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Services to protect women and girls from gender-based violence will receive an extra £1 million this year with the launch of a £13m fund. The Delivering Equally Safe Fund – which brings together a number of previous funding streams – will support frontline organisations, with

The value of fines and penalties collected in the last three years has risen in all categories, reflecting consistently strong collection rates, the new Quarterly Fines Report from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service reveals. The 43rd Quarterly Fines Report shows that the value of Sheriff Cour

Lynette Purves has been appointed to renewable energy company ERG as its first UK legal counsel. Following an 18-month secondment to ERG from Burges Salmon, Ms Purves takes up the role on a permanent basis in Edinburgh from March.

Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe has been appointed a lecturer in law at Glasgow Caledonian University. She will work within the School for Business & Society, teaching across the undergraduate programme and supporting the work of the university's law clinic.

Rachel Dunn has been appointed chair of Women in Property's Central Scotland branch for 2020/21. Ms Dunn, an associate at Dentons in Glasgow, takes on this regional role for the national property and construction industry lobbying and networking organisation for one year from 1st March 202

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association is hosting its Women in Law seminar in Edinburgh next month. The annual event brings together a number of high-profile and inspiring women from the Scottish and English legal communities to share their personal experiences and address our members on issues suc

New bodycam footage shows the moment an officer in Florida arrested a six-year-old girl as she cried. Kaia Rolle was taken to a police vehicle with her hands fastened behind her back because she had had a tantrum at her school in Orlando.

A court has rejected claims from prosecutors that a woman who staged a topless protest against Vladimir Putin committed an act of public indecency. France's supreme court, the Cour de Cassation, said it was legal for women to display their breasts in public so long as their “behaviour was inco

An admin worker affected by epilepsy who was sacked from her job at the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) because she was unable to meet the standards of performance and attendance expected during her probationary period has been awarded more than £30,000 in compensatio

Drugs prosecutions in Scotland have plummeted following a change in policy. Figures show that cases have halved in four years, with prosecutors applying what they say is "smart", not "soft touch" justice.

An election for the office of Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates has been won by Ruth Crawford QC, the first woman to hold the post. Ms Crawford topped a poll in which Lisa Henderson QC, and Vinit Khurana QC, also stood as candidates.

The Scottish Law Commission has published a discussion paper reviewing cohabitation law in Scotland. While the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 gives cohabitants statutory rights where none previously existed, there have been changes in society and in attitudes to relationships and families in Scotlan

SSE has appointed a new legal panel following a review which began in September 2019. The appointment of the new panel follows SSE’s increased alignment of its wider business strategy to focus on low carbon assets and infrastructure and delivering a low carbon future. SSE’s original lega

Sheriffs, summary sheriffs and lawyers at Glasgow Sheriff Court are to stop routinely wearing wigs and gowns in civil proceedings. Practitioners should hang up their court dress from March 2, a practice note from the Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin states.

New hearing facilities for the additional support needs jurisdiction within the Health and Education Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland in Glasgow were formally opened yesterday by May Dunsmuir, Chamber President of the Health and Education Chamber and the Minister for Children and Youn