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Scottish animal welfare campaigns charity OneKind has called for an end to driven grouse shooting today, the Glorious Twelfth – the first day of the grouse shooting season. Large areas of upland Scotland are used for driven grouse shooting, with the land being managed to maximise the number of

Social distancing guidelines were not always followed at a prison in which six inmates have tested positive for coronavirus. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland found that staff at HMP Kilmarnock occasionally failed to wear personal protective equipment when they were unable to observe the two-m

Two new protocols published today by the Scottish Land Commission aim to help give communities a greater stake in how land is owned and used in Scotland. The protocols set out expectations of landowners to assess use and ownership of their landholdings as part of their normal business and to work to

A woman who recently renewed her driver's license was left laughing after the new license came back with a photo of an empty chair. Jane Dodd, of Hickman County in the US state of Tennessee, renewed her license only to discover that a clerical error meant the photo on her ID was of an empty chair.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The Judicial Institute for Scotland has published a new resource to aid practitioners appearing in solemn trials in the High Court from July 2020.Restarting Jury Trials: Information for Practitioners is based in large part on a briefing paper which was initially drawn up to support those judges

Alan Delaney looks at the approach taken by the ICO during the COVID-19 crisis. Last month the ICO updated its guidance on the regulatory approach it intends to take during the current COVID-19 crisis. This guidance provides employers with some degree of comfort that where they are struggling to com

An appeal by five people, who claimed to have right of access over the driveway of a house in Aberdeen, of a decision that the right of access is restricted to only two of them has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session.  Ian Hawthorne and others raised the reclaiming

Over the past 200 years, philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error — the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.

Law firm DLA Piper has set up a £150 million funding pot and joined the litigation financing market. The firm has struck a deal with a currently unnamed funder to create a fund which will be aimed at clients that want to shift the costs of litigation and arbitration off their balance sheets, T

Trowels will be left in 90 lay-bys in parts of the Highlands for people who desperately need the toilet to dig a hole and deposit their waste. Lochbroom Community Council Chairman Topher Dawson said the trowels would be an "emergency, last resort" for people who cannot access toilets.

Lawyer Willie McIntyre is back with his latest novel – Bad Debt, the sixth in his Robbie Munro series. In his latest outing, the follow-up to last year's Fixed Odds, Robbie Munro defends an accused and his wife Joanna prosecutes, so they take different views of the law.

The Constitution Secretary has outlined to MSPs how the UK government’s plans for a post-Brexit internal market would "threaten high standards and a range of devolved policies". Giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Constitution Committee, Michael Russell said the Scot

Judgment in a tax case will be handed down by the Supreme Court next Wednesday via video link. Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Respondent) v Parry and others (Appellants) is principally about whether the pension scheme transfer by the late Mrs Rachel Staveley, an

A joint investigation into the derailing of a train at Stonehaven yesterday has been ordered by the Lord Advocate. Three people died on Wednesday when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven. The train is thought to have hit a landslide caused by heavy rain and thunderstorms on Tues