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Award-winning advice agencies are working in collaboration to set up a pro bono project that will help vulnerable children secure citizenship rights. Kids In Need of Defence (KIND) UK will be modelled on a similar American scheme, co-founded by UN refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie-Pitt, an

Rob Marrs The Law Society of Scotland is running a series of free member events on Wednesday 22 June on the topic of "returning to work".

Four new members have joined three familiar figures as Glasgow and Fife members on the Law Society of Scotland Council. Gwen Haggerty, from BSW Solicitors in Dunfermline will join Susan Williams, who has been a council member for three years, to represent their Cupar, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy const

The University of Dundee has the top-rated law course in Scotland, according to the Guardian University Guide 2017, published this week.

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A judge fired for persistently watching adult material on official IT equipment has appealed his dismissal on the basis that he was depressed. Former judge Warren Grant, 61, claims he was suffering from "severe undiagnosed depression" as a result of marital problems and his employers had discriminat

Scottish secondary legislation restricting student loans to under 55s breaches the right against age discrimination and is therefore “ultra vires”, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled. Lady Scott upheld a claim by a 56-year-old woman that the relevant regulations amounted to “unlawful di

Derek Mackay New powers have been transferred from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament under the Scotland Act 2016.

Leave well alone, is the suggestion by the Faculty of Advocates to possible changes in the way commission and diligence is exercised in family actions in the civil courts. The Scottish government asked for views on the current law and practice, saying that if it concluded that legislation and/or cha

Laura Tilt A new project will see criminologists study the effect of wrongful convictions on the lives of victims after their release, The Herald reports.

Supporters of a proposed domestic abuse offence hope it will improve the prosecution rate for victims of psychological abuse. Less than 20 per cent of people who have suffered psychological abuse from their partner think they have been the victims of a crime, according to new figures.

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Dr Kath Murray The overall number of police stop and searches in Scotland has decreased by 93 per cent since officers started making dramatically fewer "consensual" searches.

Jillian Mclaughlan Scottish Legal News has welcomed a summer intern today.

A man serving a sentence of life imprisonment for murder who claimed that the prison service has failed to provide him with a reasonable opportunity to rehabilitate himself has had a petition for judicial review dismissed by a judge in the Court of Session. Stuart Quinn argued that the Scottish Mini