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Sikhs have threatened to take legal action against Scottish government ministers if they are classified as a religion rather than an ethnic minority on the census. Sikhism is an Indian religion founded by Guru Nanak in the fifteenth century.

The number of diversion from prosecution cases commenced in Scotland rose by seven per cent between 2017 and 2019 to over 1,800, around the same as the levels in 2014-15 and 2015-16. The statistics report, Criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2018-19, published today by Sco

A Scots law student is set to spend the summer working with a death row project in America. Iain Mathieson, who graduated from Dundee University in 2018, will be working with the Arizona Capital Representation Project as a caseworker, assisting the organisation in its death penalty litigation work.

A third of courthouses in England and Wales have been closed in the past decade and sold to raise up to £250 million, new research indicates. The number of courts fell from 923 in 2010 to 628 by the end of 2019, The Times reports.

Anderson Strathern has appointed Jemma Richardson as a director in its residential property team following growth in business. Ms Richardson joins the firm from Simpson & Marwick. She’ll work alongside the head of residential property, Sara Jalicy, and head of East Lothian operations, Grah

A Scots lawyer who represented an elderly victim of a mortgage fraudster has been struck off the solicitors’ roll after being found guilty of “professional misconduct” over his failure to act his client’s best interests. Solicitor Alistair Bowie, 69, concluded missives w

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Inheritance Tax and Intergenerational Fairness has published proposals for radical reform of the current inheritance tax system. The move follows two previous reports from the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS), with the APPG proposing sweeping changes.

An item of jewellery has become the bane of a police force after it appealed for help in finding its "rightful owner". The item in question is a replica of the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings.

Plans to devolve various tribunals to Scotland as part of the Smith agreement are to be delayed by at least two years, The Herald reports. The Scottish government was meant to take over the operation of a number of tribunals but a report now makes clear this will now not take place “before 202

Lawyers gathered for the Aberdeen Bar Association's Burns Supper at the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen.

Terra Firma Chambers’ Julius Komorowski has been appointed by the Judicial Appointments Commission as a salaried tribunal judge (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). Mr Komorowski called to the bar in 2008 where he established an extensive practice involving regular appearances against the UK gove

Emma Toner of Compass Chambers has been appointed editor of Session Cases, the Scottish Council of Law Reporting (SCLR) has announced. Ms Toner, who had been deputy editor since 2016, succeeds Julius Komorowski, who has become a tribunal judge.

I was invited to speak at the conference of the Cyrenians’ Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution and took the opportunity to read their very detailed report: Transforming Conflict, Improving Relationships and Lives. A very sobering read it was. Fabulous work is being done with families on th

Thorntons has raised £75,000 for Cash for Kids through its Charity Wills initiative – a £13,000 increase on the previous year.

A prisoner who claimed that prison authorities breached his human rights by opening a letter addressed to him has had his petition for judicial review dismissed as “incompetent”. William McCulloch was seeking declarator that the opening of his correspondence was “incompatible&