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A law graduate has launched a ground-breaking new service that works with both survivors and perpetrators to tackle domestic abuse. Amy Macdonald and her aunt, Lynne Mackenzie, have together formed community interest company Rise Against Abuse CIC.

TLT has advised Biffa on its £10 million acquisition of Scotland's only post-consumer plastics recycling facility. Biffa is the UK's leading sustainable waste management business and the acquisition is in line with the group's strategy to quadruple its plastic recycling capacity by 2030.

Grants worth a total of £1.61 million have been allocated to community-based drugs organisations and support services providing access to treatment and residential rehabilitation. The local support fund – for groups with an annual income of under £1 million – issued 24 awards

The widow of a judge who has been cleared of child sexual abuse has said people who make unfounded allegations should be deprived of their anonymity. Lady Nourse, 77, was found not guilty of 17 charges made against her by a man who accused her of abusing him as a boy under 12 in the 1980s.

A dramatic police chase ended when the suspect pulled into a McDonald's drive-thru and attempted to order food. Police began to tail Johanna Gardell, 38, after she allegedly stole a pickup truck and struck a number of vehicles with it.

A joint appeal by three members of the same family who were injured in a road accident on holiday in Malta seeking a remit of their actions to the Court of Session has been refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Suzanne, Michael, and Kieran Henderson raised actions against&nbs

The Scotsman has published an obituary of Michael Gascoigne, who has passed away at the age of 72. "At 13 he was awarded a scholarship to Fettes College, Edinburgh, where he excelled in all aspects of school life. Studious and inquisitive by inclination, popular with his peers and teachers, and with

JUSTICE has made recommendations aimed at reforming the benefits system in the UK. The organisation's new report makes 44 recommendations aimed at improving the administrative and procedural aspects of the benefits system.

Boiling lobsters alive will become a crime under new UK government plans which will recognise crustaceans and molluscs as sentient beings with the ability to feel pain. Ministers are expected to back a proposed amendment to the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill, extending its protections for vertebrat

SEMLA and Brodies LLP are collaborating to offer virtual work experience to two students. The collaboration will offer two student members the opportunity to undertake a week's virtual work experience between 16-20 August 2021.

HSBC UK and TSB have launched their lowest ever fixed-rate mortgages at 0.94 per cent.

After two decades running the IP practice at Burness Paull, Colin Hulme is well practised in defending his clients’ intellectual property rights. That does not mean there is nothing left for him to learn, though, which is why he has begun trialling a new form of rights-enforcement exercise: a

Dr Edward Dove, lecturer in health law and regulation at Edinburgh Law School, has been appointed to the editorial board of the European Journal of Health Law. The European Journal of Health Law focuses on the development of health law in Europe: national, comparative and international. The exchange

A contingency measure to help prisoners affected by drug use during the pandemic is to be rolled out into the wider community after a pilot project was shown to be a success. Last year the Scottish government allocated £1.9 million to support people in prison on prescribed opiate substitution

A new project examining perspectives on the Good Friday Agreement has been launched by the UCL Constitution Unit. The project, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, will be led by Dr Alan Renwick, the unit's deputy director who previously chaired the Working Group on Unification Referendum