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The Post Office has paid lawyers a quarter of a billion pounds in legal fees over the Horizon scandal, close to the amount given to victims. The state body paid out £256.9 million to 15 law firms and two barristers’ chambers between September 2014 and March 2024, according a freedom of i

A man who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a judge's daughter in Northern Ireland appealed directly to Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1969, a new file reveals. Iain Hay Gordon, from Glasgow, was found “guilty but insane” over the murder of Patricia Curran in 1952.

Foreign cybercriminals could be extradited as part of a crackdown on the rise in young people being targeted for sextortion – the practice of blackmailing them over sexual images. Gangs, often based in west Africa, trick teenagers into sending intimate pictures of themselves to fraudsters who

‘Necrogamy’ might sound deeply unpleasant, but in fact refers to a lawful practice in France — one of the only jurisdictions in the world to allow, in certain circumstances, posthumous marriage between a living person and their deceased partner. And Mrs, a bittersweet dark comedy

A former Police Scotland officer who subjected three former partners to a campaign of controlling, violent and sexual abuse has been jailed. Christopher Ferguson was found guilty of nine charges on June 13 following a trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court.

Increasing deadly attacks against Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine State bear a "terrifying resemblance" to the atrocities of August 2017, Amnesty International said ahead of the seventh anniversary of the crisis. “As the seven-year anniversary of the Rohingya crisis nears, the horri

Turcan Connell partner Grierson Dunlop has been awarded associateship of the Royal Agricultural Societies by the Council for Awards of Royal Agricultural Societies, recognising his contribution to agricultural and land-based industries. The council acts on behalf of the UK’s four national Roya

The Sheriff Appeal Court has passed a Bill of Suspension by ruling that a convicted person allegedly in breach of a Restriction of Liberty Order imposed by the SAC could not have that order revoked by a lower court and replaced with a sentence of imprisonment. Complainer Thomas Kitson had been made

The Law Society of Scotland is launching a new award to celebrate legal pioneers within the sector as part of its 75th anniversary commemorations. Nominations for the Legal Pioneer Award are open to both solicitors and non-solicitors - past or present - who have made a significant contribution to Sc

Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been dismissed by the morality police for failing to grow beards. The Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue fired the beardless men – who are among 13,000 people who have been detained for immoral acts

Garden Stirling Burnet has opened an office in Leith.

Morton Fraser MacRoberts has been awarded bronze in the TIDE Awards, which evaluates an organisation’s performance in diversity and inclusion. The award highlights the firm’s achievements in diversity, inclusion and belonging across eight key areas: workforce, strategy and planning, lead

Four lawyers from Clyde & Co’s Scottish offices have praised the firm’s global exchange initiative, after spending a week at its international offices in Boston, Doha, Melbourne and Sydney. Out of 50 lawyers to successfully secure spaces on the 2024 programme – open to associat

An appeal by a 99-year-old woman convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 10,505 people when she was secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp has been rejected. Germany's Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a