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The Supreme Court has found that the insurers of a van driver who negligently collided with a woman in a car she had hired while her own car was in for repairs were required to pay her the amount that she had to pay the hire car company to compensate them for the time the vehicle was not in use. The

TLT has supported renewable energy infrastructure firm Field on its acquisition of 200MWh Scottish Holmston and Drum Farm battery energy storage sites from RES. RES is the world’s largest independent renewable energy company with 40 years of experience delivering global renewable energy soluti

Police Scotland is investigating potential fraud at a failed law firm. McClure Solicitors, which was founded in Greenock in 1853, went into administration about three years ago. The work of the firm, which also operated in the north of England, was taken on by Jones Whyte.

A commercial judge has held that a structural engineer hired for an Edinburgh building project could not be compelled to execute and deliver a collateral warranty in favour of the landowner over five years after the conclusion of a contract between the engineer and the project’s contractor in

The average price of a property in Scotland in December 2023 reached £190,000, a 3.3 per cent year-on-year increase, according to the latest figures from the UK HPI.

Police have arrested a Methodist pastor who allegedly sold crystal meth from his church's rectory. Herbert Miller, the pastor of Woodbury United Methodist Church in Connecticut, was arrested in a sting operation following a tip-off, according to local paper the Republican-American.

Professor Kenneth Norrie responds to a piece published earlier this week in Scottish Legal News, which he characterises as "mendacious". Monday’s Scottish Legal News carried a piece with the shockingly misleading heading “Plans for new trans law…”.

Moray Council’s chief executive Roddy Burns is to step down from his role later this year. The local authority’s top official told the council leader of his intention to retire at a date to be confirmed in 2024, after 42 years of public service, 12 of those as chief executive.

The University of Aberdeen Law School has paid tribute to its former vice principal and head of faculty, the late Professor Philip Love CBE. Professor Love became a solicitor in 1963 before joining the university as professor of conveyancing and professional practice of law, during which time he ear

In advance of Julian Assange’s next hearing ahead of his possible extradition to the US, Amnesty International has reiterated concerns that Mr Assange faces the risk of serious human rights violations if extradited and warns of a profound ‘chilling effect’ on global media freedom.

The Edinburgh Law School's Centre for Legal History will host a talk with Xavier Prévost, Professor of Legal History at the University of Bordeaux, on 10 May. Professor Prévost is an associate of the faculties of law, associate of economics and management, paleographic archivist (gradu

A judgment of the European Court of Human Rights this month found that the Slovak justice system had taken too long to enforce an order for contact between a mother and her son and had breached their rights in terms of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The mother who brought the

Nearly two-thirds of specially-trained rape barristers in England and Wales say they will quit because of poor pay, according to a landmark new survey. A survey by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) found that 64 per cent of prosecutors and 66 per cent of defence counsel on the rape and serious sexu