Police Scotland has been fined £66,000 after extracting the entire contents of a person's mobile phone after they reported an alleged crime and then sharing it with a third party who should not have ...

Hereditary peers in the House of Lords will become a thing of the past under legislation which has now passed at Westminster.

Regular contributor and dear friend of our publication, David J Black, has passed away at the age of 78. An obituary ...

Last March, I wrote about how AI was reshaping the legal profession and warned firms who failed to embrace it risked being ...

A judge has ruled against a couple who tried to reclaim a small area of land by planting a garden gnome on it. The Upper ...

A fresh bid to split the dual role of the lord advocate will be launched in Westminster today after Scotland's justice secretary urged caution around changing a system she said has "considerable ...

Lawyers representing families who lost loved ones to the pandemic have criticised the "glacial pace" of the Scottish Covid-19 inquiry after its last set of hearings were postponed to 2027. At a ...

Sex workers have criticised the Scottish government's appointment of a former senior police officer to pave the way for the criminalisation of the purchase of sex in Scotland. Fiona Taylor, a former ...

A group set up to oppose the erection of electricity pylons in Galloway as part of a planned project to replace the area’s electrical infrastructure have lost a petition for judicial review seeking to ...

Sir Keir Starmer's warning about the lessons of Iraq reflects a central principle of the UN Charter – that the use of force must rest on clear legal grounds rather than strategic convenience, writes ...

The pensions and lifetime savings team at Burges Salmon has grown its practice by over 100 per cent in three years and ...

A husband and wife who breached a position of trust to abuse vulnerable foster children in their care have been jailed. Barbara and Douglas Daniel were found guilty of subjecting six children - aged ...