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Esme Macfarlane (left) and Joanne Ockrim

A dozen prisoners successfully tricked a security guard into letting them escape by smearing a food spread on doors in the prison. All but one are now back behind bars after a cunning plot which saw them smear peanut butter from prison sandwiches over door numbers.

Hefty fines are a small price to pay for data protection that will benefit business and consumers, writes Graham Millar. Businesses that do not deal in data are a rare and dying breed.

Nicola Irvine Tackling the poor legal aid rates is a priority for the new Dean of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow.

Twice as many barristers were disbarred last year compared to the previous year, the bar’s regulator has reported.In 2016-17, 19 barristers were sent packing, compared to seven in the year before, the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) annual report states. However, the number of suspensions declined f

Hamish Lean Hamish Lean details a case in which it was held that the Scottish ministers' rule formalism regarding a subsidy scheme was unjustified.

Far-right Facebook users have been left red-faced after mistaking a photo of empty bus seats for burka-clad women. The photo was posted to a 13,000-member Facebook group with the caption: "What do people think about this?"

Law Society of Scotland charity the Lawscot Foundation is to provide support for eight young people from less advantaged backgrounds who are starting Scots law degrees this autumn. The eight school pupils, who have all had offers to study law at university, are the first to be offered financial and

Robert Holland A ruling that people providing team foster care are classed as council employees is "a significant decision reflecting the valuable service that foster carers deliver", according to a Scots lawyer involved in the case.

Lord Cullen An oil industry resource aiming to pull together decades of knowledge in an attempt to avoid another Piper Alpha disaster has been welcomed by Lord Cullen, the judge who conducted the inquiry into the tragedy.

Martin Gill

Gillian Craig looks at the risk attaching to ownership in an imperfect registration system. It’s not often that the Daily Mail reports on boundary issues in Edinburgh but the plight of homeowners, some of whom are on limited incomes, being landed with a £600,000 bill (or £6,000 eac

Pictured: Not the couple in question A new bride allegedly pulled a gun from under her wedding dress to threaten her husband just hours after they were married.

Appellant bulk importers have had their interlocutory appeal in a criminal case unanimously dismissed by justices in the Supreme Court who have ruled grey market goods are caught by the criminal offence in s.92(1) Trade Marks Act 1994. This is an interlocutory appeal in a criminal case in which the