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Justice secretary Michael Matheson MSP Almost £640,000 in extra public funding is to be awarded to twelve community projects working to tackle women's offending in Scotland.

Scottish Water has reappointed CMS Cameron McKenna and DLA Piper to their commercial legal team following a public procurement exercise. The publicly-owned water company has also appointed BLM and Anderson Strathern for litigation advice, and Lindsays and Anderson Strathern for conveyancing.

A Scots lawyer who was jailed for embezzling thousands of pounds of clients’ money has been struck of the solicitors’ roll for professional misconduct. Steven Crommie, who was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment earlier this year after pleading guilty to the offence, “deliberately and repeated

Prime Minister David Cameron The UK government could restrict the voting rights of Scottish MPs through a change to Parliament's standing orders, according to a senior government source.

Law Society president Andrew Caplen The Law Society has expressed concern about the survival of the justice system in England and Wales as the government moves ahead with plans to reduce fees for solicitors in criminal legal aid cases.

Hello Kitty and Minnie Mouse came to blows in New York's Times Square following a dispute over tips. The New York Daily News reports that people dressed as the characters began fighting before being led away by police.

Burness Paull has been named "Exemplary Employer of Choice" at The cHeRries Awards 2015, which recognises excellence in human resources, recruitment and training in the north east of Scotland. The judges were impressed by “Burness Paull’s ability to create a new and attractive employment culture

A very unexpected but welcome surprise greeted a Faculty delegation on a visit to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The visit co-incided with the hearing before the Grand Chamber of the Jean Charles de Menezes case.

Kenneth Shand Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (MMS) has promoted 40 of its lawyers.

Justice secretary Michael Matheson MSP Justice secretary Michael Matheson will not intervene in the police investigation into the death of Sheku Bayoh and has rejected calls for the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) to be given new statutory powers.

A transcript of a passage of Tommy Sheridan’s cross-examination of Andrew Coulson during the former MSP’s perjury trial was inadmissible in evidence at the trial of the ex-editor of the News of the World for allegedly making false statements under oath. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the e

The Faculty of Advocates has raised a fundamental question over planned legislation for Scotland which aims to alter attitudes to apologising – where is the evidence from anywhere in the world that such laws are an effective means of bringing about the desired change? Under the Apologies (Scotland

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is hearing the case of a Brazilian man who was killed by police in 2005 on the London Underground after he was mistakenly identified as a suicide bomber in the wake of the London bombings. The case has been brought by Patricia Armani Da

Alistair Carmichael MP Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael will face a legal bid from four constituents who want to see him ousted from his seat over allegations of lying.

Sir Stephen House Sir Stephen House, the chief constable of Police Scotland sparked a row between the police and the judiciary after he criticised a sheriff for making “unsubstantiated comments” at the trial of one of his colleagues last year.