Thorley Stephenson Solicitors Edinburgh Blog

A woman has won her appeal against a sheriff’s ruling that the pre-divorce agreement that she made with her former spouse was ‘unfair’. The sheriff ruled that it was not a fair agreement, because her ex-husband had signed the agreement without having received any legal advice.

The issue of health and safety in the waste and recycling sector has been subject to scrutiny recently, after the Health and Safety (HSE) announced it would be beginning a programme of unannounced inspections of sites across the country.

The Scottish Government has announced that it intends to extend a presumption against short prison sentences and encourage greater use of more effective community sentences to help reduce incidences of re-offending. However, it says that short jail terms should still be imposed when they are the only suitable option.

The Scottish Government has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the crime of human trafficking, highlighting that it is often taking place much closer than people realise.