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Gilly Grant has been appointed secretary of the Scottish Council of Law Reporting, succeeding Anthony Kinahan who retires after 22 years in the role. Christine McLintock retired as chair of the council having served since 2023. She first joined the council as a trustee/director in 2017.

Ampersand has welcomed Sarah McWhirter and Tony Convery to the stable. Stable director Isla Davie KC said: “We are delighted that Sarah and Tony are joining Ampersand. They are already highly regarded as lawyers, and this is the start of incredibly promising careers for both at the Bar. Not on

The Criminal Justice Committee is seeking views on the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill. The bill, introduced by Ash Regan MSP, targets those who buy sexual services by creating a new criminal offence of paying for a sexual act.

A former soldier jailed for repeatedly raping a woman he met through online dating has had his prison sentence lengthened by two years after an appeal by the Crown to the High Court of Justiciary. Calum MacGregor was sentenced to four years and six months of imprisonment after being found guilty of

The US Supreme Court has delivered a significant victory to President Trump, ruling that lower federal courts lack the authority to impose nationwide injunctions blocking his executive orders. In a 6–3 decision on Friday, the court sided with the administration in a case concerning Mr Trump&rs

More than £348 million worth of illegal drugs went up in thick smoke in major cities across Myanmar as part of a day of action against drug abuse. Heroin, opium, speed, crystal meth, kratom, cannabis and ketamine were among the drugs put to the pyre as part of a ceremony that has raised eyebro

Buskers in the heart of Quebec City must now sing in French under new rules. Since May, two busy sites in Petit Champlain, the tourist hotspot of Quebec's capital city, have only allowed buskers to sing in French or play instrumental, CBC reports.

The Northern Ireland courts will be asked to rule on the definition of "sex" in equality law after the Equality Commission said there was "significant legal uncertainty" in the wake of a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling with implications for trans rights. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in April

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. A new special tribunal will investigate Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Will it be effective?

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a six-week call for views on its guidance for international data transfers under the UK GDPR. International data transfers underpin around 40 per cent of UK exports and 20 per cent of imports, enabling businesses to "access new markets,

The widow of a man who died unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage in 2016 has lost a case against the providers of his life insurance seeking payment under the policy after a lord ordinary found that he had made qualifying misrepresentations when filling out the proposal form to obtain cover. Gillian

Tucked away in the gallery of the coffee lounge library in the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow building lies a remarkable and often overlooked piece of the city’s legal and social history: the mortification boards. These black-painted wooden panels, with their gilt lettering and formal

Meta has secured a legal victory in a copyright case brought by a group of writers, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, who accused the company of unlawfully using their work to train its artificial intelligence models. The authors had alleged that Meta violated copyright law by using th