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The Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers' Association (SEMLA) has announced a partnership with Burness Paull to offer a week of work experience to one of its student members. The firm has offered to provide one week of work experience to a student who is currently in second or third year of the LLB de

Staff at Digby Brown in Kirkcaldy raised over £500 for local mental health charity Support in Mind Scotland at the office's annual quiz night.

Young lawyers from across Europe were welcomed to the Lyon Court office as part of their 12-week programme of events in Scotland.

It was "not reasonable or necessary" for a police officer to discharge a Taser on a 28-year-old man in Bannockburn last year, the Police Investigation and Review Commissioner (PIRC) has found. The watchdog has published its report on an incident which took place outside a pub in Quakerfield, Bannock

The Scottish government has welcomed new figures revealing that the number of firearms offences in Scotland hit an all-time low last year. Police recorded 348 offences in 2017-18 in which a firearm was alleged to have been involved, a decrease of one per cent from 2016-17 (350 offences) and 13 per c

Police forces in England and Wales will be required to offer free sanitary products to female detainees under new plans announced by the Home Office today. The changes will also require police forces to make arrangements for all detainees to speak in private to a member of custody staff of the same

A university professor who taught his students to make ecstasy, amphetamines and synthetic cannabis is facing prosecution. The professor of pharmaceutical science, whose studies focus on dangerous and illegal drugs, took the students' product into his possession afterwards.

The Scottish government had no intention to reverse cuts to the legal aid budget made in 2011, contrary to claims made by the Edinburgh Bar Association (EBA) that these savings were meant to be temporary, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf stated as he announced an impending consultation with the profes

CLT Scotland’s advanced offer for the first event in the Scots Law 2019 Exhibition/Conference Series ends today.

Two police officers involved in the incident which led to the death of Sheku Bayoh have successfully challenged decisions to refuse their requests to retire on medical grounds. PC Nicole Short and PC Alan Paton, who have both been sick leave since the incident four years ago and who have yet to be t

Shepherd and Wedderburn has elected Andrew Blain as its new managing partner with effect from 1 May 2019. Mr Blain succeeds Stephen Gibb, who was first elected in 2012 and led the firm through the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

International law firm CMS has announced the appointment of energy and renewables specialist Chris McGarvey as a partner in Glasgow. Mr McGarvey arrives from Pinsent Masons and will join CMS on 1 May.

The Faculty of Advocates has reiterated its opposition to the introduction of a "serious harm" test before defamation actions in Scotland are allowed to proceed. The Faculty's intervention comes as the lawyer who represented Kezia Dugdale in a recent high-profile defamation case brought by a pro-ind

Almost half of the Scottish government’s major infrastructure projects have been subject to delays, with prisons suffering the biggest hold-ups.

Inspectors have issued a report on Scottish Border Council's (SBC) criminal justice social work services following the first inspection of its kind. The Care Inspectorate sent a team to the area between November 2018 and January 2019 to look at how local services are delivering for individuals who a