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Neil Carmichael stabbed his mother Morag six times and beat her with a baseball bat at her home.

A sheriff who jailed a teacher for engaging in sex acts with two girls ‘erred’ when he decided to send the man to jail, a court has heard.

A SHERIFF who jailed a Shetland teacher for engaging in sex acts with two girls "erred" when he decided to send the man to jail, the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh heard on Tuesday morning. Lawyer Ann Ogg said that Sheriff Philip Mann failed to properly consider Kieran...

JUDGES at Scotland’s highest civil court have rejected an action brought by a Cairneyhill campaigner who sought an order that Holyrood could hold an independence referendum unilaterally. Martin Keatings wanted the Court of Session to rule that the Scottish Parliament had the power to legislate for another indy vote. Lawyers for the activist told Lady Carmichael in January 2021 that they believed the Holyrood Parliament possessed the powers for it to call a referendum. They stated that the Scottish Government did not need the permission of its Westminster counterpart. However, lawyer...

Submitting... The couple had been taking their new car for a drive on the B792 road near Torphichen, West Lothian, when Jones’s vehicle collided with them on January 8 2019. One of the passengers on the bus Jones was driving, 78-year-old Agnes Marshall, suffered serious injury and others were also hurt. Last month, prosecution lawyer Ashley Edwards QC told appeal judges Lady Dorrian, Lord Pentland and Lord Turnbull that their colleague Lord Doherty hadn’t properly considered the circumstances of the collision. Ms Edwards said that if Lord Doherty had carried out a proper examination of th...