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Police recorded 60,641 incidents of domestic abuse in 2018-19 – a two per cent rise on the previous year, new figures show. Levels of domestic abuse recorded by police in Scotland have remained relatively stable since 2011-12, with around 58,000 to 61,000 incidents each year.

A successful young solicitor from Ayr who was due to be sentenced for a driving offence has sadly died. Kay McFarlane, 34, was to be sentenced at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last Thursday after having crashed her car at Crosshouse Hospital last summer when she was over the drink-drive limit.

From "parking fines" to "post-mortems", it is "all in a day’s work" for procurator fiscal depute Karon Rollo, who visited Kilgraston School to explain her role to pupils. Speaking as part of Kilgraston’s Women and Business series, Ms Rollo gripped her audience, of Upper Fourth and Lower

A respected dance school is facing a lawsuit from a student who says she sustained injuries after being made to lift a "significantly" heavier partner. Charlotte Vanweersch, 26, claims that the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds was negligent in pairing her up with the other woman.

A Nigerian national who lodged a human right claim to remain in the UK with members of her extended family has successfully challenged a decision to refuse her application to appeal. The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) rejected the petitioner’s claim that she had developed

Custodial sentences for periods of 12 months or less have fallen to their lowest point since the introduction of a presumption against short sentences. The scheme – which the Scottish government has named 'PASS' – resulted in the lowest number of custodial sentences in November and Decem

MacRoberts has won a place on the highly competitive legal panel for SSE plc. SSE opened the tender for its legal panel roster in September of last year and 40 firms applied to take part in the procurement process. Following extensive review, MacRoberts joins Dentons, DLA Piper, and TLT as new panel

"It is as if the prorogation order had never existed", Elaine Motion, chairman of Balfour and Manson, told SLN on the day the Inner House ruled in Cherry that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was unlawful. Last year saw Scotland's legal system come under the world

The Scottish Law Commission’s Annual Report 2019 outlines progress on the commission’s law reform work during 2019. The report explains the progress made on implementation of the commission’s recommendations, outlines the commission’s work to promote law reform and contains a

Sex offence rates in Glasgow have declined by 22.5 per cent in the nine months to December 31, 2019, according to police figures. The number of such crimes recorded in the division dropped from 837 to 648 as compared with the same period in the preceding year.

A building warrant has been lodged to demolish the fire-ravaged building that housed the office of Lefevre Litigation in Aberdeen. The blaze on December 23 last year caused “significant structural damage” to the building on Carden Place that also housed restaurant Valentino&rsq

A new review has been launched into claims by two businessmen that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) nearly drove them to bankruptcy. The allegations, which have been staunchly denied by RBS focus on the bank's now-inoperative Global Restructuring Group (GRG), which was found to have mistreated thous

HMRC is homing in on inheritance tax avoidance by wealthy families through the creation of a secret unit which will investigate the ways in which investment companies are used to reduce bills. HMRC established a team in April last year, to investigate the use of family investment companies (FICs) am

A 52 year-old man from Glasgow has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for causing the death of a 45 year-old man after attacking him in a bar. Thomas Allan, of Govan, was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh after he pled guilty to causing the death of Jason Haig. He struck Mr Haig with

A number of the Faculty of Advocates’ devils have been speaking to students about the process of joining the Scots bar. Aspiring advocates often seek answers to their questions about life at the Faculty, and who better to offer guidance than those currently undergoing the internationally-recog