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Kenneth Lauder (left) and Andrew Bertram Stuart & Stuart has announced that Kenneth Lauder and Andrew Bertram have been assumed as partners and that Peter Atkinson andDouglas Bowen have both retired as partners but continue with the firm as consultants.

Judy Williamson  

The most senior judge in England and Wales has said horrific sexual imagery and distressing testimony judges face are “beyond the understanding of most people” and will leave them disturbed. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, said sex offence cases are on the rise and could not be

Students at the University of Strathclyde have founded the University's first mediation society and are looking for help from volunteers. It intends to give law students an introduction to practical mediation and a range of transferable skills which they can use in their future career.

Lord Hamilton Two distinguished legal figures from either side of the border are to be the speakers at a special event to mark Human Rights Day and European Lawyers Day being staged by the Faculty of Advocates and JUSTICE Scotland.

State school pupils have been taking part in a project to encourage them to consider a career in government law.

An English local authority that challenged a decision which meant the costs of providing accommodation for an elderly care home resident who moved north of the border could be recovered from the council has had a petition for judicial review refused. A judge in the Court of Session dismissed the cha

Professor Mark Poustie A new report recommends an increase in the number of penalties available for wildlife crime offences.

The Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission (SCCRC) has referred the case of a man convicted of various offences relating to the possession and distribution of indecent photographs of children to theHigh Court following the decision in Strachan v HMA2011. In accordance with the commission’s statu

A pet rescue charity in Washington state has joined forces with a local prison to put stray cats behind bars where prisoners will look after them. Prisoners at Mission Creek Women's Correction Center in Belfair will look after abandoned cats and kittens until they are ready to return to shelters for

. He was sympathetic to the proposed declaration relating to the Guidance but agreed that it would be wrong to make it without considering further submissions. Jamie Kerr, an immigration expert at Thorntons said: "This decision seems to be a very harsh one, especially given that compliance with the

The publisher of GQ magazine has been found in contempt of court over a “seriously prejudicial” article on the phone-hacking trial. The High Court in London ruled that the article had created a “substantial risk” the trial of former News of the World (NoW) editor Rebekah Brooks, former deput

Elaine McDougall Motorists in Glasgow have paid more fines this year in traffic offences caught on CCTV than in any other council area in the UK BBC News reports.

A man who raped a 14-year-old girl while her mother was in the next room has had his prison term increased following a Crown appeal against sentence. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the sentence of three years imprisonment was “unduly lenient” and increased it to one of five years.

The Faculty of Advocates has entered the debate on repealing the Human Rights Act 1998 in favour of a Bill of Rights by declaring that it is not convinced of the need for substantial reform, in evidence to theScottish Parliament’s European and External Relations Committee. The committee is examini