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Police have been giving the public strange advice on car thefts. Officers in Toronto, Canada, told vehicle owners at a community meeting last month that they should make it easier for thieves to access their keys by leaving them near the front door.

Holyrood’s Rural Affairs & Islands Committee has today said it agrees with the general principles of the Agriculture & Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill. The legislation represents the Scottish government’s ‘vision for agriculture’ to transform farming and food produc

A replacement plaque was installed this morning at the base of the Melville Monument in St Andrew Square in Edinburgh.

Domestic killers in England and Wales face tougher sentences one year on from the publication of Clare Wade KC’s review. Ms Wade’s review looked at domestic homicide sentencing, and provided key recommendations for the UK government to protect women. The review found that:

The rule of law is in decline across the EU, according to a civil liberties network. Berlin-based Civil Liberties Union for Europe's annual report found that challenges to the rule of law were sporadic in old democracies with mainstream parties in power, including Germany and France, but that deteri

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has announced the appointment of Lisa Gillespie KC as deputy principal crown counsel. Ms Gillespie was admitted to the bar in 2005 and has been a full-time advocate depute since February 2014. She took silk in 2020. Ms Gillespie will support principal crown counsel Ashl

A man convicted of assaulting members of his extended family between 1999 and 2001 has lost a High Court appeal against one of the charges after failing to establish that the jury had been misdirected on corroboration. Appellant JH argued that the trial judge had misdirected the jury in relation to

David James and Iain Halliday of Themis Advocates have been appointed to the panel of standing junior counsel to the Scottish government joining members, Julie McKinlay and Tim Haddow.

Compass Chambers' Dominic Scullion has been appointed as second standing junior to the Scottish government. Craig Murray and Elaine Smith have also been appointed as standing junior counsel.

Former Scots lawyer, John Watt, who was sentenced in 2023 to a period of 10 years in prison for historical child sex abuse crimes, has been stripped of his title of King's Counsel. In line with the protocol for removal of the title, a panel comprising the lord justice general, the lord justice clerk

Police responding to a report of dangerous driving found a 103-year-old woman with an expired driving license at the wheel of an uninsured car. Giuseppina Molinari, born in 1920, was fined and taken home by police in Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region after being pulled over in the early hours o

Govan Law Centre has given evidence to MSPs on education in Scotland for children with additional support needs. Chloe Minto, senior solicitor in GLC's education law unit, appeared before the Scottish Parliament's Education, Children and Young People Committee, which is considering how the Education

Macleod & MacCallum solicitor Elizabeth Wilson has been accredited as a trust and estate practitioner by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). STEP is a global organisation whose main aim is to help families plan for their future, with its membership including solicitors, trustee

Graham Ogilvy reviews a "true story of love, crime and a dangerous obsession". Stendhal syndrome is unlikely to feature in a plea of mitigation in a sheriff court near you – and citing it did nothing to secure the liberty of Stéphane Breitwieser, the working-class Frenchman who systemat