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A new report sets out a plan to transform "Violence Against Women and Girls work in Scotland". The report of the Independent Strategic Review of Funding and Commissioning of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Services in Scotland  details the legal right to, and guaranteed funding for

Douglas Strang and Kate Ross explain the protections the Equality Act 2010 provides for non-binary people. The Act provides protection to transgender people against discrimination, harassment, and victimisation in the workplace. Until the decision of the Employment Tribunal in Taylor v Jaguar L

A judge in the Court of Session has refused to order the return of two young teenagers to the Netherlands to stay with their father after he made a Hague Convention application under the Child Abduction and Custody Act for their return, on the basis that it was not safe for them to return and they h

Scotland's housing market activity has continued to experience a slowdown in May, with indicators suggesting that potential increases in interest rates might further pressure the market, according to the recent Residential Market Survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). As was

The City of Edinburgh Council's licensing scheme for short-term lets operators is unlawful, a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has ruled.

Blackadders held its first annual summer conference on June 8 when staff from offices across Scotland gathered in Dundee for the first business event since the Covid lockdown.

Lord Turnbull has been appointed as chair of the coming statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing. The UK government announced in February that it would launch an inquiry into the preventability of the bombing, which was orchestrated by the Real IRA and led to the deaths of 29 people and two unb

The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, has pledged to continue the robust prosecution of hate crime, after new figures showed a small fall in charges reported. The annual report on Hate Crime in Scotland, published today, shows a decrease of two per cent in the total number of charges reported to COPFS

A dead lover, traces of poison and series of letters that led to a middle-class woman on the stand – the case of Madeleine Smith held all the characteristics of a scandal to rock Victorian Scotland. True crime enthusiasts are in for a treat as the University of Dundee’s Leverhulme Resear

DWF has hosted 18 students for work experience in Edinburgh and Glasgow as part of the business' community education programme.

Scottish Labour MSP Daniel Johnson has launched a consultation on a members' bill to protect school children from harm. The bill looks to enshrine in law the existing guidance on physical restraint and seclusion in schools in order to ensure it is only used as a last resort.

Dentons has moved to the Edinburgh's west end after signing a 15-year lease for premium offices in 9 Haymarket Square.

Academics at Abertay University are working with Police Scotland on a research project that aims to help frontline officers improve how they interact with LGBT and care-experienced young people. Led by Professor Jim Moir of Abertay’s School of Business, Law and Social Sciences, the project inv

Land managers will be given more powers to help control Scotland’s rapidly growing deer population after updated rules were introduced to Holyrood this week. The changes to existing laws aim to make it easier to reduce unsustainable deer numbers in order to protect plant life and boost rewildi

A lawyer who claimed he was suffering from “sexsomnia” when he molested two schoolchildren and raped their older sister has been convicted of sexual abuse. Andrew Lingard had denied the historical offences, claiming that he had a condition that makes sufferers unaware of what they do whi