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The Sheriff Appeal Court, which normally sits in Edinburgh, will move to Glasgow for two days on Tuesday, 14 and Wednesday, 15 August. The court will hear criminal appeals, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary at the Saltmarket.

The murder in Belgrade of the lawyer who represented Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague has led to a strike by criminal defence practitioners in Serbia. Dragoslav Ognjanovic, 57, was shot dead near his home in the city on Saturday, while his son was wounded.

Legal permission will not be required to end care for patients who are in a long-term vegetative state, the Supreme Court has ruled. The question in this appeal is whether a court order must always be obtained before clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (“CANH”), which is keeping

The UK's secondary market in renewable energy projects has seen the energy & natural resources team at Harper Macleod complete a series deals worth in excess of £300 million in an unprecedented six-month spell. Led by senior partner David Bone, the firm acted for The Renewables Infras

The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) has launched a consultation inviting stakeholders to give their views on proposed changes to the Criminal Quality Assurance Scheme and peer review criteria. All criminal solicitors who have registered with SLAB to provide criminal legal assistance are subject to p

The Legal Services Agency (LSA) has secured £180,000 from the Oak Foundation to provide a holistic legal service to homeless people, refugees, rough sleepers and people in unsatisfactory accommodation with complex needs. Nigel Scott, chief executive at the LSA said: “We are gra

It walks like a tablet, but talks like a laptop — the super slick Surface Pro is Microsoft’s answer to the latest iPad, and probably the one after that too.

Involving the UK’s devolved administrations on a formal basis should be part of post-Brexit trade negotiations according to the Law Society of Scotland. In its consultation response to the House of Commons International Trade Committee’s UK Trade Policy Transparency and Scrutiny inquiry,

Inward migration is crucial to Scotland’s growth and prosperity. People who choose to make Scotland their home provide a vital contribution to our country’s economy, enhance our collective social and cultural well-being, and help to make Scotland the open and forward-looking nation that

The PSNI has publicly shamed a member of the public who called 999 to complain that their local tanning salon had closed.The caller wanted to know "how they could claim back their unused 25 minutes", police said on Facebook.The post added: "Whilst the call handler is taking this call, listening to t

A new exhibition by National Records of Scotland (NRS) brings together records of the suffragettes and the Scottish justice system for the first time. Protests and arrests, hunger strikes and force-feeding are revealed in historical government, court and prison records, as well as notes from prison

The UK should be more willing to strike bargains with countries whose leaders may have committed war crimes and who do not share our values, according to a report from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The study, based on 21 global conflicts, represents the British government's most thorough anal

The recent decision in ICI v Merit Merrell Technology is the latest in a series of decisions in the dispute – described by Mr Justice Fraser as ‘long-running, and bitterly fought’ – relating to steelworks to be carried out by MMT at a new paint manufacturing facilit

UK truck owners and lessees could receive compensation totaling £14 billion without even having to sign up to a claim in one of the biggest class action suits in UK legal history. UK Trucks Claim Limited (UKTC) has issued proceedings on behalf of owners and lessees of over 600,000 trucks,