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The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has renewed its call for a better solution to deal with solicitors unwilling or unable to comply with their regulatory duties. It follows a court hearing in which a solicitor was questioned on why they had not provided timely access to a file needed to

A fully updated second edition of Roddy Macleod’s Contentious Executries: Commissary & Executry Litigation in Scotland is available to order now. First published by Sweet & Maxwell in 2022, the book covers a wide range of issues which arise in contested executry cases and more generall

A march will take place on Human Rights Day next Tuesday to call on the Scottish government to reintroduce the Scottish Human Rights Bill. Organisers and participants are urging the Scottish government to bring the bill back and to MSPs to pledge their commitment to the bill, prioritising it in thei

Kirkcaldy solicitor William MacGregor has joined the board of directors of Raith Rovers. Mr MacGregor, a graduate of Aberdeen University, worked at local firms in Kirkcaldy before founding his own business, MacGregor Solicitors, in 2001. He was a board member of the club in 1997 and opened the MacGr

The average selling price of property across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders saw a 5.3 per cent boost during September-November 2024, compared to the same time last year, taking the new average price to £286,263, new figures from ESPC show. All regions (with the exception of East

Russell Bradley has joined Westwater Advocates. Mr Bradley returns to full-time practice having been a fee paid employment judge in Scotland for the past four years.

A former soldier has lost an English Court of Appeal challenge against a refusal to allow him an appeal against the decision that a condition that he developed in both his calves after he left the army had not been caused or made worse by his military service. Christopher McCalla, who served in the

A Michelin-starred chef has urged thieves who stole thousands of pies in a Christmas heist to donate them to charity. A refrigerated vehicle carrying "nearly a tonne" of pies worth around £25,000 was stolen on Sunday night before it was meant to deliver the pastries to a Christmas market in Yo

A judge in the High Court of Justiciary has concluded after an examination of the facts that a man with significant learning difficulties had murdered a woman in West Calder and attempted to conceal the crime by disposing of incriminating effects. The accused, Michael Porchetta, was deemed unfit for

Payments to people in receipt of benefits will be protected from inflation after the Scottish Parliament passed the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill.

The prison population increased by six per cent in 2023-24 to 7,860 on the average day. The increase in the prison population was primarily driven by an increase in the sentenced population (+8 per cent since 2022-23).

The Scottish Law Commission has recommended changes to the law on damages in Scotland in a new report. According to statistics presented by the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, personal injury claims were the third most common type of civil law action in Scottish courts in 2022-23. It is therefore

A conman who cheated friends, online dating partners and a pensioner out of thousands of pounds to finance his internet gambling habit has been jailed for more than three-and-a-half-years. Michael Higgins, 42, of Livingston, West Lothian, fraudulently obtained a total of £18,225 from 15 victim