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BTO Solicitors' Caroline Carr and Laura Salmond are to serve as Scotland’s primary ambassadors for the Mackrell International legal network.

A former Boys Brigade leader and youth football coach has been jailed after historically abusing seven boys in his care. Craig Menzies targeted his victims at various locations across Scotland between 1986 and 2004. The 55-year-old met four of his victims when he was a unit leader with the 118th Boy

Kennedys, which has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, has reported record revenue of £384 million for financial year 2023/24 (FY24), a 17 per cent increase on the previous financial year and the tenth consecutive year of revenue growth. North America saw the most significant growth, with reven

Jones Whyte associate solicitor Rebecca Devine has received a STEP Excellence Award. The accolade is awarded to the top scoring students at distinction level in the STEP exams globally, underscoring Ms Devine's exceptional expertise and dedication in the field of trust law.

The missing postal ballot issue could go to court as losing candidates or disenfranchised voters challenge the results. Candidates and voters have 21 days following the results to apply to the Election Petitions Office in order to challenge the outcome.

A part-time dog walker has been imprisoned for five months after a dog and its six puppies – four of which had to be put down – were left in squalor in his faeces-ridden flat. One puppy was found to have a broken jaw, and another was suffering from two healing leg fractures where the bon

A farmer in Dingwall who contended that a public right of vehicular access existed over a road created by Highland Council on land compulsorily purchased from his parents has won an appeal before the Inner House of the Court of Session against a decision that no vehicular rights existed. Alasdair Ma

A man who carried out a campaign of violent and sexual offending lasting more than two decades has been jailed. Brian McGlashan, from Perth, was found guilty of eight charges following a trial at the High Court in Dundee on June 5.

Two sheriffs have been appointed to the Sheriff Appeal Court from the reserve list. Sheriffs David Young KC and Joan Kerr have been appointed as appeal sheriffs by the Lord President, Lord Carloway.

Rudy Giuliani, former federal prosecutor, New York City mayor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, has been disbarred in the state after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Mr Trump's 2020 election loss. The decision, handed down by a New York Appeals Court in Manhattan, states tha

Proposals to ensure that every school pupil in local authority or grant-aided schools can attend a course of residential outdoor education are to be scrutinised by the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee. If passed, the Schools (Residential Outdoor Education) (

Deputy chief constable Bex Smith has been appointed as the Scottish Sentencing Council’s new constable member. DCC Smith brings a wealth of experience to the council with over 20 years of policing experience drawn from a range of nationally significant command functions.

An IP judge has granted a request by a chemicals company that entered into a joint project with the University of Glasgow ordering the university to produce documents relating to activity by a linked company that it averred was using technology derived from patents previously assigned to it. Deepmat

A man has been jailed for four months after being found in possession of a small replica of the Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda video game series.