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

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.

If the interested reader thought that just about everything that could have been written about British intelligence agencies ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Newly released official data suggests that demand for legal aid support is no longer able to be met by the shrinking pool of solicitors working in the scheme. The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) ...

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 ...