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A woman who called the police to report someone had broken into her home was left red-faced after cops identified the "burglar" as a Roomba. She told emergency services that she could see shadows moving under her bathroom door - but it turned out to be her robotic vacuum cleaner.

On Wednesday Strathclyde University Law School unveiled its tribute to the late Professor Joe Thomson, who had been its chairman between 1985 and 1990.

The percentage of High Court trials adjourned due to lack of court time has declined. The figure fell from 2.2 per cent in 2014/15 to 0.9 per cent for the first three quarters of 2018/19 – a drop of 1.3 percentage points, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) statistical bulletin sh

The High Court of Justiciary has published its reasons for rejecting an application for permission to appeal by a man found guilty of posting a “grossly offensive” video online showing a “Nazi dog”. Mark Meechan, who was fined £800 for breaching the Commu

Greenock solicitors are to have their first female dean of the town’s faculty of procurators. Jill Carrick was appointed dean of the Faculty of Procurators in Greenock, the first woman to take up the post in the organisation’s 200-year history, at the faculty’s annual general meeti

After an outstanding legal career spanning nearly 40 years, Susan O’Brien QC is retiring from practice today. Ms O'Brien was a solicitor for six years before calling to the bar in 1987. She took silk in 1998 and has enjoyed a busy and distinguished practice across a wide range of civil litigat

Professional searcher firms owe a duty of care to creditors who have registered an inhibition, the continuing effectiveness of which depends on it being disclosed by the search carried out, the Sheriff Appeal Court has ruled. The court refused an appeal by a firm of searchers, upholding a

A former football coach who abused boys was today jailed for four years. Francis Cairney, 83, committed the offences against boys as young as 12 between 1965 and 1986.

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of Sean Connelly to the High Court of Justiciary. In accordance with the commission’s statutory obligations, a statement of reasons for its decision has been sent to the High Court, Livingstone Brown Solicitors and the Cr

Two advocates appeared on television this week to discuss a recent high profile criminal case. Benchmark Advocates' Edith Forrest and Thomas Ross QC commented on PF v Christopher Daniel on STV's Scotland Tonight.

A London-based company has admitted a health and safety offence after a falling barrier struck a young girl at a shopping centre in Glasgow. Arcadia Group Ltd, a multinational retail company, pled guilty to a contravention of Sections 3(1) and Section 33(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. A

A motorist who was jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to a charge of drink driving having been caught more than seven times over the legal limit has had his sentence reduced following an appeal. The Sheriff Appeal Court quashed the original sentence imposed on the basis that it was "incom

Nearly £800,000 in compensation has yet to be collected from Scottish offenders on the foot of court orders since 2011, according to new figures. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), responding to a Freedom of Information request from The Herald, confirmed that nearly nine per cen

Dr Karen Baston looks at a particularly acrimonious legal dispute from the eighteenth century over the use of a garden. In February 1760, advocate Walter Steuart presented a petition to the Court of Session on behalf of his client, John Grieve, a taylor in Potter-row. [1] The petition was part of a

A man who was fined for uploading footage to the internet of his dog performing a Nazi salute has failed in a bid to appeal to the Supreme Court. Mark Meechan, 31, was prosecuted following the publication of a video entitled "M8 Yer dug's a Naazi" which featured the dog raising its paw in respo