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The completion rate for community payback orders was highest for those aged over 40 (78 per cent) and those in employment (81 per cent), a criminal justice social work report by the Scotland’s Chief Statistician published today shows. The number of social work orders issued in 2015-16 was 20,400,

The average duration of proceedings before both the European Court of Justice and the General Court of the European Union has fallen, new judicial statistics show. The average length of proceedings before the Court of Justice fell to 15 months in 2016, which it said reflected its efforts to improve

Lord Justice Briggs A heterosexual couple have failed in their legal battle to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage.

A group of volunteers from Glasgow Caledonian University Law Clinic are taking to Buchanan Street this Wednesday to lend a helping hand to the community.

Darren Murdoch By Darren Murdoch, trainee solicitor, Waddell & Mackintosh Solicitors, Troon.

Legislation aimed at addressing the frustration caused by overgrown hedges will be examined by the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee.The High Hedges (Scotland) Act came into force in 2013 with the aim of resolving issues with overgrown hedges that interfere with the

Mike Russell It cost the Scottish government just over £136,000 to intervene in the Article 50 case at the Supreme Court.

The widow of a scuba diving enthusiast who was killed in an accident will not be able to pursue her claim for damages against the owners and operators of a vessel from which her late husband fell and drowned, but appeal judges ruled that she will be able to sue as guardian to their young child. The

The Advocate General has launched an attack on the Law Society of Scotland over its position on Brexit, The Herald reports. The Advocate General has launched an attack on the Law Society of Scotland over its position on Brexit, The Herald reports.

Hamish Lean Hamish Lean explains the compensation regime for improvements made during an agricultural tenancy.

The Scotsman has published a full obituary for Roanne Dods, a dancer, Scots lawyer and arts producer who passed away last month at the age of 52. Ms Dods read law at Edinburgh University and specialised in urgent litigation around family violence before embarking on a creative career and ultimately

Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre (pictured), has been appointed co-vice chair for the International Bar Association Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee.

Two board members and a new chair have taken up their posts at the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCR), the organisation that looks into alleged miscarriages of justice. New chair, Bill Matthews, is a former senior executive with Motorola who subsequently spent a number of years in the

Professor Dame Sue Black and her team at the University of Dundee’s Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) have reconstructed the face of a Pictish man they showed to have been brutally murdered 1,400 years ago. Archaeologists excavating a cave in the Black Isle, Ross-shire, found the

The man convicted of the murder of school girl Paige Doherty has had his sentence reduced following an appeal after claiming that the punishment part imposed was “excessive”. John Leathem was sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 27 years after pleading guilty to the murder of