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Nearly half of the UK's biggest law firms last year saw their best revenue results since the financial crisis of 2008. Only 11 firms in the top 100 failed to grow last year, new research shows, with 44 firms recording revenue increase of 10 per cent or more.

A coalition of more than 100 civil society organisations has demanded that the Scottish government fulfil its promise to introduce the Scottish Human Rights Bill. In a letter to First Minister John Swinney, the organisations express their frustration at the bill’s exclusion from the current le

Four of Shoosmiths’ Kiltwalk participants, including Jen Paton (mini kilt) and Andrew Foyle (kilt) at the Kiltwalk Edinburgh finish. On Sunday 13 fit and hardy lawyers from Shoosmiths' office in Edinburgh donned their hiking boots and kilts to join thousands of others for the annual Edinburgh

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has instructed a complete reinvestigation of the 2004 murder of Alistair Wilson in Nairn. A new team of prosecutors from the Crown Office and a new team of officers from Police Scotland will work on the full cold-case investigation.

A lord ordinary has reduced three decisions by the Home Secretary that further submissions made by a family of three who fled their home country for fear that the mother would be subjected to female genital mutilation did not amount to a fresh asylum claim. Petitioners A, B, and C, the latter aged s

Concerns have been raised regarding the inquiry into a £1 billion banking fraud case at HBOS, after it was revealed that evidence is still being received in its eighth year. Former high court judge Dame Linda Dobbs, who was appointed in 2017 to investigate Lloyds Banking Group's alleged cover-

Businesses across sectors have been advised to review their approach to dynamic pricing after the practice drew scrutiny in the context of Oasis’ reunion tour, writes Angelique Bret. A UK and Ireland tour next summer will mark the first time the band’s two most prominent members, br

An unruly passenger whose behaviour forced his plane to divert has been ordered to repay the airline for the additional fuel costs. In an unusual move, a court in Perth, Australia ruled that the 33-year-old man should pay $8,630 AUD (around €5,200 or £4,400) to the airline to cover fuel c

More than a million calls to Police Scotland’s 101 crime hotline have been ignored over the past two years, new figures show. The number is used as an alternative to 999 for the public to report crimes including antisocial behaviour, assaults and vandalism.

Public inquiries should be given a clear deadline in their terms of reference to avoid unnecessary and excessive costs, a House of Lords committee has recommended. The Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee has today published a report urging a major overhaul of the way public inquiries are set up and

Changes in lending practices have seen RSLs move away from their traditionally cautious approach to managing interest rate fluctuations to explore more complex options, writes Derek Hogg. Scottish registered social landlords (RSLs) can be a cautious breed. Indeed, when it comes to exposure

The annual Red Mass to mark the beginning of the new legal year in Scotland takes place on Sunday 22 September at noon. The mass will be celebrated in St Mary’s R.C. Cathedral, Broughton Street, Edinburgh, and the principal celebrant will be the Most Reverend Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St Andr

Advocate General for Scotland Catherine Smith KC has welcomed a new panel of standing junior counsel to deal with UK government work arising in the Scottish courts. The appointments, which have been approved by her, are as follows:

A woman who used a voice-changing application to sound like a man during a stalking campaign has been jailed for two years and four months. Adele Rennie, from Kilmarnock, pretended to be a male pharmacist when she matched with her victim on the dating platform Tinder in August 2023.