And finally… our top 10 of 2025
Over the course of 2025, Scottish Legal News published more than 240 articles in our popular And finally section – sharing offbeat and weird legal news stories from around the world.
But what were the most popular? Read on to find our most-read And finallys of 2025.
10: And finally… taps aff
16 May: A judge has criticised two neighbours for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a legal dispute over “a tap and a pipe that doesn’t matter”.
9: And finally… grounds for divorce
12 May: A woman decided to divorce her husband after asking ChatGPT to interpret the meaning of her coffee grounds and being told they indicated he cheated on her.
8: And finally… paws off
22 January: An incredibly talented employee at the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has made lord justice general and lord justice-clerk teddy bears as gifts for Lord Carloway and Lady Dorrian, both of whom are due to retire from the bench.
7: And finally… fake it till you make it
3 November: The trial of three alleged fake lawyers was abruptly halted after it emerged their lawyer was himself not qualified to practise.
6: And finally… armed dissent
21 March: A judge has drawn criticism from his colleagues after filming a video of him loading several guns in his judicial chambers which he then attached to a dissenting judgment.
5: And finally… bag to rights
25 February: A dim-witted lawyer is facing charges after leaving youth court without his bag – which allegedly had his personal supply of cocaine in it.
4: And finally… devil in the detail
16 June: A man who changed his name to Lucifer Of-Darkness had his assault charge called at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday the 13th.
3: And finally… man of the people
6 February: A judge who was excused from jury duty because he said he thinks all defendants are guilty has been forced to resign from the bench.
2: And finally… sticky situation
19 June: A courtroom livestream has captured the excruciating moment when a lawyer accidentally addressed a woman judge as “honey”.
1: And finally… three body problem
4 June: A solicitor who was secretly working for three law firms at the same time has been struck off.



