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Neil Stevenson As part of its annual budget consultation, the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) - Scotland’s independent body for complaints about lawyers - has called on members of the public, and legal professionals, to join the discussion about who should pay for the increasing cost o

g such an attack. In these circumstances, the sheriff was entitled to take the view that there was no evidence from which it could be inferred that the appellant might have been acting in self-defence.” In relation to the sentence imposed it was argued that although a custodial sentence was approp

Ireland's top judge has said judicial training in Scotland is "much more sophisticated" than that offered to the Irish judiciary. The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, told a seminar at NUI Galway that it was "a source of some embarrassment" to him that some Irish judges had to go t

The Law Society of Scotland has expressed concern at proposals for an above-inflation increase in the Scottish legal complaints budget for the second consecutive year. The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission has proposed a 5.2 per cent rise in its draft budget for 2018/19 which must be paid for by

A prisoner who claimed that drugs found to be concealed in his rectum did not belong to him has lost his appeal. Edwin Greco Wylie-Biggs, 36, was sentenced to an extra three to six years in prison after officers strip-searching him found a blue balloon containing K2 (synthetic marijuana) sticking ou

Lord McFall of Alcluith The House of Lords Liaison Committee has launched a review of House of Lords investigative and scrutiny committees.

Rebecca Barrass

Murray McCall Anderson Strathern has been appointed to all six lots of the Legal Services Framework for the Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) which was established to ensure good value and high quality services for education institutions in Scotland.

A majority of major UK and US law firms are vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a recent survey by cybersecurity experts. Researchers who surveyed 50 of the biggest firms across the two countries found most firms store data and document servers on premises, making them more vulnerable.

Pictured (L-R): Paul Rutherford, Richard Donaldson, Stewart MacGregor, Jenni Gear and Robert Bell

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A man convicted of murdering his wife who has been seeking to challenge his former employer’s decision to award him a reduced pension has had his case dismissed. David Lilburn, 54, who is currently incarcerated at the State Hospital in Carstairs after being sentenced to life imprisonment with a pu

A man, known as 'Victim D', who suffered abuse at the hands of his mother as a child is suing a victims’ charity over missed compensation, The Herald reports. Victim D’s mother was jailed for five years in 2011 for subjecting her son to abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.

The post-Brexit role of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) must be spelled out clearly and the status of its judgments left in no doubt, the Faculty of Advocates has submitted. The UK government has said that leaving the EU will “bring about an end to the direct jurisdiction of the

Professor Ross Deuchar