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Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC Two UK government departments have declined to publish legal advice given to the Prime Minister before he gave the go-ahead for drone strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.

John Scott QC, chair of the Advisory Group on Stop and Search A lawyer who chaired a government-appointed group tasked with drawing up reforms for stop and search has said it could take years for officers to become familiar with the new rules.

Law Society president Jonathan Smithers The Law Society has responded to a Ministry of Justice consultation on proposals to close 91 courts and tribunals, which is one fifth of courts and tribunals across England and Wales, and integrate or merge 31 more.

The Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland Legislation that would tackle the rise of so-called "revenge porn" and modernise the law around domestic abuse has been published by the Scottish government.

A lawyer has attempted to bag a date with a woman by serving her with a subpoena.

Three Romanian priests were caught stealing the hand of a dead man in Greece. However, this was no ordinary dead man's hand – it was the hand of a saint.

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has said people must be able to access justice without having to instruct lawyers. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd made the comments in New Zealand, one of the jurisdictions he is visiting on his Magna Carta tour.

Fishermen have launched an application to secure protected name status for the Orkney crab. The European Union scheme protects certain food names on grounds of geography or recipe to safeguard them against imitators.

Holyrood's Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee has issued a call for written evidence as it prepares to scrutinise the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Bill. The objective of the bill is to replace the Short Assured Tenancy and Assured Tenancy by introducing a new single tenancy fo

Richard Lochhead Legislation to protect Scotland's livestock from Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) has come into effect.

Tim Whewall BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme has investigated a "mind-bogglingly" complex financial scam which has seen Europe's poorest country robbed of $1 billion – with the trail leading to an ex-council flat in Edinburgh and fraudsters who have availed themselves of the Scottish Limited P

Ewan MacLeod The Scottish government’s announcement that it would be putting in place a moratorium on granting planning permission for underground coal gasification (UGC) projects until the outcome of a potentially lengthy independent investigation could result in claims under the European Convent

Mike Dailly Mike Dailly suggests an unequal relationship between tenants and landlords means many of the former are leading lives of misery.

Dame Elish Angiolini New laws on burials and cremations will mean another Mortonhall baby ashes scandal will never reoccur it has been claimed.

Lord Phillips Over 340 leading ex-judges and lawyers have criticised the UK government's response to Europe's refugee crisis in an open letter published in The Times.