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Rhoda Grant MSP MSPs yesterday rejected another bid to tackle demand for commercial sex through an amendment to the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill.

Roger Mackenzie Digby Brown has announced that family lawyer Roger Mackenzie has joined the firm.

Anne Begg, manager at PSPC The Perthshire property market has "turned a corner", according to the Perthshire Solicitors Property Centre (PSPC), which says it is enjoying its best Summer in several years.

On 29 September the European court of Human Rights (ECtHR) invited the Russian government to submit its observations on the admissibility of a new inter-state application lodged by the government of Ukraine on 27 August 2015, under Article 33 (inter-state cases) of the European Convention on Human R

A Florida couple have invited strangers to attend their big day after being inspired by a Holywood film. Shelly Osterhout and her fiancé Paul Johnson are opening their doors to the public and are planning for about 1,600 guests.

A High Court judge has made a “gagging order” prohibiting the media from publishing details of the divorce proceedings between Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton. Mr Justice Mostyn continued a previously imposed reporting restriction order to prevent the press from reporting witness statements o

A father who left his baby daughter brain-damaged after shaking her and throwing her down on to a couch in a “deliberate and violent assault” has had his seven-and-a-half year prison sentence reduced following an appeal. The Criminal Appeal Court quashed the sentence and imposed a custodial term

An Italian man has been arrested after calling in a bomb threat to a major airport — because he didn't want to miss his flight. The unnamed 46-year-old's flight was minutes from take-off when he decided to phone emergency number 112 and claim he "heard two Arabs say that they had put a bomb on boa

Michael Gove The Justice Secretary, Michael Gove is to enact radical changes in the penal system by transferring more power from Whitehall to prisons themselves.

The European Court of Human Rights has today launched a multilingual Twitter accountECHRPublication reserved for news on case-law publications, translations and the HUDOC case-law database. Registrar Erik Fribergh said: “Over recent years the Court has stepped up its efforts to improve the underst

Sir Jeffrey Jowell Proposals to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 will pose problems for the UK's constitutional settlement according to a legal expert.

From left: Joanne Romanis, Brian Inkster and Robert Wild (photo taken by Rob McDougall)

Leigh Kirkpatrick, a solicitor at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh, has won this year’s “Law Society of Scotland In-House Lawyers’ Group Rising Star Award”. The award was presented at the Law Society’s Law in Scotland Conferencereception, along with a presentation to the Scottish La

Laura Irvine Laura Irvine writes on the importance of complying with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Anthony Maton The European Commission has come under pressure from lawyers to release further details of a €1.8 billion fine paid by eight major banks over the Euribor rate-rigging scandal two years ago.