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A man has become the first person prosecuted in the UK for registering false company information after a stunt he organised to demonstrate the weakness of enforcement. Businessman Kevin Brewer registered two companies, in 2013 and 2016, with government ministers listed as directors and shareholders

Professor Stephen Tierney There is a "real risk" that the UK government will struggle to pass essential legislation on leaving the EU before a vote on the final Brexit deal – with almost half of the bills needed yet to be introduced to Parliament.

Michael Matheson A new initiative to tackle domestic abuse is to be expanded around the country, with £2.8 million being made available for local authorities to apply for in order to implement it.

The Scottish government has reiterated that its Continuity Bill is within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament as the UK government mounts a legal challenge against it at the Supreme Court. Brexit minister Michael Russell said Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC would be arguing in court

An EEA national who was set to be removed from the UK after being convicted of vandalism has successfully appealed against the deportation order. The Inner House of the Court of Session quashed the order after ruling that it was not open to the First-tier Tribunal to find that the appellant’s cond

Dozens of people are suing a fertility doctor who they say secretly used his own sperm to impregnate women attending his clinic. The serious allegations against Dr Norman Barwin are backed up by DNA tests which claimants say prove he is the biological father of at least 11 people whose parents went

Andy Knox Prime Minister Theresa May has apologised to Caribbean leaders over the Windrush fiasco which saw the Home Office threaten children of Commonwealth citizens with deportation.

TV personality Ant McPartlin has been given what is thought to be one of the largest drink driving fines in a British court. Mr McPartlin was handed a fine of £86,000 and a 20-month driving ban, after he pleaded guilty at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court.

Pictured (L-R): Bruce Farquhar, Alan Simpson and Neil Farrell

A father who was seeking to challenge a sheriff’s decision to make an adoption order in respect of his child with no post-adoption contact but then failed lodge the necessary appeal documents has had an application for permission to appeal to the Court of Session dismissed. A judge refused the app

The average price of a property in Scotland in February 2018 was £144,377 – an increase of 6.2 per cent on February in the previous year and a decrease of 2.7 per cent when compared to the previous month, according to Registers of Scotland’s latest monthly UK House Price Index. The figures comp

Eight cops have been sacked after they pointed the finger at mice in the search for a half-ton of marijuana missing from a police warehouse. An inspection of a police warehouse for impounded drugs in Pilar, Argentina, confirmed that 540kg of marijuana was missing - part of a 6,000kg haul that had be

Ten solicitors were struck off from the profession last year, the latest annual report from the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal shows. Of the 30 cases in 2017, there were 21 findings of professional misconduct.

Whistleblowing employees who report that their employers are cheating on industry standards tests or avoiding corporation tax would be conferred special legal status under a draft EU law. Next week, the European Commission will propose legislation meant to protect whistleblowers – proponents of wh