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After a successful pilot during 2022 Shared Parenting Scotland is launching the New Ways For Families programme in Scotland this week. Shared Parenting Scotland has the exclusive license to offer the programme devised by the High Conflict Institute in California. Scotland will be the first jurisdict

Tom Stocker and Stacy Keen write about the ever-changing Russian sanctions regime. On the year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the focus has rightly been on the loss of life and destruction of cities, towns, and homes in Ukraine.

It seems odd that a psychiatrist once described in a Times interview with Stephanie Marsh as "the most hated doctor in Britain" should suddenly become the most all-powerful doctor in that very same benighted realm – yet that is precisely what has happened. On January 27th Sir Simon Wessely too

A commercial judge has repelled objections raised by the landlord of commercial premises in Kilwinning to a surveyor’s report on the value of the claims against tenants he averred were in breach of their repairing obligations. Ashtenne Caledonia Ltd raised actions against tenants Mahmood Salee

Close family members of late Thorntons chair and Hillcrest Enterprises board member, Jack Robertson, attended the formal opening of the Ellengowan regeneration in Dundee, marking the completion of the first phase of the development.

A big cat found up a tree in a US city was found to have a taste for something stronger than catnip – cocaine. Dog wardens in Cincinnati, Ohio were called out to the city's Oakley neighbourhood following reports of a "leopard" spotted in a tree.

The UK government should ensure that each of the 4,000 pieces of legislation inherited from the European Union into domestic law are given due consideration, according to Stephen Gibson, senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and chair of the UK government’s Regulatory Policy Committee. The c

Gillespie Macandrew has announced the appointment of three new partners and seven promotions. Andrew Leslie from the firm’s housebuilder team, Ross MacRae in banking & finance and Sharon Murray in family law have all been promoted to partner.

The Law Society of Scotland is stepping up its support for mental health and wellbeing in the legal sector, with small firms in particular to benefit from a new free mental health first aid training course. Mental health specialists Macdonald & MacMillan Training will run the two-day course in A

Advocate John Halley, 59, has been arrested over alleged sexual offences. Mr Halley was arrested last month and is due to appear in Livingston Sheriff Court at a later date.

The University of Glasgow has been awarded funding to establish a law clinic designed to increase access to justice in Scotland for complainers in sexual offences cases, through the provision of free independent legal advice and representation by solicitors. The first of its kind in the UK, the Emma

Balfour and Manson has boosted its employment team with the arrival of employment lawyer Simon Mayberry as partner and head of the employment team and Kenzie Howard as solicitor. Mr Mayberry, who was previously at Shoosmiths, is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in employment

An appeal by an accused against a sheriff’s decision to extend the time limit for commencing his trial diet in Edinburgh has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary after it sought to clarify the modern law on the practice. Philip Barr was set to be tried under a charge of abusive conduct

In this case commentary, Terra Firma's Fred Mackintosh KC considers the effect of the recently published decisions of the High Court of Justiciary in Barr v HM Advocate [2022] HCJAC 9 and BS v HM Advocate [2023] HCJAC 5. The High Court has now published two decisions made on the summer of 2022 in re

The Faculty of Advocates will host an online event entitled “Women at the Scottish Bar” on Thursday 18 May. The careers clinic will give participants the chance to have a confidential conversation with a woman who are already at the bar. These conversations will cover, among other t