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The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has begun an investigation following the death in custody of a 33-year-old man. A spokesman for the PIRC said: "The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has been directed by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (C

Dr Nick McKerrell A law lecturer has said it was “chilling” to discover he was named on an employment blacklist, the Sunday Heraldreports.

Some 60 members of the criminal bar enjoyed an enlightening conference which examined the hot topic of vulnerable witnesses. The Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA) event, in Stirling, was voted a resounding success, receiving reviews of “great”, “fantastic” and “excellent”.

Fergus Lawrie A law student at Strathclyde University who works with asylum seekers, vulnerable people and others as part of the law clinic has been given a prestigious award in London.

A retired lawyer has won a dispute with his former partners in a solicitors’ firm over his entitlement to a share of the partnership assets. A judge has ruled that the partnership agreement made no provision for division of the firm’s assets on the retirement of a partner due to age, and therefo

Professor Lorne Crerar and Martin Darroch

John Rutherford Aberdeen based John Rutherford has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn as a consultant to head up and develop the firm’s Aberdeen operations.

Richard Lloyd A company that made over 2.5 million nuisance calls has been handed a £50,000 fine.

Jessica Simor QC The candidates competing to be the next British judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been named, The Guardian reports.

Pictured (L-R): Chris Chivers, president, CIOB; Neil Kelly and Ian Gracie, chair, CIOB Scotland.

The Faculty of Advocates 2015 by Mark Roscoe, associate member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Courtesy of Mall Galleries / Federation of British Artists

Professor Jim Murdoch The University of Glasgow’s professor of public law, Jim Murdoch, is to receive the fifth annual "European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities".

David Johnstone The demand for more transparency over land ownership in Scotland will be at the heart of a landowners’ conference next month.

A decision by the Sheriff Appeal Court to remit a case of a man convicted of a road traffic offence to the sentencing sheriff to alter the disposal and impose a competent sentence was not within its powers, appeal judges have ruled. The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court held that the Sheriff App

Aidan O’Neill QC Two ex-pat Britons have failed in their High Court bid for the right to vote in the EU referendum in June.