Measures to improve the support and information available to victims and witnesses of crime in Scotland are being brought into force today. This is the second package ...
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The UK violated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) four times last year, new figures released by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) show. The ...
The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has published the findings and recommendations of its scrutiny inquiry into the public impacts of Police Scotland’s decision in 2013 to authorise ...
A company director who was sued for more than £3,000 in professional fees by a law firm which was instructed by another director to act on the ...
An appeal by two landlords against a decision requiring them to pay a tenant thrice the deposit for a lease which they failed to timeously repay has ...
Alison Saunders In a major change to the investigation of sex offences, men accused of date rape will need to convince the police that the woman gave ...
The Scottish government has offered its support to Liberty’s “common values” campaign. The campaign aims to broaden understanding and respect for human rights and counter the damaging ...
Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre Limited in cooperation with the University of Aberdeen, Business School, Centre for Real Estate Research have published statistics for the fourth quarter of ...
Fraser Hardie (pictured right), has joined the firm to head up the firm’s Edinburgh office, working within the commercial property group. With experience in property and construction legal ...
More funding is being made available for projects designed to tackle female offending in Scotland after justice secretary Michael Matheson today announced an additional £1.5 million would ...
In response to the announcement by the lord president, Lord Gill on the timetable for reform of Scotland’s civil courts, Alistair Morris, president of the Law Society ...
Alistair C. Clark
A father who took out after-the-event (ATE) insurance for a legal dispute with his son cannot recover the premium as part of his expenses, after the UK ...
Solicitor Charles Milne, chairman of Kingdom Housing Association (pictured) and, until recently a legal member of the Parole Board for Scotland has welcomed the justice minister’s decision ...