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A 15-year-old girl has admitted carrying out a knife attack on a 12-year-old pupil at an Aberdeen school. The teenager, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to assault to the danger of life following the incident at Hazlehead Academy on 24 April last year. She was 14 at

A man who described himself as the ruler of a self-proclaimed African “kingdom” and spent months living in woodland in the Borders has been deported to Ghana. Kofi Offeh, who styled himself as King Atehene of the so-called Kingdom of Kubala, was arrested after immigration enforcement off

Bad debt and late payment are hammering Scottish SMEs' cashflow and profitability, according to new data from Bibby Financial Services (BFS). BFS’s latest SME Confidence Tracker revealed that 39 per cent of Scottish SMEs, equating to around 139,000 businesses, experienced bad debt in the past

UK taxpayers have handed over £938.8 billion in tax in 2024/25, a 9.3 per cent rise on the previous year, according to HMRC's annual bulletin, as frozen thresholds and rising asset values are quietly eroding household wealth.

Lord Advocate v North British Railway Co (1894) 2 SLT 71 The soundly educational 21st-Century Bar Conference last December 5th heard Lord President Pentland forecast that “litigation about environmental issues will become a greater feature of our forum”.

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. A War That Targets Women: Sudan’s Silent Crisis

The Sheriff Appeal Court has held that there is no competence for an appeal against a sheriff’s refusal to sign a warrant for an initial writ after a man attempted to challenge the refusal of his case against his neighbour, after finding that the refusal could not constitute a final judgment i

The Care Home Swindler, the reader is told, purports to be, and is, the "gripping inside story" of a care home owner who took vast sums of money from his residents, with "an expose of the terrifying reality of what happens to the elderly behind closed doors". The care home owner, the reader is advis

To the ‘silver city of the North’, as it was once styled, and home to Scotland’s other Faculty of Advocates. Aberdeen is in the economic doldrums following the downturn in the North Sea, the current government’s reluctance to ‘drill baby drill’ and the failure of

A defamation lawsuit filed by FBI director Kash Patel sharply criticising The Atlantic’s journalistic standards contains numerous spelling and copy-editing errors. The 19-page complaint, lodged in federal court in Washington, D.C., accuses the publication and a reporter of knowingly publishing

Macdonald Henderson has advised Paper Shredding Services (PSS), a Glasgow-based provider of secure, compliant collection and destruction services on its disposal to Restore Datashred, the UK data management and recycling services group. PSS serves clients throughout Scotland across public and privat

The number of personal injury claims made following road traffic collisions is in sharp decline, writes Thomas Mitchell. Data from the government’s Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) revealed that only 63,833 claims were registered with the CRU in the fourth quarter of 2025. This is down 24 per

A local government trainee and an early career solicitor working in finance have been crowned the Law Society of Scotland’s 2026 In-house Rising Stars. Selected from a strong field of 13 nominees, this year’s winners of the annual competition for early career in-house talent are:

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Robert Garvock. Mr Garvock, a 68-year-old senior recovery operator from Longside, Aberdeenshire, was recovering a stolen van which was on its side down an embankment on the B999