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Angela Grahame QC More than 50 advocates are preparing to help nurses and midwives who may be facing the trauma of disciplinary proceedings with no-one at their side.

Caryn Penley CMS’s Glasgow operation has completed its move to 1 West Regent Street, a newly completed Grade A property located in the city centre.

Karen Bradley The UK government has backed down over the implementation of legislation that would see unregulated newspapers pay libel costs in cases that they successfully defended.

David Strang Scotland's chief prisons inspector has called for greater use of alternatives to short sentences as well as more help for prisoners reintegrating into society upon their release as Scotland's prison population falls to its lowest in seven years.

The average price of a residential property in Scotland has shown an increase of 0.6 per cent during the second quarter of financial year 2016/17 compared with the same period in the previous year, with the highest rise, of 9.7 per cent, being reported in East Renfrewshire, according to figures from

Michael Matheson The levels of domestic abuse reported to Police Scotland have dropped by three per cent over the past year.

A 40-year-old Frenchman has announced he will go to court to win the right to smile in his passport photo. Named only as "Thierry" in the French media, the man has launched a legal bid after his passport photo was rejected by French authorities.

John Forsyth John Forsyth discusses the status of evidential child welfare hearings in the wake of LA v JJL.

Cyber security is one of the biggest issues facing solicitors according to new research commissioned by the Law Society of Scotland. Almost half of survey respondents, at 42 per cent, believed that maintaining cyber security was a challenge.

Intel’s appeal against the imposition of a €1.06 billion fine for abuse of its dominant position should be upheld and the case should be referred back to the General Court for a fresh review in the Opinion of an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union. By decision of 13 Ma

Routine difficulty in meeting statutory time limits in Scotland’s criminal justice system requires urgent attention, the Faculty of Advocates has told MSPs. Other “difficulties” facing the prosecution service were also highlighted by the Faculty in a submission to the Scottish Parliament’s J

Sian Aitken Sian Aitken and Graeme MacLeod look at a case confirming the precedence of domestic administration proceedings in a multi-jurisdictional winding-up, marking the first time “modified universalism” has been recognised in Scots law.

Clare Foster UK Green Investment plc (GIB) has agreed to part-fund the biggest non-Private Finance Initiative (PFI) streetlighting project in the UK to date.

Orlaith Brogan The latest quarterly report released by Registers of Scotland (RoS) has revealed that there has been a 1.1 per cent decrease in the number of property sales across Scotland.

A city in China has been forced to scrap a scheme that allows members of the public to exchange cigarette butts for tissues, due to abuse. Authorities in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, set up the exchange scheme in a bid to encourage people to pick up cigarette butts, offering a pack of tissues for e