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Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) has appointed three built environment leaders to its board. Ainslie McLaughlin, Michaela Sullivan and Karyn Watt have joined the governance board to help drive innovation across Scotland’s built environment and support the sector’s sustainab

There were 14,130 cybercrimes recorded by the police in Scotland in 2020-21, almost double the 2019-20 figure. Sexual crimes, meanwhile, decreased by two per cent from 13,364 to 13,131, new figures show.

Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has today warned that Police Scotland must be transformed into a 21st century police force after new figures revealed that recorded cyber-crime doubled in the past twelve months. In 2020-21, an estimated 14,130 cyber-crimes were record

The SLLG Committee and Advocates Library are hosting an event which will be of great interest to law librarians, legal professionals, law students and anyone with an interest in professional legal research. On the occasion of the bicentenary of Session Cases, Lord Ericht will give a seminar presenta

Aberdein Considine has boosted its dispute resolution team with the appointment of a banking and commercial litigation specialist in Aberdeen. Elaine Elder, who is currently an associate with Aberdein Considine and is based in the Granite City, is joining the firm’s nationwide dispute resoluti

A vicar has defended a decision to host a four-day beer festival in a church graveyard – where revellers sat on headstones and used graves as tables. Reverend Martin Anderson, who organised the festival at St Mary the Virgin church in Stockton-on-Tees in north-east England, said most people "h

Judicial salaries have been frozen for a year, new figures from the Ministry of Justice show.

Jonnie Hall, NFU’s Director of Policy, will deliver the keynote session entitled ‘The transition to a new agricultural policy for Scotland beyond the CAP’ at CLT Scotland’s Rural Law Conference taking place online on 27 October. Chaired by Hamish Lean of Shepherd & W

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The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber has ordered a Glasgow landlord to pay £2,400 to his former tenants after they applied to the tribunal for a Wrongful Termination Order. Lesley Munro and Grant McNicoll argued that they would not have left the property had they n

Strathclyde Mediation Clinic was presented with the 2021 Community Contribution Award at the Scottish Legal Awards in Glasgow last week.

There has been a sharp increase in the number of bicycles reported as stolen over lockdown, new figures show. In tandem with the rise in the number of people cycling over the past 18 months there has been a 20 per cent increase in reports of thefts.

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A new expert advisory forum on land and human rights has met for the first time to discuss the relationship between property rights and wider economic, social, and cultural rights. The forum has been set up through a partnership between Scotland’s land reform body, the Scottish Land Commission

A judge has brought to a halt a lawsuit filed by Evel Knievel’s son that accused Disney of profiting from the daredevil's image through Toy Story 4 character Duke Caboom. Kelly Knievel had claimed the character was based on his father without permission and amounted to unjust enrichment and an