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Scottish house prices saw a 4.3 per cent year-on-year increase in June 2024, reaching an average of £192,000, and outpacing the UK average growth, according to Registers of Scotland. As compared with the previous month, house prices in Scotland were unchanged on a non-seasonally adjusted basis

A rapist who sexually abused six young girls and two women over the course of 43 years has been jailed. Michael Conway was found guilty of 14 charges on June 11 following a trial at the High Court in Livingston.

Criminal defence solicitor Anna MacKay has been promoted to senior associate director at Scullion LAW. She said: “I am delighted to accept this promotion, and I am grateful that my hard work has been recognised by the team and the firm. I look forward to taking on new challenges and helpi

A man suing Disney for the alleged wrongful death of his fiancée has been told suing breaches the terms of his Disney+ subscription. Disney's lawyers raised eyebrows internationally by telling a New York court that Jeffrey Piccolo had agreed to handle all disputes with the company through arb

Scottish charity RSABI is extending its thanks to the 135 or so competitors, and support team members, who are set to take part in this year’s Great Glen Challenge, sponsored by Gillespie Macandrew.

Ireland's Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded a record €550,000 to a former Twitter employee who was sacked after failing to click a button in an email from Elon Musk shortly after he acquired the company. Gary Rooney, former source-to-pay director at Dublin-based Twitter Internati

The Scottish Prison Service has been urged to stop routine body-searching of female inmates following an inspection of a new £85 million “therapeutic” jail. Chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, made the recommendation after an inspection of the female pri

Scots lawyers have long made the case for overhauling the legal aid system but, with the Scottish government agreeing only a small number of fee uplifts since it commissioned a review of the sector close to a decade ago, many have come to believe that their pleas are destined to fall on deaf ears. W

The unconfirmed executors of a deceased company director have successfully petitioned the Court of Session to exercise its nobile officium to add them to the register of company members as to allow the company to take action to prevent insolvency. It was stipulated in the will of the late director,

Next steps to address violence against women and girls, including measures to combat culturally specific forms of violence, have been unveiled. The latest Equally Safe Delivery Plan – developed in partnership with COSLA – focuses on prevention of abuse across Scotland’s communities

There were 792 probable suicides in 2023, an increase of 30 on the previous year, new figures from National Records of Scotland show. Self-harm is also a risk factor for suicide and last year saw the launch in Scotland of an action plan focused on tackling the issue. This includes funding for a new

A man caught with a cache of homemade “zip” guns and ammunition in his house has been jailed for five years. The haul was discovered when police, acting on intelligence, carried out a search of Salvatore Lupi’s flat in Glasgow.

The Dundee Legal Walk 2024 will take place on Wednesday 2 October. Legal walks are held all over the UK and raise money for the Access to Justice Foundation to fund free legal advice in the form of grants to advice charities working in communities that need it most.