A former soldier has lost an English Court of Appeal challenge against a refusal to allow him an appeal against the decision that a condition that he developed in both his calves after he left the ...

The Law Society of Scotland has advised that upcoming property settlements may be delayed because of an IT outage with a key Scottish government agency service. The Law Society has been contacted by a ...

There is an urgent need for much clearer and comprehensive standards and their application on the use of solitary confinement ...

Over the course of 2024, Scottish Legal News published more than 240 articles in our popular And Finally section – sharing ...

Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband and 50 other men have been convicted of rape and other offences in the French mass trial which ...

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. US violating law to fund Israel despite alleged human rights abuses ...

Word reaches your scrivener that a well regarded seasoned journalist by the name of Claire Atkinson is engaged in writing an ...

The study of crime in a specific area is hardly a new idea: famously, Jack House wrote The Square Mile of Murder, which has ...

The biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history is "even wider than first thought", a solicitor has said. Hundreds of ...

The PSNI and the Metropolitan Police unlawfully spied on investigative journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, the ...

Convictions rose by 15 per cent in 2022-23 to 68,067, new figures from Scotland’s chief statistician show. The figures ...

Burges Salmon, which has an office in Edinburgh, has completed around 80 corporate and M&A transactions since January 2024, ...