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This week the Inner House of the Court of Session ruled on a case concerning Relevant Person status in the Children’s Hearings System. Clan Childlaw represented a 14-year-old girl who had initiated proceedings by requesting a pre-hearing panel to remove Relevant Person status from both her materna

Equalities secretary Angela Constance Public bodies in Scotland will become the first in the UK to be legally required to put reducing poverty and inequality at the heart of their decision making, under new proposals outlined by ministers.

Scott Whyte

Liam Kerr More than 1,000 prisoners in Scotland are not engaged in work or purposeful activity, new figures have revealed.

31st August 2017 marked a special day for graduates of the Specialist Paralegal Qualifications offered by CLT Scotland and accredited by the University of Strathclyde.

Lord Glennie (right) delivering the keynote lecture

The courts have identified an incompatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the current disclosure regime, which a proposed law seeks to fix. This proposed change fixes a previous amendment to the disclosure regime made in 2015.

The Law Society of Scotland is launching a new, consumer-focused advertising campaign in October to promote the work of Scottish solicitors as trusted, regulated legal professionals.The new print and digital campaign, which will be launched on 16 October, will also raise the profile of the Law Socie

The Scottish government has published the new model form of private residential tenancy agreement which will be used under legislation coming into force on 1 December 2017, TC Young explains. Under the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016, which replaces Assured and Short Assured Tenancie

Michael Matheson A new code of practice on police searches for assets related to criminal activity has been published for consultation ahead of legislation taking effect in the spring.

The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has found a number of failings and made recommendations in the way police dealt with a vulnerable 50-year-old woman before she was murdered by her brother. Elizabeth Bowe was known to Police Scotland and had been extensively recorded on thei

John Swinney

A man found guilty of murder who claimed that he acted in “self-defence” of a friend who he feared was about to be attacked has had an appeal against his conviction rejected. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ruled that the appellant’s plea of “third party provocation” could

A man accused of rape who objected to the admissibility of his police interview has had his complaint upheld. A High Court judge ruled that the “repeated and prolonged” questioning of the accused after he indicated he would be exercising his “right to silence”, in the hope that he would chan

The Crown Office must address the high numbers of alleged victims 'who disengage' from the criminal justice process, according to Scotland's prosecution watchdog. The Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland has today published a thematic report on the investigation and prosecution of sexual crimes.