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The research into fatal accident inquiries, (SLN, 15 September) for me, reads rather strangely. The researchers looked at approximately 200 cases of deaths in prison, but because in only 10 per cent of these was any recommendation made, they suggest that the system is flawed. It is not clear whether

Children who have not committed a crime are likely to be admitting guilt and accepting cautions just to avoid prosecution, a new report warns. Cautions are formal warnings from the police, and when accepted mean that the case against a defendant is not pursued in court. In order to receive a caution

Alison McKay has joined Lindsays' private client team in Glasgow. She is experienced across the full range of private client work, including wills and powers of attorney, setting up trusts and providing estate planning advice.

The Aberdeen Law Project’s representation team has secured a four-figure sum for a client who had been subjected to disability-related discrimination. Lead advisor Katy Smith succeeded in a discrimination case at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. Sheriff Hodge found in favour of the client, who had been

Alan McKee, a director at McKee Campbell Morrison Solicitors, has been joined the board of Business Beats Cancer Glasgow.He is a dispute resolution and corporate recovery solicitor who regularly represents the interests of the SME business community in the Scottish courts. Mr McKee is also a tutor i

A neo-Nazi terrorist has been ordered to read classic novels in lieu of a prison sentence. Judge Timothy Spencer QC told 21-year-old Ben John to swap his extremist literature for the works of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare.

Gillian Ross has been appointed deputy director of training and education at the Faculty of Advocates. Between 2015 and 2019 she worked as a full-time advocate depute, gaining skills in the preparation and presentation of a wide range of cases.

We have a new justice secretary who, at least in one respect, bears a similarity to his predecessor: he has not made any public statement about the ill-fated prosecution of Whitehouse and Clark, the Rangers’ administrators. I wrote to Keith Brown on 19 May asking about a public inquiry and rec

Grants to improve housing or build new homes in some of Scotland’s most remote and marginal communities have been awarded to 13 crofters. The Croft House Grants scheme aims to retain and attract people to rural and remote communities with the latest round of funding awarding grants worth &poun

Gilson Gray has appointed two solicitors in its Dundee office. Adam Smith has been appointed as a solicitor within the commercial real estate team to support clients in terms of leasing, development, security and property investments.

A man who was on his deathbed with necrotizing fasciitis and who later developed alcoholism has overcome his challenges to graduate from Abertay University with an LLB. William Murphy, 52, from Cowdenbeath, left school at the age of 15 with no qualifications. He thereafter began a 25-year career in

A group of alleged fraudsters who dressed up as cardinals in order to dupe people out of millions of euros have been caught in an undercover police operation that saw officers themselves disguised – as priests. The accused were said to have tricked victims into meetings at the pontifical Grego

Alastair Milne Balfour and Manson partner Alastair Milne retires today after almost 35 years in the legal profession.

Bad faith actors are making crypto-political arguments in the legal arena, the Lord Chancellor has suggested. In a speech delivered at a conference on constitutional reform at University College London, Robert Buckland QC MP suggested the concept of the 'rule of law' was being abused for political e

A woman who impersonated her teenage daughter to sit through an entire day of school has been arrested. Casey Garcia, 30, said she infiltrated her 13-year-old daughter's middle school in Texas to make a point about school security.