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The trial of three alleged fake lawyers was abruptly halted after it emerged their lawyer was himself not qualified to practise. Peter Ngeri Ouma admitted not holding a valid practising certificate while appearing in a Kenyan court representing three men accused of fraudulently masquerading as lawye

Postmasters that suffered shortfalls as a result of the faulty Capture accounting software can now apply for redress as the UK government launches its new Capture Redress Scheme.  The scheme follows the government's acceptance of findings of an investigation by independent forensic accountants

An American lawyer furloughed due to the ongoing US government shutdown has started a side business selling hot dogs. Isaac Stein has launched his self-deprecating "Shysters Dogs" while furloughed from his full-time job at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), NPR reports.

A man who sexually assaulted two young girls after dragging them off the street in a bid to rape them has been jailed for over six years. Regan McClinton followed and attacked both children within less than 30 minutes of each other in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, on 22 April 2023.

Burness Paull has become the first law firm to sign up to the Pathways Pledge, an initiative created by Pathways Forward in response to the findings of the Scottish government-commissioned Pathways: A New Approach for Women in Entrepreneurship report aimed at dramatically raising the participation l

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Jones Whyte has been named Scottish Top Employer of the Year at The Herald and s1jobs Top Employer Awards 2025.

Angela Grahame KC has been named a doctor of the university by Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Since she was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1995, she has gone on prosecute major High Court cases, took silk in 2009, and become only the second women in nearly 500 years to be named vice-dea

Demand for commercial property in Scotland rose in the last quarter, driven by an uptick in the office subsector, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) commercial property monitor. But there are signs of some caution amidst rising uncertainty and fiscal tension.

Attorney General Lord Hermer has blamed the collapse of the Chinese spying prosecution on outdated espionage laws in the UK. He said that prosecutors had acted in good faith in attempting to secure convictions against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry – both of whom deny any wrongdoing &n

MSPs have voted to create a law obliging the owners of large landholdings to publish plans on how they will increase biodiversity, as part of the new Land Reform Bill – in what the Scottish Rewilding Alliance (SRA) said is a "big step towards a Rewilding Nation". The SRA has campaigned for the

A team of Greenpeace activists installed prison bars around three iconic statues in Parliament Square yesterday to highlight the government’s "apparent desire to cast protesters as criminals and terrorists". The activists imprisoned statues of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and the Suffragist

A police officer admitted to joining a remote court hearing with no trousers on after being questioned by an incredulous judge. Video footage from a district court in the US state of Michigan shows the police officer joining the Zoom hearing in his uniform, sans trousers.

An event being held next month will celebrate the life of Thomas Muir. Lenzie Academy, in East Dunbartonshire, is to host a symposium on the eighteenth-century Scottish champion of political democracy.

Our sister publication Irish Legal News is seeking views from Scots lawyers on the standard of proof which should be applied in disciplinary tribunals. Members of the Law Society of Northern Ireland last week forced a U-turn on its position that there was now a "consensus" that the civil standard (o