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Education Secretary John Swinney A new controversial law in Scotland could see parents taking schools to court if their children do not perform well, a politician has warned.

Duncan Osler MacRoberts has successfully bid to provide external legal services required by Scottish ministers, as well as by a range of departments, agencies and other parts of the UK government.

Andy Wightman

A tour of the Faculty of Advocates and Parliament House - and judges’ wigs - caught the imagination of a group of more than 20 students from the United States who are visiting Scotland. Through a longstanding partnership with Aberdeen University, the law schools of the University of Baltimore and

Gordon Jackson QC The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Gordon Jackson QC, has sounded a note of concern about access to justice in light of proposed increases in civil court fees.

The main national issue of concern to people across Scotland is the threat of terrorism, followed by violent crime, according to the first results from Police Scotland's new online survey, 'Your View Counts'. The survey has now been live for three months and was completed by more than 10,000 people

Lord Pentland The Faculty of Advocates and the Scottish Law Commission have worked together to produce a detailed study of the commission and its law reform work.

A group of four councils who broke away from local authority representative body Cosla has threatened to take the Scottish government to court if ministers continue to freeze them out of funding talks. At the moment Holyrood will only negotiate with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosl

Liz Campbell

Dr Andrew Steven The Justice Secretary Michael Matheson has announced the reappointment of Dr Andrew Steven as commissioner to the Scottish Law Commission.

David Harvie Crown agent David Harvie has been appointed as the Scottish Sentencing Council’s new prosecutor member.

Eilidh Wiseman

The Faculty of Advocates will be a proud host of the celebratory launch of a Scottish group which has emerged from the wreckage of a GB adoption charity to continue vital work on behalf of children in need. The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) had been renowned for promoting goo

MacRoberts LLP has topped Scottish Business Insider'sSME300 listing of the country's best performing small to medium-sized businesses. The firm’s turnover grew from £17.96 million to £19.8m, with profits rising from £6.18m to £6.9m.

Howard Beach Glasgow-based commercial law firm Leslie Wolfson has acted in the £48.3 million sale of a headquarters office building in West Edinburgh, occupied by NHS National Services Scotland.