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Complaints about financial products have increased by 70 per cent year-on-year, reaching 74,645 cases in the first quarter of this fiscal year alone, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). This is up from 43,953 complaints reported in the same period in 2023/24.

The serial rapist convicted of murdering Emma Caldwell has lost an appeal against his sentence. Iain Packer was ordered to serve a minimum of 36 years' imprisonment following his conviction earlier this year on 33 charges against 22 women, including the 2005 murder of Ms Caldwell as well as 11 rapes

A Lord Ordinary has allowed a proof in an £800,000 personal injury action raised against a former ambulance technician and the Scottish Ambulance Service under chapter 43 of the Rules of the Court of Session based on alleged abuse committed by the technician against a patient. Pursuer NM raise

A brain surgeon is being prosecuted after allegedly allowing his teenage daughter to help drill a hole in a patient's skull. The Austrian doctor, who has not been named, allegedly invited his 13-year-old child to help treat a man who suffered serious head injuries in a forestry accident, Sky News re

English prisons are virtually full, according to new figures showing fewer than 100 places now left across the male prison estate. According to the BBC, there were a record 84,596 inmates in the male prison estate as of Friday 23 August.

Neilsons Solicitors and Estate Agents has formed a new partnership with The Spartans FC. The Spartans FC is one of Edinburgh’s most respected local football clubs, competing at a high level in Scottish League Two.

The US no longer has a "workable" constitution and its top court has become too politicised to act as "impartial constitutional arbiters", Lord Sumption has said. In an essay for Prospect magazine, the former justice of the UK Supreme Court mounts an unprecedented attack on its US counterpart, highl

House prices in Scotland's island regions have outpaced those in the rest of the country, with a 30 per cent increase to £182,000 since 2018, according to Registers of Scotland.

Many lawyers dream of writing a book in their retirement but well-known legal figure Ken Swinton has done just that and spoke to Graham Ogilvy about his new book, St Bernard’s Crescent: A History. Congratulations, Ken, on writing such a detailed and fascinating account. Can you outline the sco

Legal professionals are invited to take to the streets of Dundee in October for a sponsored walk in aid of charity Access to Justice. The first Legal Walk in the city occurred in 2022 when 30 legal professionals raised £700 for the cause.

A man posing as a taxi driver who raped a woman in his unlicensed vehicle has been jailed. Mohamad Sabbagh was found guilty on 1 August following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Labour Party for repeatedly failing to respond to hundreds of subject access requests (SARs). In November 2022, the Labour Party had received 352 SARs that required a response. Of that number, 78 per cent had not receive

The closing date for entries for the Faculty of Advocates’ Scottish Bar International Human Rights Award 2024 has been extended to the end of September.

A joint fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the deaths of three people who were all previously involved with services provided by Greater Glasgow Health Board. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to begin the court process for

An appeal by the Chief Constable of Police Scotland seeking her removal from an action by a scaffolding hire company for declarator and recovery of allegedly stolen goods from a company hired to store them has been allowed by the Sheriff Appeal Court. The Chief Constable was originally called as a t