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Police to get extra training for Domestic Abuse Act

Funding to equip officers to assess psychological abuse and control

COPFS and Rape Crisis Scotland feedback agreement "will help service"

Victims' experiences to be used to improve support provision

Support shown for child and vulnerable witness evidence plans

Consultation responses back pre-recording strategy

Appeal allowed where guilty plea based on shared error of law

Faultless driving does not "cause" death by driving while uninsured

Edinburgh solicitors opt out of police station duty scheme

Bar Association votes to withdraw as new Act comes in

Complainer's right to anonymity upheld in extortion case

Court grants contempt order preventing disclosure of identity

Sentencing Council "mythbuster" page launched for public education

Popular misconceptions targeted with new web page

Labour domestic abuse court plan would undermine judiciary: Carloway

Lord President sees threat to independence in proposed bill amendment

Government concession to settle prisoner voting rights issue

"Temporary licence" change accepted by Council of Europe

SCTS survey finds further rise in court user satisfaction

92% declare overall satisfaction with court experience

Five year sentence upheld for possessing £12 disguised stun gun

No exceptional circumstances shown despite non-use over two years

Faculty "not convinced" of case for new hate crime law

Response to Bracadale review queries how to define further protected groups