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Justice Secretary Michael Matheson MSP An urgent review by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) is to be undertaken into police call handling after officers failed to investigate a report of a crash until three days after it occurred.

Dr Azeem Ibrahim Prisoners in Scotland with mental health problems should not be jailed but should be given treatment according to a new report by a think tank.

Lord Glennie A clay pigeon shot whose firearms certificates were taken from him by the police because of an internet post and who won his case at first instance because lawyers for the police failed to appear has had it remitted by a judge in the Court of Session.

Officials at the Home Office have accepted that a woman who has a Scottish mother; has lived in Scotland for nearly 30 years and who is married to a Scot is British. Crystal MacIver, 44, was threatened with deportation because of an administrative bungle made 28 years ago.

Stephen Donnelly Arnot Manderson Advocates has welcomed Stephen Donnelly to the stable following his admission to the Faculty of Advocates today.

Brian Crook Westwater Advocates is delighted to welcome Brian Crook who called to the bar today.

A businessman has been handed an 11-year ban from running a company after his firm went bust and ran up debts of over £43 million. The government's Insolvency Service began investigating former lawyer David Allen, 62, after his company, Work Legal-E, was liquidated in 2013.

Maureen Watt Regulation of private clinics carrying out dental and other healthcare services, including non-surgical cosmetic interventions will begin next year.

Paul Pignatelli The Glasgow office of DWF has advised Capita plc, a provider of customer and business process management (BPM) and integrated professional support service solutions, on its acquisition of Barrachd Ltd, software solutions provider and one of IBM’s business analytics partners in the

Margaret Waldron

Major trials concerning financial disputes worth more than £50 million will have their own court, or "list" under reforms meant to attract international litigants the Lord Chief Justice has said. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, said the specialist financial court would seal London's reputation as the cent

of the expiration of her grant of leave to remain in July 2013 the petitioner made another application for permission to stay for longer than a year based on her article 8 rights, which she said were stronger because of her increased integration into her family life in Glasgow. She had recovered fr

A slot machine company has failed in its appeal to the UK Supreme Court against a decision of the Court of Appeal that the winnings from its machines were subject to taxation as they were deemed to be “gaming machines”. President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, sitting with Lord Reed, Lord

The body of a man and a seriously injured woman were found in a car three days after the accident was reported to Police Scotland. Officers found the pair just off the M9 near Stirling this week. They admitted the crash had been reported on Sunday but had, for some reason, been ignored.

Laura Hay (pictured) provides an update on the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill. The bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament after a Stage 3 debate on 17 June. The commencement date has still to be announced. Extension of Community Right to Buy