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Traditional legal systems around the world are increasingly ill-equipped to cope with the fast-moving impact of climate change on communities, new research warns. Courts and authorities who control planning and local services must follow rigid rules which are based around people’s rights and e

Govan Law Centre (GLC) has called for a Holyrood inquiry into the impact of council-owned property companies on voluntary organisations, warning that current practices risk forcing vital community services to close. GLC has written to members of the Scottish Parliament’s Social Justice, Housin

First Minister John Swinney has lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament seeking agreement to recommend to His Majesty The King that Ruth Charteris KC and Brian Gill KC, known as BJ Gill, be appointed as the new Scottish law officers. Subject to Parliament agreeing the motions, draft warrants will

A Moroccan court has fined a football supporter 10,000 dirhams (about £2,000) after he repeatedly called a club president a “donkey” in Facebook posts criticising his management of the team. The court in Kenitra ruled that the term amounted to an insult under Moroccan law, although

Thorntons has been appointed by the judicial factor to manage the wills, property titles and powers of attorney previously held by Brunton Miller, following the closure of the Glasgow and Helensburgh-based law practice in October 2025. Thorntons will also assume responsibility for ongoing executry w

The High Court of Justiciary has more than doubled the custodial sentence of a man who along with another detained an individual in a property and repeatedly struck him with knives and improvised weapons after a Crown appeal against the sentence’s leniency, after finding that the trial judge&r

Followers on SCN’s popular LinkedIn platform have surged through the 34,000 mark for the first time, delivering even more value for advertisers - and last month the free daily newsletter attracted a further 147 subscribers, while unique visitors to the SCN website were up to over 94,000. The f

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), infrastructure consultancy Amey and the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) are collaborating on a two-year initiative to support the development of a training solution aimed at placing and retaining construction workers back into the industry upon release

The UK economy contracted by 0.1 per cent in April, official figures show, as the conflict in the Middle East began to weigh on growth and energy prices climbed following Iran's closure of the strait of Hormuz. The fall in gross domestic product, which economists had anticipated, followed a 0.3 per

A PC owner says a gaming computer may have saved their life after a neighbour’s dog accidentally discharged a firearm, sending a bullet through a wall and into their bedroom. Posting on Reddit, the user said they were woken by a loud bang and shattered glass. Their neighbour later arrived dist

Children under 16 could be barred from major social media platforms under UK government plans that would use facial age-scanning technology to enforce the restrictions. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to unveil proposals to raise the minimum age for access to platforms such as TikTok, Sn

The landowner of a sporting estate in the Borders has lost an appeal in the Sheriff Appeal Court against a decision to exclude six of its eight heads of claim in a £1 million action arising from the early termination of a shooting lease after the court agreed with the sheriff that most of the

House prices in Scotland have continued rising, according to the balance of respondents to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, albeit at a more modest rate than has been seen previously. A net balance of 12 per cent of surveyors in Scotland report th

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of Rajiv Sharma to the High Court of Justiciary. In November 2022, the applicant was convicted of a contravention of section 3 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009.

A decade on from the Brexit referendum, UK Finance has published a report, produced with Freshfields, setting out its vision for the future relationship between the UK and EU in financial services.