And finally… our top 10 of 2025

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.

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