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The Law Society of Scotland has launched a new group to further boost social mobility across the Scottish legal sector. Legal and education experts are being sought to join the Lawscot Social Mobility Forum to target barriers linked to poverty, class and social outcomes that prevent prospective and

Inksters Solicitors is now in St Andrews with Kevin Davidson joining the firm as a consultant solicitor. Mr Davidson has over 30 years’ experience as a solicitor. He was a partner in A C Morrison & Richards and then principal of his own firm K.W.A.D Solicitors, both in Aberdeen. Latterly h

A man who was mistakenly returned to custody for a week after a decision to grant him bail was wrongly minuted as having been refused has been awarded £3,325 in compensation after a sheriff ruled that the circumstances of the case did not merit the higher award sought by the pursuer. Duncan We

Documentary series Murder Case will return in February with a compelling new two-part series, focusing on one of Scotland’s most notorious and enduring mysteries – the disappearance of Elgin mother-of-two Arlene Fraser.  On Tuesday 28 April 1998, two young children returned from sch

The UK’s first safer drug consumption facility has registered 575 users in its first year of operation, according to newly released figures. Since opening on 13 January 2025, The Thistle in Glasgow has been accessed 11,348 times, with staff supervising 7,827 injections of illegal drugs. Medica

The High Court has upheld the disbarment of Navjot ‘Jo’ Sidhu KC, rejecting an appeal by the former chair of the Criminal Bar Association against findings of professional misconduct. Mr Sidhu was struck off by the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service after being found guilty of inapp

The Law Society of Scotland is seeking urgent clarification from the Scottish government on why legal aid has again been ignored in the final budget before this year’s Holyrood election. Finance Secretary Shona Robinson announced the 2026-27 budget in the Scottish Parliament on 13 January 2026

A pensioner who taught himself the law to defend the length of grass in his garden has won a five-year battle against local officials. Canadian man Wolf Ruck, 79, told CTV News that he studied law at a postgraduate level in order to pursue his legal action over rules restricting the length of grass

Glasgow City Council has been fined £80,000 after a military veteran sustained life-changing injuries when he was struck by a falling lamppost in the city's west end in June 2023. A 50-year-old man was standing at the roadside in conversation with a work colleague when the lamppost collapsed,

Shared Parenting Scotland remembers the late Sir James Munby. It has been touching and rather uplifting to read the many tributes to Sir James Munby, former president of the Family Division of judges in England and Wales who passed away on New Year’s Day.

The latest House Price Report from ESPC highlights a "well-balanced" local property market across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Scottish Borders, with clear trends emerging in what and where buyers were most keen to secure homes as 2025 came to a close. Based on sales data from October to De

Claudio Visco has been appointed as president of the International Bar Association (IBA). Mr Visco, a senior partner at Italian law firm Lipani Legal&Tax, has succeeded Jaime Carey, senior partner at Chilean law firm Carey.

A football fan who struck one of his own players with a plastic seat thrown from a stand has been imprisoned for 18 months. David Gowans, 32, of Aberdeen, has also been banned from attending football matches for 10 years.

Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns about AI-powered abuse of women and children. The regulator warned that some sexually-explicit images generated and shared by X users using the Grok AI chatbot may amount to intimate image abuse and child