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Its original forecast of 3.5 per cent average house growth in Scotland for 2026 is under threat due to geopolitical events and related inflationary pressure and interest rates, Rettie has said. While the recent US-Iran peace deal provides some hope that inflation and interest rate rises will be limi

During his long summer holidays in 1934, staying with a school friend’s family in Ireland, historian and author Richard Cobb remarked on what, to him, seemed like a peculiar practice: tram passengers discreetly crossing themselves every time the tram passed a church or roadside shrine, which a

We’re pushing the boat out today. Kurt the Kiwi, an esteemed former colleague and now a senior man at the New Zealand Herald, is paying a flying visit. It’s 15 years since he left Scotland for home and the occasion calls for a special lunch at Edinburgh’s L’Escargot Bleu. We&

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Turkey intensifies crackdown on public life in run-up to Nato summit in Ankara

Criticism of a football referee’s impartiality can fall within the protection of freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In de Carvalho Marques and Others v Portugal, the court considered six applications

Kirsten Oswald, minister for victims and community safety, visited the University of Strathclyde Mediation Clinic to learn how mediation is helping people and businesses resolve disputes without the time and expense of court proceedings.

Courts will be given tougher powers to impose football banning orders (FBOs) in Scotland to include specific offences in an effort to improve the matchday experience and safety at games. It comes as the analysis of a consultation on FBO legislation has published.

A Dunfermline local is celebrating a career milestone this week, having successfully completed her legal traineeship with Watermans. Robyn Lynch, who obtained her law degree and diploma from the University of Stirling and Robert Gordon University respectfully, celebrated with her team in Dunfermline

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by two Nairn landowners against a sheriff’s decision to grant interdict in respect of future interference with their neighbours’ servitude right of access, while likewise declaring a note of acquisitive prescription on the parties’ tit

The last woman to be executed in the UK has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon following a campaign by her family. Ruth Ellis, who was 28 when she was hanged in 1955 for murdering her partner, David Blakely, has had her death sentence replaced on the official record with life imprisonment.

Addleshaw Goddard and Simmons & Simmons have reported double-digit revenue growth, pushing average pay for their full equity partners above the £1 million mark. Addleshaw Goddard, the UK’s eleventh highest-grossing law firm, increased annual revenue by 17 per cent to £644m. Pro

Lord Lake has delivered the opinion of the Court of Session in Ferit Samuray v Maxim Asanov [2026] CSOH 64.