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Caroline Gillespie reflects on the development of the law on domestic abuse as new legislation comes into force today. Today, the law on domestic abuse changes in Scotland. The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 is now in force, creating a new crime of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour

No bottle of wine for guessing that one as Queen were in the Oscars. So, there I was on Saturday. Son's dog walked. Grass cut. Opinion drafted. Prep done for next week's trip up north. Only problem was worrying about the St Mirren score. So, I thought I'd go and clear an expected half dozen or so e-

A charity that helps school pupils challenge bigotry is one of the organisations sharing £530,000 of Scottish government funding to tackle sectarianism in 2019-20. Sense Over Sectarianism supports pupils in Glasgow to recognise and combat bigotry, as well as providing training for teachers acr

Perthshire law firm Macnabs has announced the promotion of two members of staff as it opens a new office in Blairgowrie. Alan Roughead, who joined the firm from MacRoberts in October 2017, has been promoted to director and will head up the private client department.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called for action to improve mental health in prisons, following the publication of the Deaths in Custody report by Aamer Anwar and the family of Katie Allan, a young woman who tragically committed suicide in prison. The report highlights, among other things, that

A new Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates, Richard Pugh, has been elected in a seven-way contest.

The Scottish government has today published a review of national and international evidence on the extent, prevalence and nature of repeat violent victimisation. Overall, evidence from national and international crime surveys shows that violent crime is disproportionately suffered by repeat victims.

The UK government has abandoned plans to define extremism in law after being told it would criminalise legitimate political and religious activity. Lord Anderson of Ipswich, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said previous attempts to deal with dangerous ideology before it leads t

Members of the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Sub-Committee on Policing have asked police to stop their deployment of cyber-kiosks or ‘digital triage devices’ until there is greater clarity on the legal framework for their use in a new report out today. Cyber-kiosks are laptop-sized

Couples in England and Wales will be able to go through "no-fault" divorces faster under new government proposals. New legislation representing the biggest overhaul of divorce laws in the jurisdiction in 50 years will be presented to MPs "as soon as parliamentary time allows".

Scotland's commissioner for children and young people has written to the United Nations, calling on it to intervene over issues including illegal restraint and the strip-searching of under-18s. Bruce Adamson said that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has not yet been incorporated into do

Lady Hale reflected recently on attempts in the nineteenth century to establish an Imperial Court of Appeal, opposed by both Scotland and Ireland. Delivering the 2019 Macfadyen Lecture in Edinburgh last month, the Supreme Court President asked: what is the United Kingdom Supreme Court for?

Tommy Sheridan has failed in a legal challenge to have his perjury conviction referred to the appeal court. Mr Sheridan, 55, was imprisoned for three years in 2011 after being found guilty of lying in evidence before a civil jury in 2006 in a case that saw him win £200,000 in damages for defam

Tommy Sheridan has failed in an appeal to have his perjury conviction referred to the High Court of Justiciary to consider whether he suffered a “miscarriage of justice”. The Inner House of the Court of Session upheld a decision of the Lord Ordinary to dismiss th

Scotland's jail population is set to reach a record high of 8,500 this summer, The Times reports. There has been an eight per cent increase in the prison population to 8,200 in the past year, with overcrowding a widespread problem.