A case management initiative introduced at several courts has the potential to transform summary justice across Scotland, bringing early resolution for victims and witnesses, a reduction in police ...
A woman has been refused permission to appeal against a decision of the Upper Tribunal upholding a decision not to award her additional child maintenance from her ex-partner after a judge in the Inner ...
The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Matthew Peter Burden. Mr Burden, 36, who was employed as a gamekeeper by East ...
A rapist who sexually abused two young girls during sleepovers at his home has been jailed. Alexander Hunter was found guilty of seven charges on August 21 following a trial at the High Court in ...
The King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR), the Crown’s representative responsible for ownerless property in Scotland, has welcomed today’s publication of the findings of the Treasure Trove ...
Family lawyers and child law litigators are not the only ones concerned with children: criminal lawyers, probably somewhat behind sociologists and criminologists, will have noted the number of young ...