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John Morgan, a trainee solicitor at Brodies The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association and the WS Society have announced that the winner of their Writing Competition for 2015 has now been found.

A gay man has been awarded compensation in what is thought to the first discrimination case to be brought against a service provider for the homophobic actions of its staff. When “Tim” (not his real name) asked for a refund on some patio locks, the shop assistant began to abuse him. A judge at S

A woman who describes herself as a witch priestess took a warlock to court over harassment claims – and won. Lori Sforza, who leads a pagan church and runs a witchcraft shop in Salem, Massachusetts, filed for court-ordered protection against Christian Day, referred to on his website as the “worl

Professor Alan Miller The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has published its Annual Report for 2014-15.

Andrew Parker The head of MI5 has said he would like a mature debate on the intelligence services' interception of communications data.

Police Scotland are getting five requests a day under a domestic abuse law that gives worried individuals information on the potentially-abusive pasts of their partners. Clare's law was rolled out at the beginning of October and saw 109 disclosure requests between 1 and 21 October.

Ian Maxwell Ian Maxwell discusses changes enacted this week to the family court system.

Aberdeen Solicitors’ Property Centre Limited, in cooperation with the University of Aberdeen, Business School, Centre for Real Estate Research, has published statistics for the third quarter of 2015 relating to the Aberdeen housing market. The report is based on a "constant quality" methodology. T

Ben Bestgen With the rise of using social media for brand-recognition and brand-promotion purposes, many clients wonder if a logo or slogan that starts with or includes a "#" can be trademark-protected says Ben Bestgen .

Clockwise from left: Archie Gemmell (football), Louise Martin (chair, sportscotland),Rhona Martin (curling), Ken Scotland (rugby) and Margaret McEleny (swimming).

Proving they have green fingers as well as sharp legal brains, the management board of Pagan Osborne have been digging deep to transform a charity garden.

A man in West Virginia was escorted to prison recently after attempting to sing Justin Bieber songs in a school and subsequently at a daycare centre reports WSAZ 3. A sixth-grader at the school, Gracie Powers, said that everyone was “freaked out” but luckily the police apprehended the man.

Two “predatory paedophiles” sentenced to life imprisonment for murder who claimed the prison service denied them the opportunity to visit each other in jail have failed in a claim for damages. A judge in the Court of Session rejected the gay couple’s petition for judicial review, in which they

Following Holyrood's Justice Committee’s consideration of interim regulations for legal aid funding for cases appearing before the new Sheriff Appeal Court this week, the Law Society of Scotland has welcomed the transitional arrangements. The original objections to the proposed rates were highligh

Addi Shamash The number of Scottish firms failing in the third quarter of 2015 fell by 8.6 per cent to 180 from 197 according to analysis of the latest figures by Morisons LLP.