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A worker at the Royal Canadian Mint accused of smuggling $180,000 worth of gold, in his rectum, has appeared before a judge – named Justice Doody. Leston Lawrence, 35, was alleged to have taken nugget-sized pieces of gold, known as “pucks” to a gold buyer in Ottawa on multiple occasions, the O

A drug dealer sentenced to seven years in prison was caught after sharing brazen photos of his ill-gotten gains on Instagram. Levi Watson, 29, shared pictures of him posing with cash, jewellery and sports cars, despite telling police he had no regular income.

David Mundell The Scottish Parliament today takes on new powers which will allow it to adapt the existing UK welfare system more closely to Scotland’s needs.

Police Scotland has created the most senior civilian role in its history in order to deliver a “sustainable operating model”. David Page is to become the single force’s new director of corporate services, strategy and change and will earn £173,010 a year.

Pictured (L-R): Owen Wilton, Michaela Guthrie, Jonny Gilmour and Ross Forrest

Inverness Sheriff Court has paid tribute to Golspie procurator fiscal Alasdair MacDonald, who has passed away at the age of 60, The Northern Timesreports. Mr MacDonald passed away after a brief battle with cancer, his funeral was held at the Fountain Road Church Hall, Golspie last week.

Alan McIntosh Alan McIntosh of Govan Law Centre writes about the different ways PPI claims and protected trust deeds are dealt with in court.

Mike Ashley has been ordered to pay the expenses of the Scottish Football Association and Dave King after his petition for judicial review of a decision of football’s governing body to approve the Rangers chairman as a “fit and proper person” to hold the position of director of Rangers Interna

The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed the appeal of an unfairly dismissed fingerprint officer involved in the McKie scandal, finding that the original Employment Tribunal’s (ET) interpretation of the relevant legislation leading to a reinstatement order was sound. Lord Hodge, with whom Lady Ha

The Scottish Episcopal Church is set to become the first church in the UK to allow its clergy to conduct same-sex church weddings, The Times reports. Scotland's third-largest church will take a vote on its position on Thursday 9 June.

Sir Tom Hunter The Hunter Foundation has teamed up with some of the UK’s leading European scholars to produce a free ebook to answer voters’ questions before the EU referendum on 23 June.

The Hillsborough inquest, the longest in British legal history, has concluded that 96 football fans who were crushed to death in 1989 were unlawfully killed. The jury answered 14 questions about how people died at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Chinese civil servants have been baffled by colourful propaganda comics urging them to beware of handsome foreigners. A 16-panel comic strip displayed in posters across Beijing follows a young female civil servant, Xiao Li, who is tricked into handing secret files to a red-haired foreigner, David. T

Footballer Ched Evans, who was jailed for rape in 2012 has had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal – but will face a fresh trial. Mr Evans, 27, was imprisoned for the rape of a woman, 19, at a hotel near Rhyl, Denbighshire and was released in October 2014 after serving half of a five yea

A founder of the law firm at the centre of revelations into the offshore wealth of world leaders, criminals and others – disclosed in a cache of 11.5 million documents – has said the firm was hacked. Ramon Fonseca, of Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, has lodged a criminal complaint with prosecut