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The Scottish government must go much further to cut reoffending after figures showed significantly fewer people on short-term sentences are receiving support after being released from custody, the Scottish Lib Dems have said. Throughcare aims to prevent reoffending by supporting people who have been

A sheriff in the Scottish courts has been identified as the only judge in the world to preside over trial using text-to-speech technology. Sheriff Alastair Carmichael has been using the technology to continue his work as a sheriff following his diagnosis with motor neurone disease (MND).

The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) has written to First Minister John Swinney expressing concern over his offer to meet with the family of Sheku Bayoh, following the collapse of the public inquiry into Mr Bayoh's death. The SPF has also invited Mr Swinney to meet PC Nicole Short, who was injured b

The Scottish government’s plans to expand the prison estate will still leave the country short of space for its current inmate population, new analysis has found. The existing design capacity of Scotland’s prisons is 7,805, yet the total population stands at 8,391 – almost 600 more

The Scottish Legal Aid Board’s annual report shows the number of solicitor firms providing legal aid continues to decline. SLAB’s annual report for 2024-25 was tabled in the Scottish Parliament yesterday and showed a five per cent decline in legal aid firms. There are now just 567 firms

The Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) is gathering views to shape the development of efficient and effective court procedures on group proceedings. The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) Scotland Act 2018 allowed rules of court to be introduced to provide for group proceedings in

The Scottish Sentencing Council has made "significant progress" towards the finalisation of sentencing guidelines on rape offences, according to its annual report. The council recently came in for severe criticism, being described as a "monument to inertia" and "functionally irrelevant".

A new report from the Scottish Land Commission shows how lessons from around the world could help Scotland modernise the way it values land and property. The research, carried out by WPI Economics, forms part of the commission’s ongoing work with the Scottish government to explore how tax can

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) is consulting on a draft regulatory statement to guide its work as it implements the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025. The statement responds to the regulatory objectives, set out in chapter 1 of the Act and intended to guide the approa

The Scottish Biometrics Commissioner has praised Police Scotland for reducing the number of cases where it captures biometric data from children. In March 2023 the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner, Dr Brian Plastow, published a review in which he called on Police Scotland to develop a policy for the

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has been revalidated as a complaint handler. The SLCC is a complaint handler member of the Ombudsman Association (OA), a professional association for UK and other ombudsman schemes. All members of the association must meet its criteria of independ

A Scottish woman who moved to the United States to pursue her dream of becoming a defence lawyer has been murdered in Los Angeles. June Bunyan, 37, who grew up on the Isle of Arran, was found dead in her home on 11 September with “traumatic neck injuries”, police said.

A majority of a Scottish Parliament committee is unable to recommend the general principles of the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill be agreed to.  The Health, Social Care and Sport committee has highlighted a series of concerns with the bill and said it will require significant amend

The Scottish Conservatives have warned John Swinney that they can’t vote for the flagship justice bill unless he accepts “common-sense changes” to strengthen the rights of victims. Shadow justice secretary Liam Kerr said the legislation, as it currently stands, is “a Victims&

The Scottish island which hosts the World Stone Skimming Championships has been rocked by a cheating scandal. Easdale, one of the Slate Islands, in the Firth of Lorn, which has a permanent population of just over 60 people, welcomed more than 2,200 people from 27 countries to this year's event.