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A man with "CRIME PAYS" emblazoned in a tattoo across his forehead has been arrested again. Donald Murray, 38, turned himself in after being sought by police in connection with a car chase, CTV News reports.

A new initiative will see three sheriff courts, Dundee, Hamilton and Paisley, piloting a new approach to test the benefits of stronger judicial case management and earlier engagement with the Crown and defence agents in summary cases. These pilots follow on from other Scottish Courts and Tribunals S

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) should extend its victim strategy to complainers of sexual crimes that are prosecuted in the sheriff solemn courts, a review has found.

At Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday solicitors Rona Macleod and Alastair Houston from the Legal Services Agency and advocate Adrian Stalker represented five asylum seeking clients who had received eviction notices from housing provider, Serco, and who were at risk of having their locks being changed.

Thousands of weapons are being confiscated at courts in Scotland, The Scotsman reports. Security staff seized more than 13,000 items at secruity gates last year, among them 1,300 knives and 2,500 other bladed objects, figures from a JPI Media Data investigation reveal.

Collection rates of fines issued by both sheriff and JP courts have increased to 90 per cent, according to a new report. The fortieth Quarterly Fines Report, published by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) shows that 90 per cent of the value of Sheriff Court fines and JP Court fin

A sheriff’s decision to grant an absolute discharge to a woman found guilty of the theft of £200 worth of fencing was “unduly lenient”, the Sheriff Appeal Court has ruled. Three appeal sheriffs quashed the sheriff’s decision and convicted the respondent of the

A local police department was left red-faced after accidentally ordering 24,000 rolls of toilet paper. The Marshall County Sheriff's Office in Alabama, USA, spent $22,000 on toilet paper and $9,000 on trash bags - despite only having a $15,000 budget for janitorial supplies next year.

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 decision by a sheriff to grant an absolute discharge in the case of Christopher Daniel, the 18-year-old dental student who sexually abused a six-year-old girl, made headlines in Britain and beyond. Initial stories highlighted that the victim, who was eight at the time, was questioned in a record

A prisoner facing a three-month jail sentence for making an improvised tattoo gun interrupted a sheriff yesterday to point out the maximum possible sentence was 30 days. James Kidd, 25, admitted having the banned item in Perth Prison in December 2017, which he had made from a spoon, a guitar string,

A local group aiming to bring the former Arbroath Sheriff Court building into community use has been given until the end of march to prove it has enough capital for its proposals, The Courier reports. The Arbroath Courthouse Community Trust (ACCT) has been given a final chance to prove it has the wo

A man found guilty of attacking another man with a meat cleaver, who claimed that a sheriff was wrong to allow CCTV footage to be introduced as evidence after its existence only became apparent during the trial, has had an appeal against his conviction refused. Jamie Hyslop argued that the material

A man convicted of unlawful sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl has successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to impose an extended sentence. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary quashed the extension period after ruling that the sheriff failed to explain why she considered