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Victoria Young has been appointed as the new advocate member of the Scottish Sentencing Council. Ms Young practises mainly in criminal law and has acted in the High Court for both prosecution and defence since being admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1995.

There is not much time left to support vulnerable families in Fife during the festive season this year through the Faculty Christmas Collection. The Faculty Christmas Collection is organised each year by Maria Maguire KC.

People in Scotland are more likely to support human rights than not and are increasingly worried about having fewer human rights, according to new research. YouGov research published by the Scottish Human Rights Commission shows that almost half of people in Scotland support human rights. Support fo

A woman who admitted to assaulting a fast food worker has been sentenced to two months' work in a fast food restaurant. Rosemary Hayne, 39, threw a burrito bowl in the face of the manager of a Chipotle restaurant in Ohio in an assault which was captured on video and went viral on social media.

A farm labourer who acted as an illegal gangmaster has been fined £400. Dean Currie, 33, pleaded guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to receiving just over £6,000 for illegally supplying workers to pick potatoes at a number of farms in Fife.

A new approach aimed at reducing domestic abuse-related homicides and suicides has received backing. The proposals for a Domestic Homicide and Suicide Review Model would help identify what lessons can be learned and applied following the death of a partner, ex-partner, or child where abuse is suspec

A national strategy to prevent and address violence against women and girls has been renewed. Equally Safe, a joint strategy with COSLA, was first published in 2014, and is backed by the Delivering Equally Safe Fund that is providing £19 million per year to support 121 projects from 112 organi

An academic is looking for participants for her research on inequalities in knowledge production in criminology and learning in Scotland. Janine Ewen, an early career researcher based at the University of Aberdeen, is carrying out a qualitative ethnographic study via interviews.

The Junior Bar Association has reserved the Laigh Hall at the Court of Session for the International Christmas Court later this month.

Dr Gloria Alvarez, senior lecturer in law at Aberdeen University, has been selected to be part of the 2023-2024 ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy for Latin America.

A consultation on new laws designed to protect the interests of future generations has been launched by the Scottish government. Public policy experts at Dunfermline-based Carnegie UK have welcomed the move, but warned ministers that legislation alone won’t address many of Scotland’s big

Former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday lost his temper in the hot seat at the public inquiry examining the UK government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, where he was grilled by lead counsel to the inquiry, Hugo Keith KC – but who is this distinguished barrister? The joint head of c

The average selling price of property in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders dropped 6.6 per cent year-on-year to £273,348, according to new figures from ESPC. The average percent of Home Report valuation attained was 4.2 percentage points lower than last year, recorded at 102.6 per

Catholic nuns who own shares in gun maker Smith & Wesson are suing the company over its manufacturing of "mass-killing assault weapons". New York law firm Newman Ferrara LLP is representing the coalition of four congregations of Catholic sisters who have filed the stockholder derivative lawsuit

Thorntons has announced Paul Adams and John Smart as partners for its first office in Inverness alongside a further eight appointments. The new team joins from Wright, Johnston and Mackenzie.