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Brodies LLP has been appointed as a strategic partner to provide legal services to one of the UK's largest social housing providers, Sanctuary. Following a competitive tender process, Brodies was appointed to Lots 7 and 8 of Sanctuary's legal panel to provide advice across the full spectrum of its a

The future of Elvis Presley's famous Graceland mansion is in doubt after his granddaughter launched legal proceedings to prevent it from being auctioned. Riley Keough – herself a well-known actress – is suing Naussany Investments, which claims that the mansion was used as collateral on a

The average price of a property in Scotland in March 2024 was £192,000, an increase of 6.7 per cent when compared to the same period last year, the UK House Price Index (HPI) has revealed. Compared to the previous month, house prices in Scotland increased by 2.3 per cent on a non-seasonally ad

Ireland will join Spain and Norway in recognising the State of Palestine next week, the government has announced. Ministers say the move follows months of consultation with like-minded countries across Europe and the Middle East and is intended to contribute towards achieving a two-state solution to

A Caithness solicitor who was accused of embezzling over £100,000 from his firm between July 2008 and January 2012 will no longer face trial. Patrick Copinger allegedly embezzled £105,129 from his Highland Law Practice firm in Lybster and was to face trial this week, more than five years

Jen Ang is a firm believer that equality should be at the heart of the law and that, equally, the law should uphold those equalities. That isn’t always the case, though – which is why Ang co-founded social justice legal organisation Just Right Scotland in 2017. Just Right has proved more

Greenhouse gases are destroying the maritime environment and states are legally obliged to control them, according to the opinion of an international court. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) also said that wealthy countries must reduce their emissions faster than developing o

A judge has determined that a petition for judicial review of plans to redesign an Inverness shopping street to reduce the amount of vehicle traffic passing through it was not raised incompetently or prematurely. The trustees of the Eastgate Unit Trust, which owned a shopping centre at the east end

Fourteen Scottish drugs support projects have been awarded funding. Ten projects will receive continuation funding of £2.6 million, with four new residential rehabilitation initiatives receiving £1m.

A paedophile who raped a young girl and sexually assaulted another during a seven-year campaign of abuse has been jailed for seven years. Malcolm Lamont was found guilty of six charges following a trial at the High Court in Livingston on March 25.

Sheriff Jack Brown is to be removed from office. First Minister John Swinney laid an order before the Scottish Parliament that will mean Sheriff Brown, who sits in the Sheriffdom of Grampian, Highland and Islands, is removed from office on 7 June 2024.

Michelle Macleod has been re-appointed as the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC), the independent police scrutiny body. Her reappointment will commence on 17 August. The PIRC conducts independent investigations into serious incidents involving the police and independent scrutiny of

The number of commercial property rent disputes between landlords and occupiers rose for the first time since 2016 as more cases had to be referred a third-party for resolution, according to new analysis from Knight Frank. The commercial property consultancy obtained figures from the Royal Instituti

A law student has spoken of developing an addiction to cheese so debilitating that she had no choice but to spend around $12,000 on a two-week stint in rehab. Adela Cojab told the New York Post that she would "literally just eat a block of cheese with my hands" almost every day, because it was "the

Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman acted unlawfully when she used so-called 'Henry VIII powers' to restrict protest rights, the High Court in London has ruled. Secondary legislation which significant lowered the threshold on protest crackdowns to anything that caused "more than minor" disrupt