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A business owner who conned dozens of customers out of more than £100,000 by breaking promises to build garden sheds and summerhouses has been jailed for three years and four months. Alistair Baxter, 36, took thousands of pounds for the work from almost 70 people, some of them pensioners in th

House prices in Scotland rose over the past three months at the slowest rate seen since early 2024, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, and respondents expect this weaker price growth trend to continue in the short-term amid an increase

Shakespeare Martineau has announced 16 promotions, including one in Scotland. Dual-qualified legal director Nicky Grant, who is based in Edinburgh, has been promoted to partner and head of the commercial real estate team.

Calls for the establishment of a civil legal assistance office and a university law clinic in the Forth Valley will not be enough to solve the region's "legal aid desert", Scottish Legal News has been told. Earlier this week, a new report from Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) raised co

A woman who was compared to Darth Vader at work has won nearly £30,000 from an employment tribunal. The NHS blood donation worker had temporarily left a room when her colleagues decided to take a personality quiz which would tell them what Star Wars character they were, the tribunal heard.

A prisoner convicted on indictment of possession of offensive weapons at Perth Sheriff Court following a trial at which he was unrepresented has lost an appeal against his conviction. Appellant Richard Mullen maintained that allowing the trial to continue following the dismissal of his solicitor and

A High Court judge has referred solicitors and a barrister to their professional regulators after discovering that five non-existent case citations were knowingly submitted to the court in a judicial review. Mr Justice Ritchie said the lawyers involved in Ayinde, R v The London Borough of Haringey h

Hostilities ended in Europe 80 years ago today on 8 May 1945. This was commemorated as Victory in Europe Day (VE). Along with everyone else, the legal profession in Scotland was impacted by the deaths of a number of its members. To remember those who died, the WS Society compiled a list of their mem

A new University of Stirling academic journal dedicated to sharing research on human rights aims to influence policy and decision makers in the UK and worldwide. The University of Stirling Human Rights Journal (USHRJ) is the first of its kind in Scotland.

The EU’s sweeping reform of product liability law contrasts sharply with the UK’s more tentative approach, write Paola Sproul and Mark Gibson. The EU and the UK are undergoing significant overhauls of their product liability regimes, primarily driven by the need to address challenges pos

Criminals who refuse to appear in court for their sentencing hearings could face up to two additional years in prison and stricter conditions behind bars, under new powers to be granted to judges across England and Wales. The measures – to be introduced in the UK government’s Victim

Lord Penrose, a former senator of the College of Justice, has passed away after a long illness. There will be a celebration of his life at a service at Cramond Kirk on Tuesday 13 May at 2:30pm, to which all are invited.

Haseltine Lake Kempner has announced that Dr Lauris Kemp has joined the firm as a partner in its chemistry and life sciences team in Glasgow. As an experienced UK and European patent attorney, she holds a degree in immunology and biochemistry and followed this with a PhD and postdoctoral position in