyrood’s justice committee. They said 60 children from Scotland have been reported to the authorities via the National Referr

A homeowner who was declared bankrupt after failing to pay more that £11,000 in council tax has had an appeal to have an award of sequestration granted against her reduced despite claiming that she never lived in the property. Judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session said “exceptional ci

Staff at Burness Paull have raised thousands of pounds for their charity partner over the last 12 months, helping to support people living with mental illness. The Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) was chosen as a charity partner by staff at the law firm and since early 2014, employees a

An internet troll faces a £100,000 bill after an American lawyer successfully sued him for libel. Jason Page, 19, left a review on Google Maps describing Timothy Bussey, a Colorado lawyer, as “a scumbag” who “loses 80 per cent of his cases”, theHigh Court heard.