Search:

Government Brexit plans demonstrate a lack of ambition for equality and human rights standards, one human rights chief has warned.Publishing a "5 point plan" on how Britain’s status as a "world leader on equality and human rights" can be maintained and strengthened after we leave the European Unio

Fergus Ewing Crofters have elected six new commissioners to serve on the Crofting Commission Board where they will support the crofting system for current and future generations.

A new bill to strengthen the laws against those who psychologically abuse their partners using coercive and controlling behaviour has been published today. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met survivors of abuse at Glasgow Young Women’s Movement (YWCA) centre on the day the Scottish government intro

The SYLA committee

For the academic year 2017–18, the Stair Society will offer one or more one-year bursaries of £1,000 to postgraduate students who are enrolled in a Masters or PhD programme and who are preparing a thesis in Scottish legal history, broadly construed. At the time of application eligible postgraduat

Groundwork is due to begin today on Scotland’s first purpose-built justice centre in Inverness, the Press and Journal reports.The news comes after confirmation of a demolition warrant for a derelict bus garage on the site at the Longman industrial estate following approval by Highland Council.

A sheriff’s decision to discharge a man who was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant after ruling that the crime narrated was not an offence in Scots law has been overturned following an appeal. Miroslaw Lisek was convicted of stealing sewing machines after failing to return the items, which had

Credit: New Zealand Police  

Any change to legislation on organ donation and transplants would have to be supported by a major public education campaign to boost donor numbers according to the Law Society of Scotland. In its response to the Scottish government consultation on increasing organ and tissue donation and transplanta

A former priest has been ordered to pay his brother-in-law more than £140,000 in damages from his late father’s estate following a family dispute over the lease of a fish and chip shop. John Gray was awarded damages for loss of profits in his action against Father Roderick MacNeil, after the Sher

A judicial review claiming ministers acted unlawfully in sacking the board of a college has been dismissed by a judge in the Court of Session. Lord Clark said board members failed to understand their collective responsibility. As a result, then-Education Secretary, Angela Constance's decision to dis

Janette Speed Shoosmiths has advised Kingdom Housing Association Limited on the purchase of a development site from Fife Council that will be used to supply much needed affordable homes to the area.

Kenny Crawford The latest publication of the monthly UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in January 2017 was £142,233 – an increase of four per cent on January in the previous year and an increase of 2.1 per cent when compared to the previous month

Lord Wilson Plans in the House of Lords to make ex-wives “stand on their own two feet” by prohibiting the transfer of any non-matrimonial property upon divorce have been criticised by a Supreme Court justice who said “well-meaning” peers too readily believe what they “read in the papers”

Pupils from schools in Dundee, Glasgow and St Andrews have earned their places in the final of the Donald Dewar Memorial Debating Tournament, having pitted their wits against schools across the country.Just four of the original 128 teams that entered the Law Society’s national debating tournament,