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New findings from Bank of Scotland’s Business Barometer show that AI is helping Scottish firms work more efficiently and unlock new opportunities for growth. Scottish businesses integrating AI into their operations are reporting significant financial benefits, with 96 per cent seeing increased

Our sister publication Irish Legal News is enjoying a spring boost with several milestones to be reached in March. On LinkedIn, its popular page is poised to exceed 33,000 followers, while subscribers to its free daily newsletter have risen to over 12,000.

The head priest and dean of a 150-year-old church has been charged with shoplifting a four-figure sum's worth of trading cards. The Very Rev Aidan Smith, dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh, is alleged to have stolen 27 packs of baseballs cards from a Walmart.

With the kind permission of The Times, Scottish Legal News reproduces below the newspaper's obituary of David J Black. David was a gifted writer whose many pieces for us over the years, whether they followed the money or lampooned hypocrites, evoked both fervent endorsement and opposition. No one co

Our hand-curated weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Questions mount for Hegseth over possible US involvement in strike on Iranian school | BBC News

An e-bike cyclist who killed an elderly man while riding on the pavement has been sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment suspended for two years for his manslaughter in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in the country. Clifford Cage was riding an e-bike along City Way in Rochester on 6

Military action taken without UN Security Council authorisation or an armed attack on Iran risks undermining the international legal order and widening conflict across the Gulf, lawyers warn in an open letter. The International Bar Association (IBA) and the IBA’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI

The University of Aberdeen Mooting Society will host the finals of the Main Faculty Moot on 19 March. This year’s competition will be judged by Michael D Anderson KC, a graduate of the university and an experienced criminal advocate who was called to the bar in 2006 and took silk in 2022. 

Lawyers from Dentons’ Edinburgh and Glasgow offices took part in the 2026 LandAid SleepOut in Edinburgh on 5 March, spending a night outdoors to raise funds to help tackle youth homelessness. Dentons disputes partner Philip Knight joined his colleagues Liam McCabe, Lauren Fowler, Fraser Crombi

An Australian court has reversed pop singer Katy Perry's triumph over fashion designer Katie Perry in a trademark dispute. Katie Perry initially won when she sued the singer for trademark infringement in 2023 – but the ruling was overturned on appeal in 2024.

Ukraine's top court has dismissed a challenge to a ruling which recognised a same-sex couple as a de facto family. Human rights campaigners have welcomed the outcome in the case, which concerned a Ukrainian diplomat posted to Israel and his partner, a civil society activist.

A petition calling for a ban on Scotland's controversial "guga hunt" is to remain open into the next parliamentary session, MSPs have decided. The Scottish Parliament's Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee yesterday agreed to keep open the petition, which has been signed over 100,000

Scottish academics have contributed to a new collection celebrating women in legal history, launched at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Published by Bloomsbury, Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline champions the work of women in legal history and their contributions

Prison officials have confirmed the death of a 19-year-old man at the Polmont Young Offenders Institution (YOI). The death will renew scrutiny of the facility a year after a sheriff determined that the deaths in custody of Katie Allan and William Brown in 2018 could have been avoided.

A dispute between the University of St Andrews and its rector, Stella Maris, has been brought to a conclusion by Lord Keen of Elie KC. Ms Maris will resume her position on the University Court of the University of St Andrews after agreeing to provide an undertaking that she is "bound by collective r