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The police recorded 65,251 incidents of domestic abuse in 2020-21, an increase of four per cent compared to the previous year. This is the fifth year in a row this figure has shown an increase.

A former tennis player who claimed a newspaper had defamed him in a story that mentioned his tax affairs has failed in his Article 8 appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. The court found that as the newspaper article had been a mixture of value judgment and supported factual statements, it h

Barbados has become the world's newest republic after formally breaking ties with the British monarchy while remaining in the Commonwealth of Nations. Dame Sandra Mason, a Barbadian lawyer and former judge who served as governor-general of Barbados from 2018, has assumed the presidency of the countr

Households experiencing financial difficulties are being offered support through a new website. The Money Support Scotland website, funded by the Scottish government, will point users to a range of organisations committed to promoting the take up of social security benefits, free debt advice and acc

Protestors demanding repairs to public toilets have stormed their town hall and urinated in all corners of it. Around 15 people took part in the novel protest at the municipal council office in Gadag-Betageri in the state of Karnataka in southern India.

Social media is giving us intellectual diabetes.

Thorntons has been re-appointed to the Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) framework agreement for legal services. The single lot framework covers five key areas of expertise – including commercial business, property & estates, HR, charity and international matters &n

Macdonald Henderson has advised the shareholders of specialist polymer supply business Hardie Polymers on an MBO of the company, led by Izy Ferguson and Bartosz Komanski, and backed by the team at Nevis Capital. Former owner, Fergus Hardie, remains as a shareholder and director but will take a step

The High Court of Justiciary has upheld the decision of a preliminary hearing judge in respect of an application by a man charged with three counts of rape to reject the introduction of evidence concerning events following the sexual encounter described in the third charge, including legal proceedin

Derek Auchie, professor in dispute process law the University of Aberdeen, is the newest mediator to join Squaring Circles, a specialist mediation, negotiation and online dispute resolution business, and winner of the National Mediation Awards Newcomer of the Year Award 2020. With a career spanning

A 53-year-old gamekeeper has been fined for killing an owl and a goshawk. Peter Givens, a gamekeeper from Stow in Galashiels, was fined £300 after pleading guilty to a charge under Section 1(1)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Selkirk Sheriff Court yesterday.

The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association has organised a protest outside the Scottish Parliament on the St Andrew’s Day public holiday on 6 December. The occasion will mark a year since the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bar Associations took joint action and will coincide with a boycott of the holiday

A book in memory of the late Lord Kerr is being published this week.

Mao died aspiring to exterminate Chinese culture. His Cultural Revolution alone killed as many as two million people, shattered traditions, uprooted spiritual and ethical values, and tore apart family ties and communal loyalties. People who experienced it seal off the memory, for the pain, worse th

A new process to investigate prison deaths has been welcomed "in principle" by Justice Secretary Keith Brown. In November 2019, then Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf asked Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland (HMCIPS) to review the response to deaths in pr