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Alison Reid The Faculty of Advocates is hosting the launch of a publication aimed at helping youngsters to maintain contact with siblings after a split in the family.

Jonathan Smithers The Law Society has criticised a government plan to raise the small claims threshold for personal injury claims to £5,000 and stop compensation payments for road traffic "minor" soft tissue injuries.

  A Sydney man was left embarrassed after neighbours called the police on him believing there was a domestic incident when he was simply trying to kill a spider.

Margaret Martin Ireland should look to Scotland to help inform its legislative approach to stalking, a major conference in Dublin was told yesterday.

Lord Neuberger Lord Neuberger delivered a speech on science and law at the Royal Society in London in which he discussed the different ways in which lawyers and scientists reason as well as the use of science in the courtroom.

Ian Maxwell Speaking at the organisation's 2015 annual general meeting the national manager of FNF Scotland, Ian Maxwell, issued a call for a cultural change in both Scottish family law and the way that Scottish family courts operate.

A woman whose father suffered from a hereditary brain disease is suing his doctors for failing to inform her before she gave birth to her daughter. Ms M found out she has the same Huntington's gene as her father and that her child, now five, has a 50 per cent chance of inheriting the incurable degen

Neil Stevenson As Will Aid month comes to an end, the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has released two new guides for consumers – on making a will and on dealing with executries.

A croft in Shetland has become the 2,000th croft to be registered by Registers of Scotland (RoS) on the online Crofting Register. It joins the 2,000th common grazing, a shared area of community land in Assynt, also registered this week.

A software pirate was handed an unusual punishment by a Czech court after he was told he could avoid paying significant damages if a film he was told to make denouncing piracy garnered 200,000 views. Jakub F, 30, who was given a three-year suspended sentence reached his target within day and now has

with the respondent in the “partner swapping” scene in Glasgow and Paisley and the sexual promiscuity indulged in at “swinging” parties. He also made what the appeal judges described as some “pithy remarks” about prosecution policy, jury trials and jurors, and the sentencing of sexual o

A bank which raised an action for damages against a firm of surveyors over its valuation of a property after lending more than £2 million to a developer who was unable to repay the loan has been told that the Court of Session does not have jurisdiction to hear the dispute. A judge ruled that the co

Members of Holyrood's Justice Committee are to look at revelations that Police Scotland acted illegally in attempting to identify journalistic sources. The Interception of Communications Commissioner’s Office (IOCCO) said this week that the single force breached the Acquisition and Disclosure of C

Graeme Bissett Anderson Strathern has appointed Graeme Bissett to its board as a non-executive director.

The Young Mediators’ Group held a highly successful mediation panel event last week with Bryan Clark (head of the School of Law at the University of Strathclyde) Charlie Irvine (Charlie Irvine Mediation) and Alison Ebbitt (Family Mediation Practice mediator). The event held at DWF LLP in Glasgow w