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A judge has ruled against a couple who tried to reclaim a small area of land by planting a garden gnome on it. The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) ruled last week on a years-long dispute between neighbours in Surrey.

Lawyers representing families who lost loved ones to the pandemic have criticised the "glacial pace" of the Scottish Covid-19 inquiry after its last set of hearings were postponed to 2027. At a preliminary hearing yesterday, inquiry chairman Lord Brailsford said it "will not be possible" for the inq

Sex workers have criticised the Scottish government's appointment of a former senior police officer to pave the way for the criminalisation of the purchase of sex in Scotland. Fiona Taylor, a former deputy chief constable of Police Scotland, will lead a new Independent Commission on the Criminalisat

Police Scotland has been fined £66,000 for extracting the entire contents of a person's mobile phone after they reported an alleged crime and then sharing it with a third party who should not have received it. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued the fine and reprimand after find

A fresh bid to split the dual role of the lord advocate will be launched in Westminster today after Scotland's justice secretary urged caution around changing a system she said has "considerable strengths". John Cooper, the Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway, will today introduce a bill under

NewLaw Scotland LLP has become part of Jones Whyte, bringing around 3,000 clients and more than 30 solicitors, paralegals and support staff. Paula McMillan and Laura McGee join Jones Whyte as partners as part of the deal, which will enhance the firm's practice in the areas of clinical negligence, pe

A group set up to oppose the erection of electricity pylons in Galloway as part of a planned project to replace the area’s electrical infrastructure have lost a petition for judicial review seeking to overturn the grant of permission for the project to proceed after a Lord Ordinary found that

Hereditary peers in the House of Lords will become a thing of the past under legislation which has now passed at Westminster. The House of Lords will no longer be up there with Lesotho's Senate among the only legislative bodies in the world with a hereditary element following the passage of the Here

Last March, I wrote about how AI was reshaping the legal profession and warned firms who failed to embrace it risked being left behind. Today, that warning has become a reality as a new wave of agentic AI moves beyond simple tools to systems that can think, plan and execute multi-step legal work aut

Antisocial air passengers who play music from their smartphones out loud now face being banned from a world-leading airline. United Airlines, by some rankings the world's biggest airline, has revised its contract of carriage to require passengers to use headphones when listening to a device, CBS New

A husband and wife who breached a position of trust to abuse vulnerable foster children in their care have been jailed. Barbara and Douglas Daniel were found guilty of subjecting six children - aged between four and 14 - to cruel and unnatural treatment between 1986 and 1991.

Sir Keir Starmer's warning about the lessons of Iraq reflects a central principle of the UN Charter – that the use of force must rest on clear legal grounds rather than strategic convenience, writes Andrew Stevenson. The British Prime Minister is to be commended for his reaction to the latest

The UK government has published the terms of reference for the long-awaited public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Mr Finucane, who co-founded Madden & Finucane Solicitors, was murdered in his home in north Belfast on 12 February 1989 by loyalist paramilitaries wh

A lord ordinary has declared that the Scottish Prison Service failed to provide appropriate rehabilitative opportunities to a prisoner sentenced to an Order for Lifelong Restriction who was removed from the waiting list for its Self Change Programme after deciding the programme could not address his

A new report has revealed Police Scotland is failing to take the fingerprints of thousands of people it arrests each year. The Scottish biometrics commissioner has today published the findings of a joint review carried out to provide assurance that the "acquisition, retention, use and destruction of