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Scottish Labour MSP Daniel Johnson has launched a consultation on a members' bill to protect school children from harm. The bill looks to enshrine in law the existing guidance on physical restraint and seclusion in schools in order to ensure it is only used as a last resort.

A company that sought to change the name of a hotel it acquired on Oban Bay to include the phrase “on Obay Bay” has won an appeal against a sheriff’s decision interdicting them from using “Oban Bay” on any signage or misrepresenting its hotel as the “Oban Bay Hote

Research showing more people are getting treatment for problem substance use has been welcomed by the Scottish government. The Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) standards support the consistent delivery of safe, accessible, high-quality drug treatment.

A window cleaner who was caught on a video doorbell camera attempting to rape an elderly woman has been jailed for four years and six months. James McArdle, 64, from Hamilton, Lanarkshire, admitted sexually assaulting the 74-year-old woman, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

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Seven wealthy Persian cats are going up for adoption less than a year after they became the largest 'benefactors' of their owner's passing. Nancy Sauer, who passed away last November at the age of 84, wanted her cats to continue living alone in her $2.5 million Florida home after she died, the Tampa

Thursday 22 June 2023Parliament Hall, Parliament House, Edinburgh Nearly 100 years ago, on Friday 13 July 1923, Margaret Kidd called to the bar – the very first female member of the Faculty of Advocates.

TLT has celebrated after achieving a 33 per cent women partner representation target two years ahead of schedule. Women have accounted for just over half of partner promotions and hires in TLT over the past three years, twice as high as it was prior to the implementation of the firm's gender equalit

Women who endured mesh surgery were not given accurate information before under-going the life-altering procedure, a case records review led by Professor Alison Britton has concluded. Glasgow Caledonian University's professor of healthcare and medical law has spent two years reviewing the cases of 1

Crimes recorded by the police in Scotland increased by one per cent, from 286,464 to 289,352 in 2022-23, new figures show. The Recorded Crime in Scotland 2022-23 National Statistics present a stable picture with violent crime recorded by officers down one per cent on the previous year with 1,161 few

A man who had a £12 million claim against Amazon UK and a recruitment agency alleging that he had been the victim of an employment scam struck out has failed to have a consent order he signed for the recruitment agency set aside in order to allow him to continue his claim. Godstime Idnekpoma,

Long-standing editor of The Journal, Peter Nicholson, has been conferred honorary membership of the Law Society of Scotland. He becomes the 21st person to be given the award of lifetime membership of the society since the organisation was founded in 1949.

An independent Scotland would have a constitution "based on the sovereignty of the people" and reflect Scotland’s values as a modern, democratic European nation from day one, according to plans outlined by First Minister Humza Yousaf. The fourth paper in the ‘Building a New Scotland&rsqu

Defence lawyer Willie McIntyre has released his latest legal thriller. How Come? is the 13th novel in the Best Defence Series, which follows the trials and tribulations of Scots criminal defence lawyer, Robbie Munro.

Frontline workers, including in schools and the NHS, are being given new guidance to help prevent children and vulnerable adults from being drawn into organised crime. The first document of its kind in Scotland, the Practitioner Guidance on Criminal Exploitation stems from work commissioned last yea