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Marcus Binney Heritage experts and lawyers have expressed their opposition to plans approved last month to add a lecture theatre to the Inner Temple Library.

Donald Cameron Advocate Donald Cameron has been put in charge of election policy for the Scottish Conservatives, The Herald reports.

Sixty per cent of judges in the UK do not feel respected by the media while the figure is 40 per cent in relation to government - the highest in Western Europe. The results come from a survey by the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ). The organisation also measured judiciaries aga

A handyman who spent three months is prison has been released after it was discovered the cocaine he was apparently in possession of was plaster. Karlos Cashe was pulled over by a police officer who said they noticed white powder in his car. The handyman said it was simply dry wall residue.

Pictured: Keeper of the Advocates Library, Mungo Bovey, QC (second left) with Lord Pentland (fourth from right) and his guests

Scotland has the chance to use a conference in Edinburgh to firmly establish the country as a seat of international arbitration, according to a leading world figure in alternative dispute resolution.

A paedophile convicted of two charges of rape who was given an Order for Lifelong Restriction has failed in an appeal against his sentence after appeal judges rejected his claim that the punishment imposed was “excessive and disproportionate”. The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary ref

Megan Briggs Megan Briggs comments on Morrisons' savvy reaction to a shopkeeper's pun in the wake of his David and Goliath encounter with a rival supermarket

Permission to appeal applications considered by the Supreme Court have fallen by 11 per cent over the past year according to the court’s annual report, laid before Parliament this week. The number of applications for permission to appeal considered by the justices decreased by 11 per cent to 192.

Michael Matheson Views are being sought on the best way to spare child witnesses from having to give evidence during criminal trials.

James Wolffe QC The police and courts will have greater powers to protect the public from perpetrators of human trafficking and exploitation from today.

In a bizarre mix-up, a man released from a short jail sentence found that someone else presumed to be him had been buried in his family plot. Slava Brushkov came home from prison only to find that his neighbours, noticing his sudden absence, had reported him missing.

The Lord President has claimed that a register of interests for the judiciary would deter lawyers from joining the bench and would help disgruntled litigants exact revenge after losing cases. Lord Carloway told MSPs on Holyrood’s Petitions Committee that the creation of a register would b

Sheona Burrow Cloch® has announced that solicitor Sheona Burrow has been promoted to associate within the firm, effective 1 July 2017. Ms Burrow, an academic lawyer and winner of the 2013 Cloch Prize for Intellectual Property in the Digital Economy at the University of Glasgow, started with the bou