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People affected by drug use across Scotland will continue to receive support thanks to funding for 28 projects delivering frontline services. This is the final funding from the Scottish government's five-year National Drug Mission Funds, administered by the Corra Foundation. It aims to provide grass

An appeal by a party to a share purchase agreement who stopped making payments under the agreement after forming a view that he had been fraudulently induced into entering the SPA against a sheriff’s decision that he had pled no relevant defence to an action for payment has been refused by the

There is to be a statutory public inquiry examining Scotland’s response to group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) chaired by Professor Alexis Jay. In a statement to Holyrood, Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth confirmed the Scottish government’s intention to establish a ta

Burness Paull has appointed Tim Dale to the new role of knowledge and client service partner. Mr Dale – who brings a decade’s experience of leading and growing a knowledge function in an international law firm – will be responsible for elevating all aspects of Burness Paull’s

Ministers promised action on spiralling premiums. The result has been silence – and higher bills, writes Thomas Mitchell. The average cost of comprehensive car insurance in the UK is now £726 according to Confused.com, the well-known price comparison website. Post pandemic, we saw prices

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million for children's privacy failures. It said the online platform had failed to apply a robust age assurance mechanism to prevent under-13s from creating accounts.

Ukrainian refugees abroad have been invited to submit compensation claims to a Council of Europe initiative aimed at holding Russia accountable for the costs of its invasion for the past four years. The Register of Damage for Ukraine yesterday opened a new category of claims, A1.2, which covers "inv

The Scottish government "must reverse" worrying trends in key categories of crime including sexual crimes, indecent images of children and shoplifting, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. Figures from Police Scotland show that in the year ending December 2025:

Artificial intelligence will be embedded across the court system as part of a sweeping programme of reform aimed at delivering “faster and fairer justice for victims”, Justice Secretary David Lammy has said. Speaking at the Microsoft AI Tour at the Excel Centre in London, Mr Lammy set ou

Amnesty International has warned that proposals to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, expand mass deportations and weaken legal safeguards risk undermining democratic accountability and fuelling division, following a speech by Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson outlining plans t

New York police say they are investigating "criminals" who pelted officers with snowballs after they turned up to a mass snowball fight. Videos circulating on social media show a rain of snowballs coming down on officers attending the event, which was organised online in the wake of a major blizzard

The Sheriff Appeal Court has quashed an order for the destruction of an XL Bully dog after finding that there was insufficient information to establish that the dog presented a risk to the public or that his owner, who received the dog from her son in unknown circumstances, was not a fit and proper

Anyone who followed the 2026 Winter Olympics will probably have noted the cheating controversy in curling in the men’s game: Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson accused Canada’s Mark Kennedy of deliberately double-touching his stones, writes Benjamin Bestgen. For those unfamiliar, curling is a

What if the biggest threat to your firm’s profitability isn’t competition, but complacency? Across the legal sector in Scotland, many firms are still relying on legacy systems and manual processes simply because “that’s how it’s always been done.” But behind famil