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New laws to strengthen the rights of carers will be debated by the Scottish Parliament for the final time this afternoon. Mental health minister Jamie Hepburn met young carers at Edinburgh Young Carers Project this morning ahead of the stage 3 debate of the Scottish government’s Carers Bill at Hol

A top judge has said the lack of diversity in the judiciary should be addressed by schools and policymakers. Wendy Joseph QC said the UK's “white, middle-class, middle-aged, male” courtrooms are not representative of the communities they serve.

The judgment in a case in which snack van operators successfully challenged a Scottish local authority ban which prevented them from trading near schools has been published. A number of street traders sought to reverse a decision of the defender, North Lanarkshire Council, to prohibit snack vans sel

Lord Pentland The UK's three law commissions have called for a new legal framework for the conduct of elections and referenda in an interim report published today.

John Swinney Many thousands of homeowners will be hit by the second homes levy due to come into effect in the coming months.

Joe FitzPatrick The Scottish government has said its plans to increase transparency around lobbying have been “enhanced” with the commitment to a two-year review of its widely ridiculed lobbying legislation.

(L-R): Bruce Beveridge, Nicola Gray, Leonie Donald, Musab Hemsi, Neil Morrison, and Caroline Docherty The most recent successful candidates for The WS Society’s Signet Accreditation programme were presented their awards by the chair of the Signet Accreditation board, Bruce Beveridge WS and deputy

Gavin Buchan Gavin Buchan has joined Lindsays as a partner in the commercial property team based in Edinburgh.

Ross McKenzie Ross McKenzie warns that the way organisations handle personal information will need to go through some significant changes in the coming years to accommodate the biggest change to the data protection regulatory framework since the early nineties.

Police in Japan are investigating the theft of hundreds of hand straps on subway trains in Tokyo used by standing passengers. Authorities have no idea why the straps are being taken but at least 400 have been removed from trains since November according to the Kyodo News Service.

A man who exchanged a number of “grossly offensive” and “indecent” jokes with a friend on a social networking site about the death of a child and made sexual remarks about children has successfully appealed to have his name removed from the sex offenders’ register. The Criminal Appeal Cour

A solicitor advocate whose wife, daughter and another driver were killed in a car crash while he was at the wheel has been found not guilty of causing their deaths at Inverness Sheriff Court. Andrew Houston's Audi A4 hit a Jeep on A9 in July 2013. His wife, Abigail, 42 and daughter Mia, seven, as we

Plans to include video-conference communications with MSPs in the Scottish government's lobbying proposals have been welcomed by Law Society of Scotland – though it noted the absence of provision for other forms of communication at this stage. Brian Simpson, policy officer at the Law Society said:

Lorna Jack The Law Society of Scotland is seeking solicitors’ views on the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission's (SLCC) draft operating plan and budget for 2016/17.

Scotland’s first summary sheriffs have been appointed as part of the major modernisation of the court system. The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 created a new judicial office of summary sheriff to deal with some types of civil and criminal cases in the sheriff court. The move is part of the gov