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A housebuilding firm has been fined after instructing workers to carry out land clearance which obstructed and damaged a large active badger sett.

Prison sentences have been imposed on a group of people who interrupted a live inquest in England and attempted to kidnap the coroner as part of a bizarre political plot. Mark Kishon Christopher, leader of the so-called 'Federal Postal Court Judges', was yesterday sentenced to seven years' imprisonm

Dear Editor, Your article in SLN regarding Aamer Anwar & Co's decision to stop taking legal aid cases depicts a very sad situation in Scotland. The fact that that decision has been the result of the Scottish government’s lack of commitment to funding a fair legal aid system and access to j

ESPC Lettings’ head of lettings, Nicky Lloyd, discusses how the Edinburgh rental market has performed six months after legislative change. October marked the first six months of the changed rental landscape in Scotland, following on from almost two years of the restrictions put in place on ten

A Russian court has slapped Google with a fine of around $20 decillion – thousands of times more than the entire world's GDP. The preposterous penalty arises from a years-long court case brought by Russian TV channels which have been banned from YouTube since 2020, partly as a result of US san

The High Court of Justiciary has refused a bill for criminal letters by a woman seeking to privately prosecute her former schoolteacher for what she alleged were indecent practices used against her between 1977 and 1980. Complainer AB alleged that respondent Paul Cooney had used lewd, indecent and l

Edinburgh Law School's Professor Stephen Neff is to deliver a lecture entitled The Art(s) of Moral Globalisation next month.  Professor Neff is a graduate of Harvard University (in sociology) and of the University of Virginia School of Law. His primary research interest is the history of public

Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC has been appointed to serve as the new chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.  She succeeds Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury after his five-year tenure as the expert body’s inaugural chair. 

A man accused of stealing a toddler and trying to take another has been remanded in custody after being charged with plagium. Emmanuel Chukwunedu is accused of targeting the children in two incidents in Dundee.

BBM Solicitors has announced that Rona Plowman has been promoted to legal director with effect from 1 November. She joined BBM Solicitors as a summer student in 2013, before going on to gain a degree in law from Robert Gordon University. She returned to her hometown of Wick to complete her two year

A rare copyright exemption has been granted by US authorities to allow McDonald's restaurants to repair their notoriously unreliable McFlurry machines. Franchise owners have complained that the machines have a "digital lock" preventing third-party repairs from being carried out.

Technical discussions have concluded on an agreement which will allow for closer co-operation between the UK and EU's competition authorities. The proposed agreement will be a 'supplementing agreement' to the post-Brexit EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), which explicitly foresaw the possi

The regulatory body for English solicitors is facing enforcement action in connection with the dramatic closure of Axiom Ince following a damning independent review. Around £60 million in client money was missing and around 1,400 people lost their jobs when Axiom Ince stopped trading in Octobe

The Irish government has been threatened with legal action over its alleged military trade and co-operation with Israel. A legal opinion produced by human rights lawyer Darragh Mackin for campaign group Uplift argues that the government may be at risk of violating a number of domestic, EU and intern