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SKO in Edinburgh are joining with the founder of the Centre for Individual and Family Identity (CIFI) to hold a seminar early next year highlighting the needs that arise when people are thinking of, or creating families through Donor Conception and/or Surrogacy. Families created this way face the sa

A writer of Lord of the Rings fan fiction has failed in a copyright case over the publication of his own sequel to the series. Demetrious Polychron published The Fellowship of the King in September last year. He described it as a “pitch perfect” follow-up to the original trilogy.

Christmas has come early for 66 new Scottish solicitors, as they were formally welcomed to the profession at an admissions ceremony in Edinburgh.

A Fife man who shared extremist hate material from a banned right-wing terror group online has been fined a total of £840. Colin Webster, 62, of Kelty, was found guilty of an offence under terrorism legislation following a trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by the purported owner of a disputed piece of scrubland on the Ardnamuchan peninsula against a sheriff’s determination that the owners of adjoining land had in fact acquired it in 1992 when they purchased a farm there.

ESPC has called for greater help for first-time buyers in Scotland in order to improve access to the market for people who’ve been hit by years of high house price inflation and now high interest rates. The property portal for home buyers and sellers in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Bo

An expert report by a KC on 22 cases prosecuted by the Post Office has been published. Duncan Atkinson KC’s report, Volumes 2 and 2A, have been released by the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. They contain a detailed analysis of 22 cases investigated and prosecuted by the Post Office between 20

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay $148 million in damages to two election workers he defamed in relation to his baseless claims of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Among his public claims about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were that t

A bank robbery went unexpectedly awry when the alleged robbers' getaway vehicle was stolen in the middle of their heist. Three "armed and masked individuals" robbed a cheque-cashing shop in Commerce City, Colorado late on Saturday morning, local police said.

I try to avoid criticism of political figures on social media – but like most people I can be provoked beyond endurance. Last week First Minister Humza Yousaf attended an event at the University of Strathclyde at which the consultation on a Scottish Human Rights Bill was discussed. I am very h

Our sister publication Scottish Construction Now has marked its 20th anniversary with impressive growth in readers and subscribers.

Climate groups are launching two legal cases in the Court of Session to block a decision by UK ministers to grant permission to drain fossil fuels from the Rosebank oilfield. Uplift and Greenpeace UK are attempting to overturn the UK government's decision to permit the development of the oilfield &n

Allowing asylum seekers the right to work could help them settle into communities better while boosting Scotland’s economy and workforce, according to the Scottish government. Research by the government’s independent Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population sets out how enabling

A cardinal who was in charge of Vatican funds between 2011 and 2018 has been convicted of embezzlement – becoming the first cardinal to stand trial in the Holy See's criminal court. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once a former contender for the papacy, was sentenced to five-and-a-half years