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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.

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.

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demand for commercial property in Scotland rose in the last quarter, driven by an uptick in the office subsector, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) commercial property monitor. But there are signs of some caution amidst rising uncertainty and fiscal tension.

Attorney General Lord Hermer has blamed the collapse of the Chinese spying prosecution on outdated espionage laws in the UK. He said that prosecutors had acted in good faith in attempting to secure convictions against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry – both of whom deny any wrongdoing &n

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

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