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Lord Neuberger The UK’s highest court should sit in Edinburgh as well as Cardiff and Belfast, the President of the Supreme Court has said as he announced his retirement.

Migrants in EU member states face arson attacks, violence, murder and everyday harassment, according to the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights(FRA). The agency's latest monthly report on hate crime examines migration-related fundamental rights in Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, G

Theresa May Prime Minister Theresa May may have to water down her promise to absorb all EU law into domestic legislation ahead of Brexit following reports the process was becoming a “legal nightmare”.

A man who nicked a company president's wallet during a job interview was tracked down using the address given on his CV. Shogo Takeda, 24, admitted stealing a wallet from the president of an elevator maintenance company in Japan earlier this month.

Plans submitted for a new justice centre in Inverness are the latest move in a programme of court closures and changes to the delivery of legal services in Scotland’s justice system. There are currently 43 courts operating in Scotland, 39 sheriff and justice of the peace courts, the Court of Sessi

Audrey Dishington Pagan Osborne hosted its first "Women Who Mean Business" event for almost 40 young professionals at its Edinburgh office.

The Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee has recommended overturning a ban on tagging offenders who have breached their community sentences. Now prisoners could serve the final quarter of their sentence under a new system of home detention curfew following the committee's approval of the Home D

Neil Stevenson There has been a “significant increase” in the number of complaints about lawyers made to the profession’s complaints body, particularly in relation to conveyancing and will writing, with the number of complaints having risen to 1,132 – up from last year's figure of 1,009.

Prosecutors successfully challenged a trial judge’s decision to desert a trial against three men accused of breaking into banks and blowing open cash machines. The trial judge had become “increasingly frustrated” at the Crown’s handling of the case and refused a motion to adjourn the trial w

Police Scotland has claimed that four out of every five domestic abuse charges have led to a conviction, amid reports that convictions are being pursued to meet targets. Assistant chief constable Bernie Higgins told Holyrood’s Justice Committee that of the 34,000 charges brought in the past year,

Will Hutson and Chris Harris sing "Please Don't Eat Your Weed" (via YouTube)

A federal judge presiding at a citizenship swearing-in ceremony told US citizens that Donald Trump is "your president, and if you don't like that, you need to go to another country." Judge John Primono in San Antonio told KENS-TV his statement was not political and that he did not vote for President

Alan Diamond Pinsent Masons has advised on the sale of Skyscanner in what is believed to be the largest corporate transaction in Scotland this year.

Douglas Ross Tory leader Ruth Davidson has received calls to sack the party’s justice spokesman after he put his second job as a referee ahead of his responsibilities at Holyrood.

A husband who claimed his wife had “willingly engaged” in sexual activity with another man after he was accused of “coercing” her to do it has had an application to question her about two alleged extra-marital affairs rejected. The accused had intended to attack the complainer’s credibilit