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An Australian judge has been ordered to personally pay damages to a man he imprisoned for contempt following "a parody of a court hearing". The Federal Court of Australia has awarded over $300,000 AUD (around €180,000 or £150,000) to the man, identified by the pseudonym "Mr Stradford", wh

Problems with Scotland’s prison transport service are continuing to have a “significant impact” on the legal system, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has warned. Prisoner transport firm GEOAmey, the company contracted to transport prisoners and young people in custo

An MSP is pushing ahead with a law that would create a specific offence of abducting dogs, despite the fact this is already a crime. The majority of responses to a consultation on a proposal to create a specific offence for the theft of dogs, including from numerous dog charities, are supportive.

The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable Isthmus of Panama, in South America, in the late seventeenth century is remembered even now as a human and financial disaster in Scottish history. The grand plan of William Paterson, whose earlier plan

Stacey Webster has joined BBM as a qualified solicitor having finished her traineeship. Ms Webster is taking an extended break to travel before returning to work in the firm's Wick team in 2024.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has been ordered to pay £75,000 in costs after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) found it made an "essential mistake of law" in its unsuccessful prosecution of solicitor Amie Tsang. Ms Tsang was accused of failing to advise hundreds of clients

Thorntons has launched its latest charity wills fundraising drive in support of Cash for Kids. Taking place across its offices in Edinburgh, Fife, Dundee, Perth and Angus, Thorntons waives its usual fee for creating wills throughout the month of September, asking clients to instead make an equivalen

Murray Beith Murray has appointed Alec Stewart as new partner. Mr Stewart will join Murray Beith Murray partners Ruthven Gemmell, Peter Shand, Andrew Paterson, Sophie Napier and Fraser Scott within the firm’s asset protection group in September.

Motorists were warned to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates containing five million bees onto a road west of Toronto. Constable Ryan Anderson, who was at the scene, said: “Crates were literally on the road and swarms of bees were flying around. The initial beekeeper tha

TC Young has announced that Karen Fulton has joined the firm as a partner in its residential property team. She was previously a partner at Bird Semple and most recently was head of residential for Scotland at Blackadders. She is now looking to focus on her core areas of Glasgow and the central belt

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Guatemala arrests anti-corruption lawyer, prompting international outcry | Al Jazeera

The UK Supreme Court has received and determined applications for permission to cross-appeal in the following cases, often referred to as the Rwanda appeals: No further applications for permission to appeal are expected to be received.

The son of a couple who sold part of their farmland to the Highland Council as part of a road development has been unsuccessful in an action seeking declarator that he had an unrestricted servitude of access over adjacent land also acquired by the Council during the construction process. Alasdair Ma

A recording of John Kerry’s address at the Signet Library on 24 August 2023 is now available. The recording is divided into chapters:

The Court of Session has refused a complainer’s leave to appeal a decision of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) that his complaint was not eligible for investigation. Commenting on the decision, Gillian Martin, case investigations manager, said: “We’re pleased with th