A think tank has said today the “epidemic” of burglary and shoplifting affecting the UK is being ignored by the criminal justice system. A report by the think tank Policy Exchange states that three quarters of all crime in the UK relates to property but that the courts and police are turning a b
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Cloch Solicitors has welcomed an LLB student to the firm for work experience this week. Fraser Crombie (pictured) is gaining experience at the firm as part of its campus programme with the University of Stirling (now in its second year), and in fulfilment of a work based learning module at the Unive
Money seized from bankers is set to benefit the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Family Support Trust by £200,000. The money, collected from fines issued to banks found to be falsely inflating or deflating rates, will now be used to help care for personnel and their dependants who are injured, suff
Scottish Legal Training has some tickets available for its prestigious Clinical Negligence Masterclass to be held in Edinburgh next Monday – March 9.
A local council that gave away an historic public building in error is to ask for it back. Andrew Burns, Edinburgh City Council leader (pictured) has lodged an emergency motion to ask for the return of Parliament House from theScottish government after council officers failed to declare the building
Ampersand Advocates has announced that Dorothy Bain QC, Ailsa Carmichael QC, Aidan O'Neill QC and Laura-Anne van der Westhuizen have been appointed to the new panel of counsel of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Hundreds paid tribute to criminal defence lawyer Joe Beltrami (pictured) at his funeral in Glasgow yesterday. Something of Mr Beltrami’s character was revealed at the requiem mass held for him following his death last week at the age of 82.
The solicitor general, Lesley Thomson QC(pictured) has today announced a full review of the way agricultural crimes are prosecuted in Scotland. The issue of agricultural crime was recently discussed at a round table event in the Scottish parliament.
The Scottish parliament’s justice committee is to start taking evidence on new laws to fight human trafficking in Scotland. The Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Billaims to clarify and strengthen the criminal law by introducing a new single human trafficking offence as well as increas
A Dundee law graduate had been made chief executive of a trade organisation for the offshore industry. Deirdre Michie (pictured) will replace Malcolm Webb as chief executive of Oil & Gas UK in May.
CMS has announced the appointment of partners Shona Frame (pictured right) and Ian McCann, adding further resource to the firm’s growing construction team in Scotland. Ms Frame, a construction disputes specialist, will be joining the firm from MacRoberts.
The protection of human rights, growing the economy and gaining long term clarity on the UK’s membership of the European Union should be among the key priorities for political parties, the Law Society of Scotland said today. The Law Society has published a new document, which sets out four major p
A lawyer who breached a court order that meant he could not work as a solicitor has been jailed for three months. John O’Donnell, 64, ignored the terms of an interdict granted in 2009 at the Court of Session preventing him form practising for five years after a ruling of the Scottish Solicitors Di
The UK government has published a joint national protocol on crime committed in prisons which aims to reduce violence in prisons. The new joint protocol produced by the Prison Service, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) provides that when there are seriou
