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Irrespective of one’s politics, it is irrefutable that John Maclean was one of the great men of politics making history in early twentieth-century Red Clydeside. So why is he so sparingly discussed in this book whose title purports to be a new biography? The early chapters rattle along recount

A man has today been jailed for a minimum of 22 years following the murder of his wife’s 78-year-old grandmother, committed in a rage after she refused his demands for money. Adam Wright, 39, of Bishop's Waltham, was sentenced yesterday after he pleaded guilty to the murder of June Henty.

A man who sued for the right to a personalised licence plate reading "GAY" has finally received it. Ohio man William Saki took legal action against the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) after he was told the word "gay" had been banned on custom plates since 1996.

The former staff of a bakery that went bust have won almost £1 million in compensation. Employees at Mortons Rolls will get the cash after winning a court case against the UK government over their redundancy payouts.

Dentons has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) new RM6360 Legal Panel for Government framework. The six lots Dentons is named on are:

Thompsons Solicitors Scotland has been named Litigation Team of the Year at the Herald Law Awards of Scotland 2025.

The record for the number of new Scottish solicitor traineeships has been broken for the third time in five years. Law Society of Scotland data shows 796 new traineeships were commenced during the 2024-25 legal practice year through to the end of October.

An assault on the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan has been condemned by the International Bar Association. At the core of the country's new 27th Constitutional Amendment is the creation of a permanent Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) under the newly inserted Part VII of Pakistan’s

Femicide is to become a standalone criminal offence in Italy under legislation now backed by the country's parliament. The lower chamber of the Italian parliament gave unanimous backing to the government bill on Tuesday, coinciding with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against W

The High Court of Justiciary has allowed a Crown appeal against an eight-month Restriction of Liberty Order imposed on an Aberdeen woman who entered a complainer’s home without consent on two occasions, the latter of these as part of an attempted robbery, and ordered that she instead be impris

Magna Carta provides justification for restricting jury trials to only the most serious offences, a cabinet minister has claimed, prompting accusations that Labour is “selectively quoting” the charter to defend sweeping proposed reforms. Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime min

New figures show that police recorded 48,564 shoplifting offences, up from 42,271 the previous year. David Lonsdale, Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, said more had to be done to tackle the problem.