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Lord Kinclaven, the founder of the Faculty of Advocates’ MiniTrials, has received an OBE at an investiture ceremony in Buckingham Palace. The award, for “Services to the Scottish Legal System in Schools”, was announced in the New Year Honours.

Alan McDonald (pictured) explains a decision on enforcement of assigned standard securities. It has always been commonplace, particularly in recent years, for secured lenders to assign the benefit of standard securities in their favour. It is also perfectly normal for portfolios of such securities t

Lord Carloway Paul Arthurson QC has been installed as a Senator of the College of Justice at a ceremony in Parliament House, taking place on the bench with the title Lord Arthurson.

A woman who was seeking compensation for “distress” after she was photographed urinating on an Aberdeenshire golf course owned by U.S. President Donald Trump has failed in her claim. Carol Rohan Beyts, 62, was seeking £3,000 from Trump International Golf Links Scotland, claiming staff had breac

Pictured (clockwise from left): David Cairns, Jennifer King, Andrew Phillips and Eileen Sherry.

Zibya Bashir Zibya Bashir gives an overview of the Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 and Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Pursuers' Offers) 2017, which comes into force today.

New rules modernising how fatal accident inquiries (FAIs) are carried out will come into force in June. The rules set out how inquiries are to work in practice and aim to make them more efficient.

The latest civil justice statistics, published by Scotland’s Chief Statistician today, show that 77,721 civil law cases were initiated across the Court of Session, sheriff courts and the newly established Sheriff Personal Injury Court in 2015-16 (excluding summary applications). This is a rise of

A convicted drug dealer could have his sentence extended by 34 years after authorities caught his girlfriend trying to smuggle methamphetamine to him in jail – concealed in a Holy Bible. Stephen Jason Estes, 41, was in a county jail in Mississippi awaiting transfer to a state prison when his girlf

A police officer responding to reports of a cow loose on the motorway quickly established its whereabouts when he hit it with his car. Daniel Steven Schulz, 30, was searching for the cow at around 10pm on Monday and unexpectedly encountered it fifteen minutes later.

Margaret Mitchell The Scottish government is sitting on £1 million worth of empty courtrooms, while around one in six Police Scotland buildings are not in daily use,

Oral evidence should continue to be the norm at fatal accident inquires, although there is scope for witness statements, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. In a consultation on draft rules for the Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016, the Scottish Civil Just

A man found guilty of sexual assaulting a woman who claimed there was insufficient evidence to corroborate her account of lack of consent has failed in an appeal against conviction. The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court refused the appeal by Craig Wilson after ruling that the evidence of distres

The latest edition of the Scottish Civil Justice Council's newsletter is now available and includes an update on ongoing work and recent rules. The council approved the following appointments:

The Criminal Appeal Court has called for a review of the legislation and guidelines on sentencing for those convicted of making and being in possession of indecent images of children after quashing the extended sentences imposed on three men who were found with hundreds of pictures and videos depict