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Alan Sheeley Pinsent Masons has warned that police budgets risk being swallowed up by law firms unless work given to them to seize fraudsters' assets is done either on a “no win no fee” basis or according to competitive tendering.

A man who claimed he didn’t receive a big enough discount on his sentence after being jailed for admitting an assault to severe injury charge has had an appeal dismissed. The Criminal Appeal Court refused the appeal by Ernest Findlay, who was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment after being give

Philip Rodney

Sean Maher

Macdonald Henderson has ranked as one of the top three corporate law firms in Scotland in terms of number of MBOs (management buyouts) completed in 2015/16. The results of the deal table, which is published by Scottish Business Insider in its 2016 Yearbook, caps a busy year in which the firm complet

Michael Kelly Michael Kelly, a partner at MacRoberts LLP, is the subject of this week's SLN Spotlight.

The Judicial Institute for Scotland has released its annual report for the year to 31 March 2016. The Annual Report 2015/16 looks at, among other things, educational strategy, and technology enhanced learning.

Kenny Crawford The latest publication of the UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in June 2016 was £143,282 an increase of 4.6 per cent on the previous year and an increase of 2.7 per cent when compared to the previous month.

Thieves who nicked a box of chemicals from the back of a pick-up truck will be disappointed once they open what they probably thought were drug-making materials, the New Zealand Herald reports. The stolen materials, far from being fit to produce illegal drugs, are actually oils made from the anal gl

A man found guilty of stalking who claimed that the sheriff “misdirected” the jury by failing to advise them of the need for his conduct to have caused “actual fear or alarm” has failed in an appeal against conviction, after the Criminal Appeal Court ruled that the misdirection was not a “

Aileen Campbell New statistics released today show that in 2015 there were more drug-related deaths recorded than ever before, at 93, 15 per cent higher than in 2014 and more than double the figure for 2005 (336).

Following our report of a case in which a sheriff jailed a woman for 14 days because she refused to swear under oath that her husband had abused her, we have received a response from a solicitor in private practice who wishes to remain anonymous. The views expressed here are those of the solicitor a

Coral Riddell and Alistair Dean

George Frier Shepherd and Wedderburn acted in three recent acquisitions for Satellite Solutions Worldwide Group (SSW), an AIM listed Oxfordshire-based global communications company specialising in the provision of high-speed satellite and last-mile broadband solutions to remote locations.

Chris Keates A trio of teachers have launched a legal case to block their transfers to different schools, on the basis of their contracts' mobility clauses, in a case that could make it more difficult for councils to move underperforming teachers in the future, The Herald reports.