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Launching its Business Plan this week, the Scottish Sentencing Council announced the areas its first guidelines will cover including death by driving, and environment & wildlife offences. Environmental and wildlife issues have particular significance in Scotland relating to tourism, rural indust

David Flint MacRoberts has been shortlisted for commercial team of the year at the British Legal Awards alongside Eversheds, Herbert Smith Freehills, Olswang, Simmons and Simmons & Ward Hadaway.

Stuart Gillies As Brexit looms, Stuart Gillies (pictured) highlights the top five clauses to consider when reviewing loan documentation.

Pictured: chairman Jack Robertson (front centre, holding award) with the team from Thorntons after winning the title of Best Scottish Employer 2016.

Pictured (L-R): Mark Smith, Sarah Sutton, Sean Callery, Tim Mouncer, Lorna Jack, Marina Sinclair-Chin, Louise Docherty and Gael Scott

Francis Fitzgibbon QC The chairman of the Criminal Bar Association has said “sexting” offences should be tackled outwith the courts.

Professor Jo Shaw The “Great Repeal Bill” will result in a "constitutional bust-up", according to one legal academic.

A man who was sentenced to a total of five years' imprisonment after admitting assaulting police officers while on duty and assaulting a procurator fiscal depute in court has failed in an appeal against sentence. The Criminal Appeal Court dismissed the appellant’s claim the total sentence imposed

Ronnie Coulter has been convicted of the 1998 murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar, following a retrial under the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011. At a trial in 1999, Mr Coulter, 48, from Wishaw was acquitted of murdering the 32-year-old Indian waiter in Overtown, North Lanarkshire.

Amber Rudd Unduly lenient sentences for extremists are to be dealt with under plans announced by the Home Secretary.

Roseanna Cunningham Tough new regulations on the use of electronic training collars for animals will be introduced in Scotland, Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham has announced.

Chris Philips and Pam Loch

Three students from the University of Edinburgh have been awarded £1,853 after their landlady failed to lodge their rental deposit in the approved tenancy scheme, the BBC has reported. Regulations introduced in May 2013 require landlords and letting agents to hand over deposits to an approved third

Peter Wright Proposals to use online courts to resolve civil claims of up to £25,000 represent a threat to access to justice, a leading lawyer has warned.

The fourth in Dr Fiona Westwood's series has just been published and is a must for any solicitor taking the nurturing of young lawyers or their own professional development seriously. Following Achieving Best Practice-shaping professionals for success (2001), Accelerated Best Practice-implementing s