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A new programme, being piloted in three prisons in England and Wales, that aims to reduce re-offending rates and transform the lives of prisoners has seen positive early results. The Counting on Confidence Programme, run by the self-development organisation Meee, is designed to embed a belief in the

Compass Chambers is delighted to have once again been recognised as a leading set by Chambers UK in the latest edition of the directory which was published yesterday. Compass has received 52 individual rankings in 6 practice area categories. Compass is also ranked Band 1 as a set in 5 categories &nd

Arnot Manderson Advocates is delighted to report the remarkable achievement of twenty-four individual rankings including 8 in Band 1 across fourteen wide ranging Practice Areas in the recently announced Chambers and Partners listings.  As well as the haul of individual rankings Arnot Manderson

An airport has capped goodbye hugs at a maximum of three minutes long. New signage at the drop-off section outside Dunedin Airport in New Zealand coldly states: "Max hug time 3 minutes. For fonder farewells please use the car park."

After more than two decades in legal practice, private client partner Beth Hamilton has retired from her position at Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM). Ms Hamilton joined Bartys, then a branch of Borland, Montgomerie , Keyden, in 1999, initially as a part-time assistant specialising in will

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland are to stage a one-day strike and begin to refuse serious cases in pursuit of an increase in legal aid fees. Following a ballot earlier this month, the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents criminal barristers within the Bar of Northern Ireland, wil

A former lord chief justice has lent his support to calls for prisoners serving indefinite jail terms to have their sentences reviewed. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, who was England and Wales' most senior judge between 2013 and 2017, worries that those imprisoned under the abolished imprisonment for publ

Dear Editor, In your article in relation to the late Len Murray you reported that Tony Miller was the last ever prisoner to be hanged in Scotland.

Two hundred staff have been recruited by the Home Office to clear a backlog of 23,300 modern slavery cases. UK safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, said that the department intended to end uncertainty for victims by completing cases within two years.

Dear Editor,  Your story last week on the Council of Europe's biannual European Judicial Systems CEPEJ Evaluation Report revealed some interesting statistics and commentary on how Scotland compares with European neighbours on a range of measures.

Ampersand Advocates has once again demonstrated its exceptional standing in the Scottish legal landscape, securing top-tier rankings across multiple practice areas in the newly published Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2025. The stable has been recognised as a Band 1 set in Clinical Negligence, P

The Taliban has banned media outlets across large swathes of Afghanistan from broadcasting images of living beings. State media in the provinces of Takhar, Maidan Wardak and Kandahar have been told they can no longer air or publish images of people or animals, Newsweek reports.

A new film about the exploitation of garment workers in the UK fashion industry has been released to mark Anti-Slavery Day 2024. The animation, based on research conducted by Glasgow Caledonian University London lecturer Erica Charles, tells of the human cost behind the production of clothing for fa

Thorntons has appointed nine newly qualified solicitors following the successful completion of its two-year traineeship programme. The newly qualified solicitors include Catriona Kemp, Robyn Canning, Rebecca Engel-Morton, Rose Grant, and Lewis Quinn in the firm’s Edinburgh office, Liam Martin

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Derek Taylor. Mr Taylor, 55, who was a partner in Maidenwells Farm, Rumbling Bridge, Kinross, died on 18 September 2022, after an accident involving a John Deere utility vehicle