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A university has established its own law firm to give students "real life work experience" while they study. Sheffield Hallam University said the initiative is the first to incorporate work experience into every year of the law degree.

An infuriated sheriff has thrown out three cases after getting fed up with the lack of work done by the Crown. Cases on hospital assault as well as a knife in jail and a hit-and-run accident were all thrown out within half an hour, The Herald reports.

The Glasgow Sheriff Court Alcohol Court is to deal with domestic abuse cases in which alcohol has played a role from next month. Offenders convicted of domestic abuse offences have so far not been admitted to the court but a new scheme offering an alternative to custody will let the court consi

The Judicial Office for Scotland is pleased to announce that it will be holding two judicial career seminars in February 2019, focusing on upcoming sheriff and summary sheriff recruitment. If you are wondering whether you have the experience and qualities needed to be a judicial office holder, wheth

New guidelines to be released this week will recognise racial discrimination against people on the basis of their hairstyle, the New York Times reports. The change in the law will apply to anyone in the city but is intended to remedy the poor treatment of black people.

The public is being asked for their views on how the law covering succession in Scotland could be made fairer. A newly-launched consultation asks how an estate should be split when there are both a surviving spouse and children.

It has emerged that 500 people per month caught with cannabis in Scotland are avoiding prosecution as police issue warnings instead. Anti-drugs campaigners have criticised the policy as a “soft touch” approach but police have defended their use of recorded police warnings (RPWs) as a way

Unions have criticised the involvement of private companies in the justice sector following the collapse of three community rehabilitation companies (CRCs). Working Links, a private provider of probation services which manages thousands of offenders in Wales and south west England through three

A planned new piece of Scottish land law could be made more user-friendly, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. The Scottish Law Commission (SLC) has produced a draft bill following a consultation last year on improving the much-criticised Section 53 of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003.

Entry requirements for the LLB at some of Scotland's ancient universities have been adjusted to increase the intake of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Edinburgh University's 'access threshold' programme lowers the grade requirements for prospectivee LLB students to ABBB at Scotti

Ministers must look at fertility laws, the President of the Family Divison Sir Andrew McFarlane has said, after hearing a case in which a transgender man gave birth. TT underwent NHS fertility treatment, becoming pregnant after completing a gender transition.

In-house solicitors are being encouraged to have their say on in-house solicitor traineeships. A new survey, launched today aims to provide a better understanding of the in-house traineeship market, including why there is a disproportionately low number of in-house trainees.

A Scottish council is the first in Europe to give its employees who have suffered domestic abuse "safe leave". South Ayrshire Council's policy will give employees up to 10 days' paid leave to allow them to seek help and support.

A man has been sent back to prison after breaking into a sheriff's house, for the second time. Michael Houston, 45, broke in Sheriff Maxwell Hendry's home in Glasgow's Kelvinside only weeks after he was released from prison.

A tattooist known as "Dr Evil" admitted causing grievous bodily harm by performing unlawful body modification procedures on clients. Brendan McCarthy, 50, pleaded guilty to three charges of GBH in respect of a tongue-splitting procedure as well as removing an ear and slicing off a nipple.