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The Scottish government has been accused of “legalising littering” after a mere 34 of 135,000 reported fly-tipping incidents were sent to prosecutors. Despite incidents being reported in 30 of Scotland's local areas, only eight councils passed cases on to the Crown Office.

A double-bill of short operettas by composer Tom Cunningham and writer Alexander McCall Smith will be performed in Edinburgh in April. All proceeds will go to charities supported by the Tumbling Lassie appeal that help survivors of modern slavery and people trafficking. Dandie Dinmont is the story o

The Edinburgh Tax Network and Chartered Institute of Taxation invite you to join Scottish Government officials and David Phillips from the Institute for Fiscal Studies for an update on developments in devolved taxation. The event will take place on Thursday 10 March 2022 at the Mackenzie Buildi

A politician has received a surprise birthday cake while in the dock. Julius Malema, leader of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters party, was in court in the city of East London charged with firing an automatic rifle in 2018.

A disabled woman who raised three separate simple procedure claims for the reimbursement of money she claimed was owed to her by the City of Edinburgh Council has had all three actions dismissed by the Sheriff Appeal Court following an appeal against their refusal. Chaza Afandi raised three claims w

The Faculty of Advocates has cautioned that amendments to a draft code of practice for continuing and welfare attorneys should be rendered more user friendly lest they discourage people from supporting vulnerable adults. The Faculty was responding to a Scottish government consultation on the terms o

Jan Machielsen, senior lecturer in early modern history at Cardiff University, takes a critical look at Nicola Sturgeon's recent apology to those accused of witchcraft.  On International Women’s Day this year, Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised at Holyrood to

Police officers appearing before the Sheku Bayoh inquiry will not at this time receive undertakings that their evidence will not be used in any future prosecution, the Solicitor General for Scotland has said. At a preliminary hearing over the public inquiry into the death of Mr Bayoh in May 2015, la

A new report reveals changes to Scotland's rural land market and values, amid strong timber prices and rising demand in non-farming leisure estates. The report published today by the Scottish Land Commission shows the Scottish rural land market is characterised by exceptionally high demand but conti

Yesterday marked 20 years since the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FoISA) was passed by MSPs. The vision for the new law was set out in An Open Scotland, the 1999 Scottish Executive consultation where the then deputy first minister, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, said: “At the heart

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Commercial law firm Davidson Chalmers Stewart (DCS) has announced the promotion of Steven McAllister to partner and head of the firm's renewable energy team. Mr McAllister joined the firm in 2019, having previously worked with major commercial terms and as legal counsel at Renewable Energy Systems (

The role that public participation can play in ensuring more people from across Scotland can have a say in the work of the Scottish Parliament is to be investigated by MSPs. The Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee has issued a call for views to organisations and a survey to people a

Five new senators of the College of Justice have been installed at individual ceremonies in Parliament House, Edinburgh. Andrew Young QC, Jonathan Lake QC, Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC, John Scott QC and Michael Stuart QC, were installed in Court 1.

It has more the flavour of a prequel than a sequel as juries return to court this summer. They had been appearing in Odeon venues to watch trials on the silver screen via video link at the height of the pandemic in what was an innovative Scottish production.