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Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has accepted a report into how domestic abuse is prosecuted, which has emphasised that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service must speed up the work it is doing to improve the service it gives to victims. The report assessed the work of COPFS in the management a

A man whose dog had to be put down after he abandoned it and left it inside a crate for several days has been imprisoned for six months and banned from owning or looking after animals for 10 years. Daryl Torrance, 34, of Mauchline, was sentenced at Ayr Sheriff Court after admitting a charge of anima

A charity has called for the adoption of coroners' courts in Scotland, claiming the Crown Office is failing to do its job. Faces and Voices of Recovery (Favor UK) wants Scotland to adopt the inquests system used elsewhere in the UK, in which a coroner examines the circumstances around sudden deaths.

The wrong couple were divorced after solicitors made a computer error. "Mr and Mrs Williams" were married for 21 years until separating in 2023. But they had not yet sought a divorce.

The Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland has appointed former Police Scotland detective superintendent Alex Dowall to a pivotal position. During his 30-year career, he has specialised in investigating organised crime and was the national lead for crimes of kidnap and extortion.

Balfour and Manson has promoted two of its senior associate solicitors from its property and private client teams in Aberdeen to partner, effective from 1 April 2024. The two new partners are Amy McKay and Greg Lawson.

Burness Paull has been named “Scotland IP Disputes Firm of the Year” for the fifth year in a row at the Managing IP EMEA Awards 2024. The disputes team is the busiest in the country, having acted in over half of all actions raised in the Scottish Intellectual Property Court in recent yea

Watermans is gearing itself up for a charity skydive next month in aid of Cash For Kids. Managing director Scott Whyte is leading a group of 22 volunteers who will jump out of a plane 10,000 ft above the Fife countryside on 2 May.

Scotland's prison population has reached its highest since 2020. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) confirmed the new figure was 8,100 as of yesterday.

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Lindsays has named Susan Law as its new head of rural. She succeeds Michael Yellowlees, who has led the team since 2008 and remains a partner.

CMS has announced partner promotions within its Glasgow and Aberdeen offices. The newly promoted partners include Glasgow-based Fiona Letham, head of the CMS legal services unit (LSU), a key component of the firm’s alternative resourcing offering which features over 100 paralegals.

A teenager has landed in hot water after allegedly impersonating his school headteacher and faxing a resignation letter to school authorities. The 17-year-old student at a New York high school was arrested and now faces a charge of criminal impersonation, WSAZ NewsChannel 3 reports.

TC Young's Neil Matheson was named “Associate of the Year” at the inaugural Scottish Professional Awards on Friday evening.

Clear guidelines should be established for the generation and processing of synthetic data to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness, a new study says. Synthetic data – generated through machine learning algorithms from original real-world data – is gaining prominence because i