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Lord Neuberger A Conservative think tank has condemned increasing fees of more than £1,000 an hour charged by City law firms for restricting access to justice.

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.

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.

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

(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

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.

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.

Lawmakers in Washington DC have approved a bill to pay cash to people that city officials believe could become criminals. The scheme is part of the "Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Amendment Act of 2016" (NEAR Act) which was approved at first reading yesterday.

A man jailed for eight years for the rape of two women has had his convictions quashed after Appeal Court judges ruled he suffered a miscarriage of justice. Lord Eassie, sitting with Lady Smith and Lady Clark of Calton ruled that Alan Clark, 40, suffered a miscarriage of justice.

Edinburgh University officials have been forced to scrap a plan calling on tutors to leak private information about students who told them about debt problems. Lecturers were instructed to pass the information of hundreds of students who had fallen behind in their tuition fee payments on to official

A mother who was caught trying to smuggle cannabis from the Netherlands into Germany in what a sheriff described as a “big mistake which has come back to haunt her” will not be extradited to serve a prison sentence. The sheriff discharged a European Arrest Warrant which was issued by the German