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The US Supreme Court has introduced a new rule to prevent male justices from interrupting their female counterparts during oral arguments. Justice Sonia Sotomayor revealed the change at an event at New York University’s law school on Wednesday. Justices will now be allocated a time for uninter

Pubs, restaurants, woodlands and a church are to be brought into community ownership and use through new funding. More than £1 million of the Scottish Land Fund is being awarded to eight local community groups to help them take ownership of the land and buildings that matter to them.

The Crown Office should consider dropping low-level drugs cases, an American attorney who championed similar changes in the US has said. Marilyn Mosby, who oversaw a radical shift in prosecutors' approach to drugs in Baltimore, Maryland, called on ministers to ensure that plans to arrest those in po

Ariane Burgess MSP, convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee Agenda, is urging Scottish residents to have their say on short-term lets legislation. Scotland has some of the most beautiful natural scenery in the world. It is no wonder that plac

And cowards will have the reputation of bravery and the brave will be cheerless like cowards.

A Glasgow man who helped another repair a bicycle realised that the stranger had stolen it – from him. John Devlin, 64, helped Paul Hartey fix the handlebars on the stolen bike before he realised it was his own that had been stolen by Hartley earlier in the day.

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has unveiled a planned overhaul of the Human Rights Act. Speaking to The Telegraph, Mr Raab said the European Court of Human Rights was imposing too many "obligations on the state" as opposed to defending individuals from "undue interference".

A sheriff in Livingston Sheriff Court has found that a charge under Section 1 of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour against an accused’s ex-partner was able to be sufficiently corroborated by Crown evidence. The accused, JH, was charged with str

The apparent implication is that the legislation has been drafted in terms which deliberately exceed the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, with reliance being placed on the courts to impose corrective limitations in individual cases.

Hundreds of barristers have left the criminal courts since 2016, prompting fears of a shortage. Lawyers told The Times that low legal aid rates and delays caused by the pandemic have led to an exodus from the profession.

Homeless Project Scotland has revealed that it has helped more than 50 rough sleepers on the streets of Glasgow city centre in the last two weeks. A number of these individuals experiencing homelessness were recently released from prison and said there is an issue with men being released late in the

UK law firms' fees and profits are exceeding expectations this year, a report from PwC shows. Its 30th Law Firms’ Survey showed that just under three-quarters of firms reported an increase in fee income with 76 per cent seeing profit increases. The findings are consonant with the figures from

On 15 October 2021, Sheriff Martin Edington sat for the last time at Livingston Sheriff Court as its senior sheriff. After more than 20 years on the shrieval bench, Sheriff Edington will officially retire on 27 October. From 1999 until 2003, Sheriff Edington presided as a temporary sheriff, then an

Shoosmiths has announced partner David Jackson is to become its CEO from next May. Simon Boss, who remains CEO at Shoosmiths alongside chairperson Peter Duff, did not stand for re-election.

The Crown Office has paid out £35 million over its malicious prosecutions relating to Rangers FC, its accounts show. The 2020/21 accounts, laid before Holyrood last week, show that £40.5m of taxpayer money has so far been earmarked for Rangers-related cases.