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Police Scotland has launched a new team in the north east to help tackle cyber-enabled crimes. Based in Aberdeen, the 'cyber-enabled crime team' will work alongside national units within Police Scotland to help develop specialist knowledge locally, enhance investigations and develop preventative str

What is the CMA doing about 'greenwashing'? Scott Rodger explains all. The ethical consumer market in the UK has increased four-fold since 1999 and is now conservatively estimated at over £40 billion per annum. Consumers are actively changing their behaviours in favour of more sustainable

Around 1,600 suspects have been held on remand for over a year awaiting delayed Crown Court trials in England and Wales amid an enormous backlog which a £40 million cash injection has failed to resolve, according to reports. There are 40,000 cases waiting to be heard in the Crown Court –

Ye gods, what do not attorneys and attorneys' clerks know in London! Nothing is hidden from their inquisition, and their families mutely rule our city.

A widower has been ordered to return his late wife's estate after breaking a clause in her will preventing him from remarrying. The man, known only as Constantino, was taken to court in Spain by his late wife's sister in a row over an alleged affair, The Times reports.

Fine art prints of British artist Stephen McClean’s paintings of the exterior and interior of Edinburgh’s iconic Parliament Hall are to be published and signed by the Lord President to raise funds for the Lawscot Foundation.

The Lord Chief Justice has suggested making juries smaller to deal with the mounting backlog of criminal cases. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Lord Burnett of Maldon said “an opportunity was missed to introduce a temporary reduction in jury size” at the onset of the pandemic last year.

Murgitroyd IP, the international intellectual property business headquartered in Glasgow, has made two senior appointments to its leadership team. Helen Archibald has been appointed chief operating officer and Joanne Lecky is to be the managing director of the company’s trade mark group. They

A woman whose doctor negligently led her to believe she was not a carrier of a hereditary disease has had her appeal against a decision that the doctor was not liable for all the costs associated with raising her child refused by the Supreme Court. The appellant, Ms Meadows, gave birth to a chi

Last month saw the completion of 442 sheriff solemn cases, a figure that is 103 per cent of the average pre-Covid level. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has published today the ninth monthly workbook to show the throughput of criminal cases in our courts.

Society should adopt asynchronous legal hearings, Professor Richard Susskind has said. Speaking at an online conference hosted by the Judicial Institute for Scotland on what lies ahead for civil justice, the legal futurist laid out developments in the court system that he expects to see.

Scotland’s new law officers have been sworn in at a ceremony at the Court of Session. The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, and Solicitor General for Scotland, Ruth Charteris QC, were nominated by the First Minister and then unanimously approved for appointment by the Scottish Parliament last we

A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of 21 tonnes of pistachios valued at more than $100,000. California man Alberto Montemayor, 34, of Montemayor Trucking, was arrested after an audit of Touchstone Pistachio Company found that 42,000 pounds of the seeds were missing.

With 30 September signaling the termination of furlough support from the UK government, barring any change of heart, it is inevitable that many employers will be reducing headcount, writes Stuart Robertson. Before your business goes down the path of reducing staff numbers, there are important p

Any unwillingness to learn mathematics today can greatly restrict your possibilities tomorrow.