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Gillian Carty Shepherd and Wedderburn celebrates the anniversary of its legal advice clinics this week, which have been held at Musselburgh and Haddington Citizens Advice Bureaus (CAB) for the past five years.

A man who claimed he was unaware that a document he signed included an indemnity has successfully challenged a sheriff’s decision to dismiss his case. The Sheriff Appeal Court allowed a proof before answer after ruling that the sheriff’s judgment was “completely inadequate” in that it failed

A group of fruit smugglers is suspected to have moonlighted as civil engineers after a poorly-kept country road on the Russian border was mysteriously improved. Border agencies were left scratching their heads after expensive equipment was covertly used overnight to "widen and raise the gravel track

John Swinney

An 18-year-old motorist who was caught driving without insurance will not have his licence revoked after a sheriff found that there were “special reasons” for not endorsing it with penalty points. Sheriff Philip Mann ruled that Kyle Siegel was entitled to assume that his mother had arranged for

A judge in the Court of Session has said Theresa May “acted unreasonably” when as Home Secretary she rejected a Tamil Tiger’s asylum application after he said he risked death if returned. Lord Boyd of Duncansby said that Ms May wrongly rejected the man’s bid to stay in Scotland.

Caroline Maguire Caroline Maguire , employment legal adviser at Law Centre (NI), writes for our sister publication Irish Legal News on access to justice for victims of labour exploitation in the wake of an important UKSC decision.

Pictured (L-R): Andrew McGettrick, Rob Gregory and Alistair Hindle.

The HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) has taken a tenancy in an Aberdeen office complex. The body, responsible for the administration of the courts south of the border, has taken a long lease for ground-floor accommodation at the AB1 building on Huntly Street.

Fraser Morrison Macdonald Henderson has advised Clark Communications in the acquisition of Golley Slater Scotland Limited.

Traffic police in central India have embraced an unlikely solution to night-time traffic accidents involving straw cattle: attaching glow-in-the-dark strips to their horns. Kailash Chauhan, traffic police inspector for Balaghat district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, said action was taken after a s

in bribery, he was a “bad leaver” in terms of the Glasgow-based logistics company’s article of association and was entitled on disposal of his shares to be paid only whichever was the lesser of their fair value or their subscription or par value. Mr Gray was found to have been aware of an arr

Ninety retailers across Scotland are among hundreds across the UK which have either been closed or are no longer selling potentially dangerous psychoactive substances, according to new figures released today. The statistics were announced as the UK government minister for safeguarding, vulnerability

Alasdair Irvine

Kavita Chetty The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has added its voice to the opposition to the proposed "British Bill of Rights".