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A drugs courier who tried to smuggle cocaine worth up to £5.6 million into Scotland hidden inside two large suitcases has been jailed for 10 years. Kristopher Purvis, 35, ferried 15 packages containing the Class A drugs from Mexico to Edinburgh Airport along with another man in July 2024. But

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Merseyside-based DPP Law Ltd (DPP) £60,000, following a cyber attack that led to highly sensitive and confidential personal information being published on the dark web. The ICO found DPP failed to put appropriate measures in place to

Police who pulled over a car going more than 100mph discovered the passenger was a bride late for her own wedding. Body cam footage released by police in Port St. Lucie, Florida shows the short conversation which followed the police pulling over the car, which was well over the 45mph speed limit.

A sales manager from Yorkshire has been jailed for 12 years for serious sexual assaults and abuse carried out while he was living in Scotland. James McCall, 49, from Pudsey in Leeds, was found guilty of nine charges including four of rape and two of assault. The High Court in Glasgow heard that

The Supreme Court has ruled that the term “woman” as it appears in the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to persons who were born female and does not include transgender women, after a challenge to a Scottish gender representation act and its associated statutory guidance was brought to th

A mother whose parental authority over her daughter was terminated just four months after the child was taken into foster care suffered a violation of her right to respect for her family life, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Ruling yesterday on a Dutch case, the Strasbourg court found

The Law Society of Scotland has furthered its commitment to sustainability by partnering with the global climate network, the Legal Sustainability Alliance (LSA). Building on the Law Society’s sustainability hub, the partnership with the not-for-profit organisation offers Scottish solicitors a

The bland generalities, often of pure hatred, in a war of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ take on a different perspective when faced directly with one of the enemy. A live prisoner of war may attract sheer animosity, or worse, but the remains of a dead combatant, by definition not exuding

Harper Macleod has announced the appointment of two new partners to its family law team. Jane Blackwood and Linda Walker bring a wealth of experience and expertise to their new positions within the firm. They both have accreditations from the Law Society of Scotland in family law and family mediatio

Law Society of Scotland executive director Kevin Lang has been appointed as its interim chief executive. Currently executive director of external relations at the Law Society, he will take up the interim post when Diane McGiffen steps down from Monday, 28 April.

A Hamilton sheriff has found that a defender in an action for disqualification from directorship was in contempt of court after he took photographs of witnesses for the pursuer and posted them alongside derogatory comments about the weight and integrity of one of them on two social media accounts. G

Lawyers have been urged to resign from a law firm after it made a deal with Donald Trump. A former lawyer at A&O Shearman, Olivier Fréget, called on his ex-colleagues not to each be an “accomplice” in Trump’s crackdown on the legal sector as the firm came to an agreement

First Minister John Swinney will this week convene a meeting to examine the resilience of Scotland’s democracy.    Political, faith and community leaders will be brought together to assess the robustness of Scotland’s democratic system by examining root causes that "might under