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Thomson Reuters has expanded its legal know-how and legislative resources for the Scottish legal system. The new resources include the Scots Law resource centre on Practical Law and the addition of Scottish bills on Westlaw UK. The Scots Law resource centre introduces a growing suite of up-to-date l

A professional swimmer who was accused of raping a woman following a night out in Cardiff has been acquitted. Otto Putland, 24, who represented Wales in the 2014 Glasgow games, denied raping the woman after she had sex with his friend, Olympic swimmer Ieuan Lloyd.

A lawyer accused of exchanging sex for legal services has been sentenced to 80 years’ imprisonment. Mark Benavides, 48, was found guilty on six counts of trafficking by the jury in San Antonio, Texas.

The Faculty of Advocates has announced that this Saturday’s Tumbling Lassie Ball at Edinburgh’s Prestonfield House is a sell-out, and will be attended by some 340 guests. The purpose of the ball is to raise funds for charities fighting against modern slavery and people trafficking. It will be pr

Labour has today unveiled plans for a ‘paws clause’ to allow elderly vulnerable people and the homeless to keep their pets in care homes, temporary and supported accommodation. Environment spokesperson Claudia Beamish wants to assess the benefits and challenges of making it the norm for pets to

The statutory body established to safeguard the standard and reputation of Harris Tweed has been awarded £25,000 damages in court after a retail chain infringed its registered marks. The Harris Tweed Authority (HSA) launched the legal action following concerns that a number of retail outlets were u

More than 80 people attended last night's launch of a new Tayside-based collaborative platform co-founded by a Dundee solicitor.Societay has been set up by Thorntons solicitor Chris Gardiner, alongside Andy McGill and Daniel Rosie, to bring together individuals and businesses from different sectors

The UK's top 100 law firms achieved fee income growth of 7.7 per cent in the quarter ending 31 January 2018 compared with the same period last year, according to the latest Quarterly Legal Sector Survey by Deloitte. Higher revenues this quarter have been driven by average increases in fee earner hea

A former hospital consultant who stored a cache of deadly weapons at his home has been jailed for 12 years. Martin Watt, 62, was convicted last month of possessing firearms with intent to endanger life. He had previously pled guilty to a host of other firearms charges.

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, which oversees the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments, closed a record number of 3,691 cases last year, leading to a 24 per cent decrease in the total number of outstanding cases. There were 7,584 pending cases at the end of 2

The UK’s biggest police force is to ditch a policy of believing all rape complainants following a series of embarrassing failures into alleged sex crimes, The Times reports. Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, has told officers to have an open mind when an allegation is m

Acting on recommendations from UK-trained torture investigators, Bahrain’s Attorney General has requested that the country’s highest court reconsider the death sentences handed to two men convicted on the basis of forced confessions obtained through torture. Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa wer

A viola player whose hearing was seriously damaged at a rehearsal of Die Walküre in 2012 has won a landmark High Court case against the Royal Opera House. On September 1, 2012, Chris Goldscheider suffered irreversible damage to his hearing after noise levels exceeded 130 decibels, equivalent to a j

Scullion LAW has promoted practice manager Shanna McDiarmid to executive director of the firm. Ms McDiarmid, from Hamilton, has been with the firm since 2004.

Police in the UK should not be allowed to access individuals' phone data without a search warrant, privacy campaigners have said. At least 26 forces in England and Wales are using technology to extract data from phones – while Police Scotland has trialled extraction technology but said it does not