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A lawmaker has been ridiculed for dropping his trousers and using racial slurs on comedian Sascha Baron Cohen's Who Is America? TV show, prompting him to tender his resignation. Jason Spencer, a Republican state representative, initially refused to quit his post after the show aired.

A recent widely reported settled claim by a hospitality worker highlighted the controversy that continues to persist with Zero Hour Contracts (ZHC).  Kenny Scott considers the issues that often surround this form of employment arrangement and highlights why ZHC’s still have an import

The latest statistics from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) for the first quarter of 2018-19 show total personal insolvencies, which include both bankruptcies and protected trust deeds (PTDs), rose by 11.8 per cent relative to the first quarter of 2017-18. Bankruptcy awards are down 6.5 per c

Scotland has a new Public Guardian and Accountant of Court with the appointment of Fiona Brown, who succeeds Sandra McDonald. Ms Brown has been Deputy Public Guardian and Accountant of Court (AoC) since 2015 having moved to the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) after a career in the court service

A defence lawyer has condemned the recent review into Scotland's legal aid system, suggesting its author lacks a “basic understanding of the realities of business”. Writing in The Journal, Ken Dalling, a member of the Law Society of Scotland Council, said Martyn Evans had made the m

The total raised for charity at the 2018 Tumbling Lassie Ball and Seminar has been confirmed as an incredible £27,300.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Irish High Court was justified in delaying the extradition to Poland of a man suspected of drug trafficking because of concerns about political interference with the Polish judiciary. The court found yesterday that domestic courts mu

More than 300 rape convictions will be reviewed for possible miscarriages of justice amid concerns that evidence casting doubt on prosecution cases has not been fully disclosed. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has announced it will look at 306 convictions made between April 2016 and

A man has complained that drunks keep attempting to have sex with his hedge. Topiarist Keith Tyssen, 84, has been carefully fashioning his privet hedge into the shape of a Greek goddess for more than three decades at his home in Sheffield.

Ledingham Chalmers' Linda Tinson and colleagues are tackling the Great Glen Challenge in aid of RSABI next month. Established as a one-day team challenge for rural businesses and organisations, teams of four people will compete against each other along designated stages between Fort Augustus and For

New Zealand has passed legislation giving domestic violence victims 10 days' paid leave to allow them to find a new home and leave their partners, The Guardian reports. The bill passed on Wednesday night by 63 votes to 57 and is the result of seven years of work by Jan Logie, a Green MP who pre