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With the festive period over, the first working Monday in January traditionally sees one of the busiest days of the year for family lawyers with the number of people separating increasing following the Christmas and New Year holidays. Statistics on divorce regularly reveal a significant rise in the

On-the-spot fines issued by police for anti-social behaviour should be doubled for the worst offenders, the Scottish Conservatives have argued. The party said that the current fixed penalty notice (FPN) for offences including breach of the peace and vandalism should be doubled from £50 to &pou

Spiralling rents in Glasgow and Edinburgh’s private rented sector are leading to more homelessness and poverty, according to Govan Law Centre. GLC said that the story beneath the Scottish government’s official statistics is stark, and deeply worrying: casework from the centre's Citywide

Jennifer Jack, a member of the legal team that represented the MPs in Wightman and others, summarises the case. Brexit is fraught with uncertainty – but there is now one thing we know without a doubt: The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has confirmed the UK is legally e

Two Scots lawyers have been awarded OBEs in the Queen's New Year Honours list. Joan Aitken was the Scottish Prison Complaints Commissioner (Ombudsman) from 1999 until her appointment as a Traffic Commissioner.

Short term prison sentences of less than 12 months will be brought to an end this year, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has announced. New figures showed more than 1,000 people spent last Christmas in prison on such sentences.

Measures to help police and prosecutors to tackle domestic abuse will come into force on 1 April next year, ministers have announced. The Domestic Abuse Act 2018, passed by the Scottish Parliament last year, creates a new offence which explicitly covers psychological harm as well as physical harm, a

Aberdein Considine has appointed four newly qualified solicitors and hired seven new trainees. The new solicitors and trainees are spread across the firm’s offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Banchory, Stonehaven and Newcastle.

The judiciary must become more diverse to address the perception that judges are “beings from another planet”, the president of the UK's highest court has said. Lady Hale said that there should be a more balanced female to male and white to non-white ratio in the Supreme Court in an inte

Blackadders saw profits rise last year to £3.26m in the year to March 31 – up from £3m in 2017. Results at Companies House show that the firm recorded revenues of £11.89m, a slight decrease on the previous year.

Scottish business could be left behind unless it builds stronger trade links with China as the superpower capitalises on its new status as the number one driver of global IP growth, a specialist has warned. China is now overwhelmingly driving growth in filings for patents, trademarks, industrial des

Police are forced to attend Scottish courts dozens of times each month to deal with a range of 999 calls, new figures have shown. Between 2016 and 2018, the force received 2,228 emergency calls from sheriff courts across the country.

A think tank has called for a pilot scheme in Scottish prisons to offer each prisoner a landline phone in their cell. At present, Scottish prisoners can only access a telephone at certain times and often in communal settings. In England, conversely, a number of prisons have landline phones in c

Scotland's law officers today marked the 30th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing. The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, attended a commemoration at Dryfesdale Cemetery in his capacity as head of the system of prosecution in Scotland, and as the representative of the Scottish government.

Morton Fraser has begun a new podcast series that explores mediation in Scotland. In the first episode of the Stuck in the Middle series, the firm chats with Graham Boyack, director of Scottish Mediation about the role mediation plays in resolving conflict and the various ways in which mediation can