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An elderly woman has been questioned by police after she filled in a crossword – not realising it was a piece of modern art. The unnamed pensioner, who is 91, was questioned under caution after doing the crossword, which is valued at €80,000 (£67,000).

The gavel, a device never used in the English courts, features on the cover of Confessions of a Barrister – and is a harbinger of things to come.

It may surprise some readers that the last Communard of this title is not Jimmy Somerville, the shrill voice of the 1980s, but Adrien Lejeune who as a young free-thinker reluctantly took the side of the Commune revolutionaries when the people of Paris rose up against the reactionary French governmen

Plans by the Scottish Government to remove the Crofting Commission from the list of tribunals in the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 have been supported by the Faculty of Advocates.

The number of people appearing in Tayside and Fife courts on charges of stalking has soared to more than twice the level of just two years ago. The numbers were revealed under a freedom of information request by The Courier. Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court has seen the biggest surge in cases, with three tim

Kate Frame The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has begun two new investigations.

A benefits claimant trying to check his benefit balance was shocked to be put through to a premium sex line when he rang the number on the back of his electronic benefit card. In an unfortunate misprint on some cards the number provided put callers through to a live chat line.

A father who claimed that his daughter was “coached” to make false accusations that he sexually abused her has failed in his appeal against a sheriff’s decision to refuse his application for contact with his child. The sheriff had ruled that it was in the child’s “best interests” to refu

An Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has found that a company policy requiring an employee to remove her Islamic headscarf when in contact with clients constitutes unlawful direct discrimination and that an entirely neutral dress code policy may also constitute in

Gavin McEwan of Turcan Connell writes about the changes charities will see after Brexit. Charity law and regulation are matters which have remained largely within the control of the UK and Scottish parliaments, with little interference from Europe. As a result, there are no major upsets on the legal

Professor Lorraine Radford The cost of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry which has become mired in controversy since its launch last year has already reached £1.8 million.

Professor Laurence Gormley A record number of commercial and business-related disputes were sent to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) last year.

Gregor Mitchell HBJ Gateley has announced the appointment of a private client specialist to bolster their Private Client team across Scotland.

The National Prisoner Healthcare Network has called for a pilot study to be set up to examine the practicality and validity of introducing screening for head injury in prison to identify prisoners who may have committed crimes because of historic injuries. Research has shown that the risk of violent

The widow of a scuba diving enthusiast who was killed in an accident will not be able to pursue her claim for damages against the owners and operators of a vessel from which her late husband fell and drowned, after a judge ruled that her negligence claim was “time-barred”. The Court of Session h