Council of Europe human rights commissioner Dr Michael O’Flaherty has warned of the scale of poverty in Scotland, saying one ...

A life prisoner has failed in an action for damages against the Scottish ministers after a Parole Board document intended for him was mistakenly delivered to another prisoner with the same surname. Sh ...

Canada’s federal prisons are to provide inmates with paper straws, foil and drug-testing strips as part of a harm-reduction ...

Why, asks Dr Macdonald, did the Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who ‘controlled’ their history. The answer has implications as ...

A drug dealer jailed for 10 years has been ordered to pay back almost £190,000 under proceeds of crime laws. Steven Gribble, 44, was sentenced at the High Court at Glasgow in June 2024 after pleading ...

The Outer House of the Court of Session has dismissed an action by a residential developer seeking more than £5 million in damages from a landowner after holding that the developer had previously ...

A new blueprint sets out how people across Scotland can play a bigger part in the country's response to the climate and ...

Thorntons is assuming responsibility for the wills, powers of attorney and title deeds of Young Robertson & Co, based in ...

Lawyers and their clients have raised more than £20,000 to help improve the lives of people experiencing mental health issues ...

Addleshaw Goddard (AG), which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, has reported another year of strong growth in ...

David Welsh has been elected as the new clerk of the Faculty of Advocates. "I am delighted have been elected as the clerk of ...

Scottish Legal News is marking the retirement of Jeff Anderson, its long-serving advertising manager, who is stepping down ...