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Sixty-nine per cent of adults in Scotland either do not have a will or have one that is out of date, a national will-writing charity has revealed.

The International Bar Association has called on Mongolia to arrest Vladimir Putin as the Russian president begins a visit to the country. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Mr Putin for the war crimes of unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occ

The Scottish Land Commission has highlighted the opportunity to further develop crofting as a key component of Scotland’s land reform programme. Welcoming a consultation which proposes updates to the Crofting Act, the commission emphasised crofting’s vital role in "diversifying land owne

A local council in South Korea is offering cash incentives to young people who strike up a relationship following a local matchmaking event. Busan's Saha district office is offering 1 million won (around €675 or £570) to any couples that form after a mass blind-dating event to be hosted b

Brodies LLP has announced the appointment of banking and finance partner James Wilson to the firm. Mr Wilson has spent more than two decades in practice, having worked in London, Brussels and Sydney, with clients in the US, Australia, Malaysia, China, Indonesia and the UK. He has extensive experienc

The UK government has suspended around 30 out of some 350 arms export licences for military equipment to Israel. A review commissioned by foreign secretary David Lammy is said to have concluded that the items – which include components of "fighter aircraft, helicopters and drones as well as it

The English High Court of Justice has struck out an action purporting to bring a representative claim on behalf of passengers of around 116,000 flights with two UK airlines whose flights were cancelled at short notice and who did not receive compensation after determining that the claim was primaril

The High Court of Justiciary has imposed a fresh sentence on a man who fired a shotgun into a property in Glasgow and later threatened a police officer with a gun after the Crown challenged the original sentence as unduly lenient. David Docherty, who had been imprisoned on other charges since 11 Sep

Martin Griffiths OBE, the former UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, gave the keynote address at this year’s Scottish Global Dialogues at the Signet Library. Scottish Global Dialogues is a joint initiative of Beyond Borders Scotland and the WS Society, which brings a speaker o

Holiday park operator Pontins has apologised for discriminating against Irish Travellers as it begins to implement an action plan developed with Britain's equality watchdog. In February, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published an investigation into Pontins and served the company wi

With weeks to go before new legal obligations are imposed on employers to take “reasonable steps” to prevent the sexual harassment of employees through the Worker Protection Act 2023, HR teams are being urged to prepare for the changes. Employment law specialists at Aberdein Considine wi

A former Dundee solicitor has been ordered to pay a woman £4,000 in compensation after being struck off earlier this year. Alan Baillie, 66, was ordered to pay Lorraine Ludman in the wake of a case over a land ownership dispute in Argyll.

Dundee lawyer Alain Baillie, 66, has been struck from the roll after his second misconduct case in a decade. Mr Baillie had a conflict of interest while acting in a land ownership dispute in Argyll.

Sweden's self-declared "Queen of Trash" is facing the country's biggest-ever environmental crime prosecution. Bella Nilsson, chief executive of now-defunct waste management business NMT Think Pink, is accused along with 11 others of dumping or burying 200,000 tonnes of waste between 2015 and 2020, t