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Maya Foa Human rights group Reprieve has criticised the UK government for failing to take steps to prevent the execution of three men in Bahrain, our sister publication, Irish Legal News, reports.

Colin McKay More 124,000 people were detained in the UK on any given day in 2015-16, including more than 2,000 in Scotland in cases of emergency detention a new report has found.

Caroline Gardner Reports finding that Scotland’s police “continue to suffer from weak financial leadership and considerable budget pressures” and that “urgent work is still needed to strengthen their finance function and improve their scrutiny governance” have been published today.

Terra Firma Chambers is delighted to support local charity Kids Love Clothes this Christmas.Kids Love Clothes provide struggling families with young children in Edinburgh and the Lothians with a wardrobe’s worth of quality, donated clothes, ironed and packed in giftbags. The charity is run entirel

Thomas Ross The president of the Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA) has called the £4 million cut in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) budget by the Scottish government "absolutely astonishing".

Jenny Hopkins Prosecutors and police chiefs have published an honour-based violence/abuse and forced marriage protocol highlighting the complexities of these cases and the barriers victims face in coming forward to report.

James Wolffe QC The Lord Advocate, James Wolffe QC, has stressed the need to respect the dignity and rights of all within the criminal justice system, whether victim, witness or accused.

Simon Rubinsohn House sales in Scotland will continue a downward trend into 2017 due to a lack of stock while prices are expected to rise over the next three months, surveyors have suggested.

Claire Rowe UK law firm Shoosmiths, which has a presence in Edinburgh, has announced it is expanding into Northern Ireland through a merger with Belfast firm McManus Kearney, our sister publication Irish Legal News reports.

School pupils from across Scotland successfully debated the pros and cons of holding referendums to win through to the next stage of the Law Society of Scotland’s national debating tournament. The opening rounds of the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament saw 128 teams from 85 Scottish school

Govan Law Centre details its findings of failings in Scotland's personal insolvency market.

Glasgow-based Livingstone Brown Solicitors has maintained its status as the largest recipient of legal aid in Scotland, despite a 13 per cent drop in the total amount it received. The firm was paid nearly £1.7 million in 2015-16, down from more than £1.9 million in 2014-15.

Senior solicitor advocate Iain Paterson (pictured) of Paterson Bell Solicitors earned £195,000 in legal aid payments in 2015-16, new figures show. Mr Paterson's total payments represented a 27 per cent decline on £267,000 in 2014-15, but he retained his position as the highest-earning solicitor ad

Lord Carloway An Order made by the Lord President, Lord Carloway introducing a new framework for the training of Justices of the Peace, came into force on 28 November 2016 with practical training arrangements to be effective from 1 January 2017.

The Law Society of Scotland has welcomed the UK government’s intention to maintain links with Europol, warning that a failure to opt-in to the new European policing co-operation framework would have implications for the ability of the police to share information on cross-border criminal activity.