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A retired solicitor has been fined more than £4,000 for taking wild birds eggs from a nest on the Orkney Islands. At Kirkwall Sheriff Court 73 year old William Beaton, from Devon, pled guilty to wildlife crimes carried out in late May and early June this year on Orkney.

Jeremy Black The UK’s top 100 law firms have seen a 5.4 per cent increase in fee income over the past year. Figures released yesterday, according to a survey by Deloitte, revealed a generally positive outlook on the financial position of the legal profession.

An innovative system which allows for court documents to be presented on Android tablets was put to the test in the Supreme Court of Ireland yesterday. The bespoke eCourt app, developed by eCúirt Teoranta, was used yesterday during the appeal case of Lannigan v Barry.

A Russian lawyer is taking his ex-girlfriend to court in a bid to have her return the cash he spent on a couple's holiday in Crimea. Nikolai Zyablikov, 38, who is suing Nina Zgurskaya, 29, brought meticulously categorised receipts for flowers, food and drinks to district court in the Siberian city o

In another blow to access to justice in Scotland, Scottish Legal News has learned that the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has withdrawn payment of travel and mileage for shorthand court reporters – a decision which, if not reversed, will deprive legally aided parties outwith the central belt of a

The Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC) is hosting a seminar and drinks reception on 22 June to celebrate its first anniversary. The SWRC offers free legal advice, information and representation to women survivors of gender based violence. The seminar will consider lessons learned from our first

Ladies raise £10,000 for CLAN - over afternoon tea

Eighteen lions will be put on "trial" in India to identify the big cat responsible for killing three people in the state of Gujarat. Police have rounded up the animals, whose paw prints and faeces are now being tested in order to establish the culprit of the tragic attack.

An agriculture apprentice who was banned from driving for two years after driving a tractor the wrong way along a one-way road in the course of his employment in a family farming business has successfully challenged the period of disqualification. The Sheriff Appeal Court allowed the appeal against

A trustee company that sought to prevent a financial services group from redeeming enhanced capital notes has had its appeal dismissed by judges in theSupreme Court. BNY Mellon’s appeal was dismissed by a 3:2 majority. Lord Neuberger gave the leading judgment, with which Lord Mance and Lord Toulso

The trial of a company blamed for the death of a six-year-old boy, which has still not commenced five years after his death, will be delayed even further after the presiding sheriff withdrew, citing connections to the company directors. Aidan Yule, or Sands, from Dundee, was found unconscious at the

Professor Martin Hogg The Edinburgh Law Review has been awarded the "BIALL Legal Journals Award 2016" for the quality of its content and advancement of scholarship in Scots law.

Baroness Molly Meacher Two leading UK public health organisations have called for the personal possession and use of all illegal drugs to be decriminalised.

An employee at the Geneva offices of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak, has been arrested. Last year a whistleblower contacted German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, offering information from the internal files of the law firm. The leak resulted in the resignation

A Scottish council has won a £3 million legal dispute with an insurance firm over the collapse of the Scottish Coal Company. South Lanarkshire Council raised a commercial action seeking payment of £3,117,724 from Aviva Insurance, which the local authority claimed was due under a “performance gua