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A team of Greenpeace activists installed prison bars around three iconic statues in Parliament Square yesterday to highlight the government’s "apparent desire to cast protesters as criminals and terrorists". The activists imprisoned statues of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and the Suffragist

MSPs have voted to create a law obliging the owners of large landholdings to publish plans on how they will increase biodiversity, as part of the new Land Reform Bill – in what the Scottish Rewilding Alliance (SRA) said is a "big step towards a Rewilding Nation". The SRA has campaigned for the

Paul Motion considers whether motions for dawn raid orders should always be video recorded. Of all orders the Scottish civil courts are empowered to make, arguably the most intrusive, invasive and distressing are orders under Section 1 of the Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1972. These orde

A man who sexually assaulted two young girls after dragging them off the street in a bid to rape them has been jailed for over six years. Regan McClinton followed and attacked both children within less than 30 minutes of each other in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, on 22 April 2023.

Angela Grahame KC has been named a doctor of the university by Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Since she was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1995, she has gone on prosecute major High Court cases, took silk in 2009, and become only the second women in nearly 500 years to be named vice-dea

A sheriff sitting on the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has dismissed seven challenges to the refusal of property valuation changes sought by various Aberdeenshire businesses after a successful appeal against a decision to allow the challenges was made by the Assessor for Grampian Joint Valuation Board

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy denied a US visa | The New Statesman

Burness Paull has become the first law firm to sign up to the Pathways Pledge, an initiative created by Pathways Forward in response to the findings of the Scottish government-commissioned Pathways: A New Approach for Women in Entrepreneurship report aimed at dramatically raising the participation l

I recently found myself in the company of a remarkably sensible chap who was singing the praises of his chosen subject: artificial intelligence. Without question, this would change the world forever, he assured me, and we would all be much better off as a result. We were living in a new age. Medical

An American lawyer furloughed due to the ongoing US government shutdown has started a side business selling hot dogs. Isaac Stein has launched his self-deprecating "Shysters Dogs" while furloughed from his full-time job at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), NPR reports.

Postmasters that suffered shortfalls as a result of the faulty Capture accounting software can now apply for redress as the UK government launches its new Capture Redress Scheme.  The scheme follows the government's acceptance of findings of an investigation by independent forensic accountants

‘Sectarianism’, according to the OED, is an ‘excessive attachment to or identification with a particular religious or political group’: definitions matter, and author Chris Bambery explains contemporary discussions and recommendations in that regard. Mention might also be mad

The Scottish Legal Aid Board’s annual report shows the number of solicitor firms providing legal aid continues to decline. SLAB’s annual report for 2024-25 was tabled in the Scottish Parliament yesterday and showed a five per cent decline in legal aid firms. There are now just 567 firms

Jones Whyte has been named Scottish Top Employer of the Year at The Herald and s1jobs Top Employer Awards 2025.