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Groundwork is due to begin today on Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness, the Press and Journal reports.The news comes after confirmation of a demolition warrant for a derelict bus garage on the site at the Longman industrial estate following approval by Highland Council.

For the academic year 2017–18, the Stair Society will offer one or more one-year bursaries of £1,000 to postgraduate students who are enrolled in a Masters or PhD programme and who are preparing a thesis in Scottish legal history, broadly construed. At the time of application eligible postgraduat

The SYLA committee

Lady Scott At the High Court in Glasgow today, Lady Scott discharged Daniel Cieslak absolutely after the accused pled guilty to the rape of a 12-year-old girl.On making the order for absolute discharge, Lady Scott made the following statement below in court.

A US federal judge has snuffed out a flatulence discrimination lawsuit filed against a popular New Jersey pork roll company. The plaintiff in the case claimed that the meat processing firm fired her 28-stone husband because he had uncontrollable flatulence.

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed two new Senators to the College of Justice on the recommendation of the First Minister. Sheriff Paul Arthurson QC and Alan Summers QC will sit as judges in the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary.

Dundee Sheriff Court (Credit: Google Street View) A paralegal who embezzled more than £40,000 from the estate of her ex-husband’s great aunt has been sentenced to 13 months in jail.

The Aberdeen Law Project (ALP) has announced Dame Anne Begg DBE (pictured right) as a patron and the promotion of third-year law student Sophie Mills to the position of student director. Miss Mills becomes the project’s seventh student director, succeeding Louise Sloan who is graduating and intend

Julie McKinlay Advocates were to the fore in appointments by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS).

Professor Jane Mair triumphed in a light-hearted bake-off competition between University of Glasgow Law School researchers this week.

Lord Neuberger Human rights have been a “new toy” for lawyers which they have favoured over the common law, the President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger has said.

Partner Nicola Gray and senior partner Keith MacRae

The New York Supreme Court, in a case unrelated to White House shenanigans, will sit today to rule on whether chimpanzees deserve to be accorded the rights of "personhood". Two chimpanzees, Tommy and Kiko, are to be represented by the Nonhuman Rights Project in the appellate division of the court, w

David Strang An inmate at one Scottish prison lived in a tent for eight weeks after his release and deliberately reoffended in the hopes of being caught and imprisoned again so he would have “ a dry bed, warmth and shelter”, a new report states.

Margaret Meehan