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A member of the Faculty of Advocates is to be contributing editor for a portfolio of titles for The Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia. Jacqueline Fordyce has been appointed to work on the volumes for criminal law, public international law and human rights.

Victims of the Nazis who fled Austria during the Third Reich have been given citizenship by the country's parliament. The children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of hundreds of thousands of Jewish people persecuted by the Nazis will be able to apply for Austrian nationality.

Balfour and Manson has promoted two lawyers to associate: Scott Clair, a solicitor within the litigation team in Edinburgh, and Sophie Hamilton Pike, a family law team solicitor in Aberdeen. Mr Clair, who joined the firm as a trainee in 2015, specialises in resolving civil disputes for both pur

Last weekend, the number of daily subscribers to our sister publication Scottish Housing News broke through 7,000 on the back of record website traffic for August with 69,209 unique visitors accessing the website. The number of Twitter followers for Scottish Housing News, which was established in 20

Academics are to investigate the impact of the alcohol minimum unit pricing law on homeless drinkers. The research is being led by experts from Glasgow Caledonian University’s substance use and misuse research group.

Police Scotland has spent more than £8 million on establishing a contingency plan for Brexit, new figures reveal. According to a report due to go before the Scottish Police Authority board tomorrow, the force has spent £8,053,218 up to September 9 on planning for Brexit.

A police officer who arrested and handcuffed a six-year-old black girl for misbehaving at school has been suspended pending an internal investigation, US media reports. Another child, aged eight years old, was also arrested by Orlando police officer Dennis Turner on the same day, but only the six-ye

A teenage girl has been arrested after she allegedly stole money from her parents in order to commit parricide. Florida girl Alyssa Michelle Hatcher, 17, is accused of stealing around $1,500 from her parents' bank account and spending $1,300 on two separate plots to have them murdered.

The Supreme Court will hand down its judgment in the Brexit cases tomorrow morning at 10:30 am. Lady Hale, Lord Reed, Lord Wilson, Lord Hodge, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden and Lord Kitchin will be in attendance at the hand down in the cases of R (on the application of Miller) (Appellant) v The Prime

A new video explains why an age verification system is needed in law "just as with alcohol, cigarettes and gambling" to protect children from the serious health risks posed by pornography.

A new report suggests that greater uptake of legal expenses insurance (LEI) by individuals could increase access to justice for the ‘forgotten middle’ – individuals without disposable income to spend on private legal services, but whose earnings or assets prohibit qualification for

Clyde & Co has entered into an agreement to transfer its Simpson & Marwick Aberdeen estate agency team to Ledingham Chalmers LLP from 4 November this year. All 12 Simpson & Marwick Aberdeen staff, including property partner David Geddie and senior associate Lynne Stewart, will transfer a

Registers of Scotland will be hosting three full day conferences this autumn, all of which are FREE to attend. The full-day ‘A Future Focus’ events taking place in Inverness, Aberdeen and Glasgow will give members of the legal profession the opportunity to meet RoS experts and learn the

The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has launched a crowdfunding campaign today to raise £20,000 to defend a landmark judgment granting employment rights to a type of specialist foster care workers. Glasgow County Council is appealing an employment tribunal decision fro

The last day to buy tickets for the Tumbling Lassie Ball is Thursday 26 September 2019.