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Martin Sinclair, partner at Mackinnons, reflects on the career of retiring colleague Denis Yule and wishes him well for the future. After 50 years of distinguished legal service within the profession, Denis Yule, solicitor with Mackinnons Solicitors LLP has decided to fully retire.

A police officer in Hollywood has been sacked after accidentally broadcasting the sound of him having sex while on duty at Universal Studios. Colleagues frantically tried to contact the officer, who has not been named, after the steamy encounter was picked up on a hot mic.

Judicial salaries have been frozen for a year, new figures from the Ministry of Justice show.

Judges in Scotland are most concerned with the loss of respect for the judiciary by the government and attacks on it by the media, while a significant proportion is even considering leaving the bench in the next five years, a new survey has revealed. The 2020 UK Judicial Attitude Survey shows that 8

A Glasgow based company has admitted a health and safety offence after an employee fell through a fragile plasterboard ceiling, sustaining life-changing injuries. Alfa (Wholesale) Limited, a wholesale grocery, catering supply and household goods company, pled guilty to a contravention of Sections 2(

The criminal bar has welcomed a decision by ministers to withdraw their plan for trial without jury, and vowed to help “find a temporary solution to this temporary problem”. The Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA) had strongly condemned a provision in the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called for action to tackle the lack of gender balance in Scotland’s justice system. It follows a freedom of information request by the party and comes as Lady Hale retires as President of the Supreme Court this week.

Expenses paid to justices of the peace will not be disclosed following a ruling by the information watchdog, STV reports. JPs can claim travel and other expenses but the Scottish Information Commissioner (SIC) Daren Fitzhenry has rejected a freedom of information request intended to reveal details o

25 November 2019 might later be judged a significant date for supporting victims of crime in Scotland. Nobody would dispute that victims of crime should receive support, but opinion may be divided on the fairest way to fund that. Scottish judges and sheriffs will soon have no option but to impose an

Victims of stalking are among those who could get the right to explain to courts how they have personally suffered as a result of crime. A new consultation asks if victims of all serious crimes - including human trafficking, domestic abuse and religiously aggravated offences - should be able to deta

The death has been announced of T Gordon Coutts QC, a former Faculty of Advocates office-bearer and one of the leading counsel of his generation. He was 86. Born and educated in Aberdeen, Mr Coutts was admitted to Faculty in 1959, and took silk in 1973.

Controversial plans to extend the presumption against short sentences have been approved by a majority of Holyrood's Justice Committee. The change was pushed through by seven votes to two, with Tory MSPs opposing the move.

A judge has warned that plans to increase the presumption against short sentences to 12 months could affect those currently sentenced to 18 months, The Herald reports. Lord Turnbull, a former chairman of the Scottish Sentencing Council, told the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee that because a

An international arrest warrant for former Catalan politician Professor Clara Ponsati has been withdrawn. Professor Ponsati, 61, an academic at St Andrews University, was arrested in March after she handed herself in to Police Scotland.

Holyrood’s Justice Committee has found that the proportion of remand prisoners in Scotland is high, particularly amongst female prisoners, where remand prisoners account for almost a quarter of the total female prison population. The committee also found that time spent on remand can result in