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A wealthy student at Stirling University had his Maserati confiscated yesterday after he was caught drink-driving for the second time. Chenao Li, who is studying English at the University and is believed to come from a “prosperous” Chinese family had his car confiscated by Sheriff Gillian Wade Q

Solicitors and estate agents McEwan Fraser Legal has been named “Scotland Agency of the Year” at The Negotiator magazine awards where judges praised the firm as “outstanding”.

Karen Wilkie

Mike Polson Ashurst's support centre in Glasgow is set to beat its target of taking on 300 staff by 2018, with plans to double the risk and compliance assessment team The Lawyer reports.

Lord Gill Lord Gill who retired as Lord President of the Court of Session in the summer, yesterday challenged Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee on three separate occasions to make a public declaration of its confidence in the honour and integrity of the Scottish judiciary.

of or fear of future violence would not constitute a reasonable excuse. However matters would be different where a person took possession of a weapon during an incident where he or she was under attack, for the purpose of preventing or discouraging further violence. “It was pointed out to us that

Bosses at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin ordered a full prison lockdown yesterday afternoon when the alarm was raised over a suspicious item discovered on C wing and believed to be a firearm. The Irish Prison Service confirmed that a suspicious item was discovered at around 12.30pm yesterday.

Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre and secretary general of the International Centre for Energy Arbitration(ICEA); the joint energy arbitration project of the centre and CEPMLP at the University of Dundee, has delivered a presentation on a dispute r

Fergus Ewing Scotland’s business minister Fergus Ewing has hailed the insolvency profession’s contribution to the economy at the ICAS Insolvency and Restructuring Conference.

Pupils from schools across Scotland are getting ready to debate the pros and cons of the internet in the opening rounds of the Law Society of Scotland’s annual debating tournament. The Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament will see 128 teams from 102 Scottish schools put their powers of persua

Brenda Mitchell

Linda Marsh

Shyamji Krishna Varma An Indian barrister disbarred over 100 years ago for advocating independence for the sub-continent has been posthumously reinstated by London's Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

Drew McCusker A new organisation for LBGTI legal professionals in Scotland, The Glass Network, has launched.

A French magazine which revealed that Prince Albert of Monaco had an illegitimate son has won an article 10 appeal to theEuropean Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the basis the report struck at the prince's public function which trumped his article 8 right to privacy. On May 5 2005 Paris Match publi