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Murdo Fraser The Scottish Conservatives today warned the new Finance Secretary that LBTT rates must be reduced to avoid "virtual stagnation" at the top end of the market.

A scientist and an academic have proposed creating robot sex brothels to undermine demand for human sex trafficking. Futurology specialist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars have co-authored a paper proposing robot sex workers as a means of tackling human trafficking and STI transmission.

A ban on wearing headscarves in companies may be admissible if it is based on a general company rule which prohibits political, philosophical and religious symbols from being worn visibly in the workplace to ensure religious and ideological neutrality, in the opinion of an advocate general of the Co

DWF has completed its move into new premises at 110 Queen Street in Glasgow, which will see the firm’s circa 90 Glasgow-based employees with a new, open-plan working environment. Located at the centre of Glasgow’s business district, 110 Queen Street is BREEAM rated excellent and has secured high

Neil Stevenson The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has been made an official partner organisation of 50:50 by 2020 and in the same month has been accredited as a Living Wage employer.

Vikki Melville Reform of third party rights is very much overdue, writes Vikki Melville.

The Law Society of Scotland has welcomed the announcement that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has recommended the appointments of James Wolffe QC as Lord Advocate and Alison Di Rollo as Solicitor General. Eilidh Wiseman, president of the Law Society of Scotland, said: “I congratulate both James Wo

Around 180 judges from Brazil are finding out about the Scottish legal system during a four-day visit. The Association of Brazilian Magistrates (AMB), which represents all levels of the Brazilian judiciary, chose the United Kingdom as the venue for its second International Congress.

Kevin Engel Business confidence levels in Scotland have fallen into negative territory for the first time in almost a year, making them among the lowest in the UK according to the latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor survey.

The man found guilty of the murder of Elaine Doyle, who claimed that the jury’s verdict was “unreasonable”, has had an appeal against conviction refused. John Docherty, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 21 years in 2014 for the 1986 murder, also argued that the m

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has stunned the US legal profession by attacking a sitting federal judge as "a hater of Donald Trump". In a bizarre tirade, Trump himself said: "Everybody says it, but I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He's a hater."

A magistrate was not entitled to impose a driving ban on a motorist convicted of driving while using a mobile phone and without insurance having already determined that “exceptional hardship” had been established, the Sheriff Appeal Court has ruled. Daniel Hamand successfully appealed against hi

The Council of Mortgage Lenders’ (CML) latest research of the interest-only mortgage market has revealed that the number of outstanding mortgages extended under such terms has fallen by almost a third over the past four years. The number of outstanding interest-only loans dropped from around 3.2 m

Two key advisers on the sale of BHSto Retail Acquisitions were asked to reveal their fees yesterday. MPs responsible for overseeing one of the two inquiries into the BHS fiasco, have called for the two key advisers involved to reveal how much they were paid for their work in the sale.

Ahead of a showdown in the Commons next week, the Home Secretary, Theresa May (pictured right) has made concessions over the so-called "Snoopers’ Charter" including a restriction on the use of mass surveillance. Ms May has made the changes to assuage the concerns of the Intelligence and Security C