Holyrood's criminal justice committee is seeking views on plans to modernise procedures in criminal courts and introduce a ...

A fatal accident inquiry is to take place into the death of a man who was found dead in his cell in HMP Barlinnie. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice to ...

The Scottish government must listen to the needs of police officers and staff as new figures revealed that officer numbers ...

Burges Salmon partner Magnus Miller considers the differences between pensions law in Scotland and in England. With the ...

Lindsays chief operating officer Ian Beattie pays tribute to the firm's lawyers playing a role in charities across Scotland.

Appellant Daniel Robertson argued he had been unable to properly complete his testimony, and as a result the jury could have drawn adverse inferences about his credibility and reliability. He was ...

Solicitor Morag McNeill has been appointed as chair of The Robertson Trust, the largest independent grant-making trust in ...

Tony Lenehan KC remains the top earner of legal aid fees, new figures from the Scottish Legal Aid Board show. In 2023-24, Mr Lenehan's fees were £450,000, an increase of £50,000 on the previous year.

Blackadders LLP has moved into its new office space in the heart of Dundee city centre.

Pinsent Masons Vario has announced the appointment of Gary Gray as the first legal director of its Company Secretarial (CoSec) team. He joins Vario in Edinburgh after 18 years with Burness Paull, the ...

Jesus was not opposed to the death penalty, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has claimed. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow told veterans of Russia's illegal war on Ukraine that Christ had "suffered ...

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has appointed Alice Leggat as a director of the board. Alice Leggat, a solicitor practising in both Scotland and in England and Wales, is head of legal at SSE Thermal, ...