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A man who promoted a banned far-right Neo-Nazi group online has been given an extended 15-year prison sentence for terrorism, firearms, public order and drugs offences.  Alan Edward, 55, was jailed for 10 years and will serve another five years on licence after being sentenced at the High Court

An engineering company has been fined after a labourer died during the construction of a wind farm on the Shetland Islands. Liam MacDonald, from Tain, Ross-shire, lost his life on the morning of 5 June 2022 while removing dried concrete from a skip at the Viking site on Upper Kergord.

The study of crime in a specific area is hardly a new idea: famously, Jack House wrote The Square Mile of Murder, which has its own Wikipedia page, about four classics of the genre in Glasgow. Neither is the study of crime in wartime a new idea, as can be seen in the bibliography to this new contrib

More victims of crime are to receive support through a fund financed by penalties imposed on offenders. More than £1.1 million from the Victim Surcharge Fund (VSF) will be shared among 12 organisations that support those impacted by crime.

The biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history is "even wider than first thought", a solicitor has said. Hundreds of postmasters and subpostmasters across the UK were wrongly accused of theft based on data provided by the faulty Horizon accounting system used by the Post Office.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. US violating law to fund Israel despite alleged human rights abuses, lawsuit says

A sheriff has imposed a three-month anti-social behaviour order on the tenant of a council flat in East Kilbride after finding he had acted aggressively towards his neighbours and threatened a member of the council’s staff over the phone. South Lanarkshire Council applied for an order in respe

While commemorating Scottish lawyers who fell during the two World Wars, we reach a sad anniversary on Christmas Eve regarding the death of Major Ernest Alexander Maclagan Wedderburn (otherwise known as Sandy). Major Wedderburn died 80 years ago on 24 December 1944 as a result of a tragic accident.

Over the course of 2024, Scottish Legal News published more than 240 articles in our popular And Finally section – sharing offbeat and weird legal news stories from around the world. But which were the most popular? Read on to find our most-read And Finallys of 2024.

Digby Brown Solicitors recovered a record £160 million in compensation for clients last year. Accounts for 2023/24 show the firm helped people after high-profile incidents like the Stonehaven derailment and the first jury trial win in seven years at the Court of Session.

Rod Maclean takes a look at a high-profile family squabble. Media business magnate Rupert Murdoch’s family’s public drama regarding ownership is perhaps the biggest family business law story of a generation. Beneath the glitz lies a classic archetype of succession squabbles. Families &nd

Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband and 50 other men have been convicted of rape and other offences in the French mass trial which made global headlines. Dominique Pelicot, 72, who drugged and raped his then wife, also 72, and arranged for other men to come to their home to rape her while she was dru

ESPC has announced the graduation of its SPC Property Practice Certification students, with a 100 per cent pass rate. Forty-three students from across 23 of ESPC’s chartered solicitor estate agency member firms committed to gaining the qualification in 2024, with every student passing their ex

Japanese crime syndicates have reportedly begun using Pokémon trading cards to launder vast amounts of money. The former head of a crime syndicate told Japanese magazine Shunkan Gendai that his organisation used the cards to transport stolen money abroad, according to a translation published