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Johan Findlay JP OBE looks at the history of women on the JP bench. It is 100 years since the death of Sir Hugh Munro, the Scottish mountaineer best known for listing and climbing mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet, known now as Munros.

The founder of the Faculty of Advocates’ MiniTrials initiative and its linchpin for the past 17 years has passed on the baton - quite literally. Lord Kinclaven, then Sandy Wylie QC, was moved by a suggestion that more should be done to promote legal education in schools, and came up with the i

A large-scale report into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales, carried out by researchers at the University of Bristol, has been published. The research, commissioned and published by the Home Office examines the variety of different sex work services and the reasons peopl

Police are searching for a man who allegedly attempted to open a bank account with a '$1 million' bill. Staff at a Pinnacle Bank branch in Lincoln, Nebraska, said he presented the bill to a teller and claimed it was real despite employees telling him no such bill exists, the Lincoln Journal-Star rep

Johan Findlay JP OBE looks at the history of women on the JP bench. It is 100 years since the death of Sir Hugh Munro, the Scottish mountaineer best known for listing and climbing mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet, known now as Munros.

A man who was ordered not to contact his former partner after being convicted of a statutory breach of the peace following a drunken rant at police officers has had an appeal against the bail condition imposed dismissed. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ruled that the speci

It took "far too long" for a notice of a fatal accident inquiry to be lodged in relation to the Clutha helicopter disaster, a sheriff has said. Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull has made his determination into the incident which saw 10 people die when a helicopter, then carrying out duties on behalf

The Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Keen of Elie QC, has been cleared of professional misconduct by a tribunal following a conviction for a firearms offence. Richard Keen appeared at a Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service (BTAS) hearing over allegations he had brought the profession into disre

Facebook has reached an agreement with the Information Commissioner's Office to pay a £500,000 fine in connection with the Cambridge Analytica scandal with no admission of liability. The fine was issued to the social media giant just over a year ago after the watchdog identified suspected fail

Josef Strand has been appointed an associate at Dentons in Glasgow. Mr Strand, who joins the firm's real estate department, obtained an LLB from Edinburgh University and trained with Sneddons in West Lothian.

The decision to jail the Catalan leaders has caused widespread outrage. Is the outrage justified? When regional nationalist leaders openly defy the law, what is the proper response of central government? These are questions with which the Spanish Supreme Court has had to grapple. They may yet come t

Homes in Glasgow and Edinburgh sell twice as quickly as the average UK city property, according to Zoopla's UK Cities House Price Index for September. The index has revealed that UK housing market conditions are strongest in Scotland, despite Aberdeen having performed the worst in the UK.

Social media giants Google, Facebook and Twitter must take "serious further steps" to tackle disinformation on their platforms by the end of the year, the European Commission has warned. If the platforms fail to improve their record by year-end, the Commission has said it may introduce "regulatory o

Pinsent Masons has advised Tesco on a significant project to source electricity directly from Scottish renewables projects – the biggest of its type ever completed by a retailer in the UK. As a member of the RE100 group of companies, Tesco has made a commitment to source 100 per cent of electr

A funeral ended on a high note after mourners unknowingly ingested hash cake. Police are investigating the culinary mix-up that led to the cannabis-infused confection being served at the restaurant hosting a funeral party after a burial.