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The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is to work with The Postal Museum on its upcoming Legacy Project. Created alongside those affected, the Legacy Project will mark the Horizon scandal in history and "ensure its effects cannot be forgotten".

More people impacted by drugs have received support after the Scottish government funded 225 community-based projects across the country. The National Drugs Mission Funds distributed almost £13 million in grants in 2024-25 through the Corra Foundation. In 2024-25, there were more than 51,000 i

Thorntons has welcomed 19 new trainee solicitors.

Justice Secretary Angela Constance has said the 'not proven' verdict, which is to be abolished, is "widely misunderstood". Thomas Ross KC demonstrates that indeed it is, especially by her.  Haggis, square sausage and the 'not proven' verdict – cultural appropriation being what it is &ndas

Freeths has announced record financial results for the year ending 31 March 2025, reporting another year of impressive double-digit growth. Turnover rose by 14.8 per cent to £166.8 million, an increase of £21.5m compared to the previous year and overall profit climbed to £59.4m, an

A worker employed by a charity who stole thousands of pounds from vulnerable and disabled care home residents has been sentenced.  Margaret Burnett, 69, stole the money from five residents at a Leonard Cheshire home in Edinburgh between January 2014 and August 2016. 

The Law Society of Scotland has warned of significant risks for criminal justice after MSPs voted to approve untested changes to Scotland’s criminal court system. The final vote on the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill concluded this afternoon, with 71 MSPs backing the leg

A sheriff has reversed a child contact order made in June 2024 at the request of the child’s mother after an incident at her house in which the father punched the door of her house while trying to force his way inside, having determined that the relationship between the parties was too degrade

More than 6,000 sex offenders in the north of England will be offered chemical castration drugs to suppress their libidos under plans to expand an existing prison trial. Justice secretary David Lammy said a pilot already running in four prisons in the southwest would be extended to 20 prisons across

A parliamentary inquiry has strongly backed the Law Society of Scotland’s calls for the Scottish government to urgently increase civil legal aid fees and pursue reforms to restore access to justice. The Report on the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee inquiry into Civil Legal

Participants on this year's Glasgow Legal Walk will be treated to an address by Sheriff Principal Aisha Anwar on the steps of Glasgow Sheriff Court prior to setting off on their tour through the city.

A group of virtual celebrities has won a libel case brought against an internet user who insulted their digital avatars. South Korea has seen a boom in the popularity of so-called "virtual idols", whose real identities and appearances are unknown as they interact with the public purely through a dig

The Sheriff Appeal Court has resolved a dispute between the proprietors of two adjoining plots of land in Arbroath over the existence of a servitude of drainage over one of the properties by ruling that there was a servitude over the original drainage route by positive prescription that was not aban