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Lord Keen of Elie QC A major campaign to promote the UK's legal services internationally will also benefit Scotland, the Advocate General, Lord Keen of Elie QC, has said.

A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment and told he must serve a minimum of 23 years in jail for murder and culpable homicide. The High Court in Edinburgh heard that in the early hours of 26 February 2017 Robert Stratton stabbed and killed cousins Julie McCash and David Sorrie foll

The family of a man who died in hospital after being admitted to the accident and emergency department have failed in their claim for damages despite the health board accepting that its staff were “negligent”. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that notwithstanding the fact that hospital staf

David Rennie Stronachs LLP is moving its Aberdeen headquarters to larger office facilities to bring all its services under one roof.

Thirteen members of the Faculty of Advocates have been approved by Her Majesty The Queen for “the rank and dignity of Queen’s Counsel”. The list announced by the Scottish government includes James Findlay, who achieves the distinction of taking silk on both sides of the border.

A joint probe has been launched into a court official who ‘butt-dialled’ a reporter before admitting “I barely show up to work”. David Bookstaver, 58, was fired from his $166,000-a-year role in the Office of Court Administration after the New York Post reported that he revealed the informati

A new report released by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) today reveals that the fines collection rate remains consistently strong. It shows that 88 per cent of the value of Sheriff Court fines imposed during the three-year period between 1st April 2013 and 31st March 2016 has either

Maya Foa The National Crime Agency has been forced to admit that it acted illegally in assisting Thai police investigate, arrest and convict two young Burmese men sentenced to death for the murder of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller.

A man who refused to be treated by an optician following the Manchester terrorist attack because she was not white has been rebuked by a sheriff, The Scotsman reports. Eric Greene, 58, from Carluke, Lanarkshire, went to Specsavers in Lanark where he told trainee optician, Sarah Kerr, who is of India

A man found guilty of being concerned in the supply of cocaine who claimed that the sheriff misdirected the jury over how they were to treat opinion evidence from a police officer has had an appeal against his conviction refused. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary agreed that the sheri

A strategy for managing older prisoners in Scotland is "urgently required" according to a new report, which found that prisons are failing inmates with deteriorating health and mobility problems. HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland, David Strang (pictured), today publishes his report of a the

Axiom Advocates is delighted to welcome two new members, David Welsh, the recipient of the Lord Reid Scholar 2016-2017, and Kirsty Tyre.

Pictured: Keeper of the Advocates Library, Mungo Bovey, QC (second left) with Lord Pentland (fourth from right) and his guests