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Michael Matheson People on community payback orders (CPOs) carried out more than 1.3 million hours of unpaid work in communities across Scotland in 2014/15, according to a new report published today.

(L-R): Illaria Moretti and Gillian McGarry The Scottish final of the Brown Mostyn International Client Consultation Competition was held on 29th January and the topic was "Matrimonial Disputes ".

Local school pupils have battled their way to the semi-finals of the Law Society of Scotland’s national debating tournament after arguing the cases for and against paying compensation for historical injustices. Of the 128 teams that entered the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament, 16 teams f

Lord Neuberger A Conservative think tank has condemned increasing fees of more than £1,000 an hour charged by City law firms for restricting access to justice.

The judgment in a case in which snack van operators successfully challenged a Scottish local authority ban which prevented them from trading near schools has been published. A number of street traders sought to reverse a decision of the defender, North Lanarkshire Council, to prohibit snack vans sel

Lord Pentland The UK's three law commissions have called for a new legal framework for the conduct of elections and referenda in an interim report published today.

John Swinney Many thousands of homeowners will be hit by the second homes levy due to come into effect in the coming months.

Joe FitzPatrick The Scottish government has said its plans to increase transparency around lobbying have been “enhanced” with the commitment to a two-year review of its widely ridiculed lobbying legislation.

Gavin Buchan Gavin Buchan has joined Lindsays as a partner in the commercial property team based in Edinburgh.

(L-R): Bruce Beveridge, Nicola Gray, Leonie Donald, Musab Hemsi, Neil Morrison, and Caroline Docherty The most recent successful candidates for The WS Society’s Signet Accreditation programme were presented their awards by the chair of the Signet Accreditation board, Bruce Beveridge WS and deputy

Ross McKenzie Ross McKenzie warns that the way organisations handle personal information will need to go through some significant changes in the coming years to accommodate the biggest change to the data protection regulatory framework since the early nineties.

New laws to strengthen the rights of carers will be debated by the Scottish Parliament for the final time this afternoon. Mental health minister Jamie Hepburn met young carers at Edinburgh Young Carers Project this morning ahead of the stage 3 debate of the Scottish government’s Carers Bill at Hol

A top judge has said the lack of diversity in the judiciary should be addressed by schools and policymakers. Wendy Joseph QC said the UK's “white, middle-class, middle-aged, male” courtrooms are not representative of the communities they serve.

A man jailed for eight years for the rape of two women has had his convictions quashed after Appeal Court judges ruled he suffered a miscarriage of justice. Lord Eassie, sitting with Lady Smith and Lady Clark of Calton ruled that Alan Clark, 40, suffered a miscarriage of justice.

Edinburgh University officials have been forced to scrap a plan calling on tutors to leak private information about students who told them about debt problems. Lecturers were instructed to pass the information of hundreds of students who had fallen behind in their tuition fee payments on to official