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Colm Dempsey, Kevin McCallum QC and Nicola Patrick have been appointed to the office of sheriff on the recommendation of the First Minister. Nicola Sturgeon made her recommendations for appointment on the basis of a report by the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.

A free book exploring the law and practice of the Northern Ireland protocol has been published online. Edited by Professor Christopher McCrudden of Queen's University Belfast (QUB), the book was produced in "close partnership" with the Office of the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.

Ian Beattie, chief operating officer of Lindsays, has spoken of his pride after receiving an MBE from the Princess Royal. Mr Beattie was awarded the honour for services to athletics after a long competitive and voluntary career in the sport. He became chair of UK Athletics in October, having held th

Pakistan has sworn in its first female Supreme Court judge. Ayesha Malik, 55, will sit alongside 16 men on the country's top court. She was educated at the Pakistan College of Law and Harvard University and has served as a judge in the city of Lahore for the past two decades.

The Scottish Parliament has been warned that it could face legal action if it passes legislation banning ‘conversion therapy’, based on the “bias” and "inadequate scrutiny" of the issue by a committee of MSPs. The warning has been delivered in a letter from The Christian Inst

Criminal barrister Chris Daw QC has said prisons do not work when it comes to reducing crime and that many should be shut down. Mr Daw shared his views with host Byron Vincent in new podcast Justice, Disrupted, produced in association with Community Justice Scotland. “I would close almost ever

Increasing the role land plays in Scotland’s tax base and a local authority power targeted at newly derelict property are among the recommendations put to government ministers in today’s report on how Scotland’s land could be taxed better. The Scottish Land Commission was tasked wi

The tragic death of a teenager from carbon monoxide poisoning at a holiday cottage will be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry. Thomas Hill, 18, was found unconscious at Glenmark Cottage, near Tarfside in Angus, which it transpired had faulty gas heaters.

More than £2.3 million has been generated to fund legal action in Scotland through online donations, according to new figures. The first study into litigation crowdfunding reveals almost 78,000 people have donated cash to support cases through the Scottish courts.

Lindsays has welcomed Aziz Yasin to its commercial property team in Edinburgh as a banking and finance solicitor. Mr Yasin advises banks, borrowers and peer-to-peer lenders in relation to general property finance matters, real estate acquisitions and development finance. He is involved in the prepar

Hundreds of holidaymakers experienced an unexpected end to their trip after their cruise ship changed course to avoid seizure by US authorities. The Crystal Symphony was bound for Miami, Florida but docked at Bimini in the Bahamas after a US judge said the luxury liner could be seized in a dispute o

Scottish Trans has been given permission to intervene in a case seeking to overturn guidance planned for the next Scottish census in March. The group argues that the change to the guidance would breach trans people’s human rights to dignity and privacy. The guidance is provided for those who n

UK universities have attracted a record number of non-EU students applying to study both law and combination courses in the last year, a freedom of information request has revealed. The number of non-EU students applying to study law at UK universities has increased by 238 per cent over the last dec

A Glasgow sheriff has granted the son of a deceased man who was adopted as a baby in 1933 access to his adoption process after ruling that the confidentiality of the application was governed by previous adoption legislation. The applicant, JH, made the application in a bid to learn his birth family

The Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee, Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, and Social Justice and Social Security Committee are coming together to hold two special sessions looking at the actions taken to reduce drugs deaths and problem drug use in Scotland. The sessions, w