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Justice Secretary David Gauke has announced proposals for all refurbished and new magistrates' and Crown Court buildings to have separate entrances for complainants and defendants, while court staff will be told to use a "more compassionate" tone with complainants, to indicate their empathy. The pla

Pictured (L-R): Fraser Morrison, Michelle Rae, David Beveridge, Laura Forrest and Calum Thornton

Thieves have made off with the irreplaceable doors of a sixteenth-century castle, the owners have announced.Proprietor David Butler said the heavy wooden doors were noticed missing on Saturday.The distinctive doors of Ballyadams Castle near Ballylinan, in Ireland, date back to the seventeenth o

Aberdeen and north-east legal firm Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace (RCC&W) has announced two new appointments in property and financial service teams. Sarah-Louise Hay joins as an additional mortgage adviser and will divide her time between the firm’s Ellon and Inverurie branches.

David Arnott Brodies' David Arnott comments on a major case from the Inner House this week.

Pictured: Brian Inkster (left) and David Preston

Pictured (L-R): David Mathieson, Eve Torrie, Graham Taylor, Anne McKeown, Stuart Mackie

Pictured (l-r): Richard Duffy and David Perdikou Morisons Solicitors has expanded its real estate team with two new appointments.

Pictured: David Rennie (left) and Neil Forbes

The judge appointed to preside in the Kerry District over the next few weeks had an embarrassing moment on his first morning in court after he mistook nearby church bells for a mobile phone ringing. Judge David Waters is filling in for Judge James O'Connor, who is ill.

Six solicitor advocates were granted extended rights of audience in the criminal courts this week.

Pictured (L-R): David Parratt QC, Joe Matthews and Bill Frain-Bell

Civil rights activists have complained about bizarre rules that ban Texas prisoners from reading Where's Waldo? but allow them to read the works of former KKK grand wizard David Duke and Adolf Hitler. A list of 10,000 books banned from Texas prisons includes Homer Simpson's Little Book of Laziness a

Pictured (L-R):, Eloise Robb, Liz Stewart, David Rennie and David Marshall.

Pictured (L-R): Anne-Marie Chalmers, David Coutts and Janice Jones