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A convicted murderer who botched the removal of his ankle tag will likely need to have his leg amputated, prison authorities have said. The man was tracked down nearly two weeks after removing his ankle tag while on parole.

A woman who appealed the granting of a contact order on the grounds that the sheriff had not ascribed appropriate weight to child evidence in light of expert evidence has had her appeal refused. The Sheriff Appeal Court, sitting in Edinburgh, heard an appeal by CM, the defender at first in

The former President of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal for Scotland has had his claim for a pension from the Scottish government rejected by an employment tribunal. Colin McEachran QC, who sat on the Tribunal between 1995 and 2013, used the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatme

Last month Ayrshire New Potatoes, known more commonly as Ayrshire Earlies, joined the ranks of other iconic Scottish food and drink products when they were granted Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status. As Neeraj Thomas explains, however, their newfound protection may be soon endangere

Over the past three months, the average selling price in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders was £256,730, which was a 4.1 per cent increase compared to last year, ESPC reports. In Edinburgh, the average selling price was £276,582, which was a four per cent increase compared to

Gilson Gray has been appointed to the Scottish Government Legal Services Framework. The firm has achieved a listing on lot 6 of the framework for the provision of legal services, also known as the ‘one stop shop’.

Edinburgh residents are being asked to share their views on a scheme that requires people who have committed offences to carry out unpaid work in the community as part of their sentence. Community payback orders (CPO) can be imposed on people who have committed offences by the courts as an alternati

Insolvency law and practice has undergone a number of fundamental changes in recent years, a process that has accelerated with the introduction of the new Scottish insolvency rules in 2006. With companies adopting more intricate structures and operating across more borders than before, the insolvenc

Intellectual property firm Marks & Clerk has been named an official corporate sponsor of Banchory Beer Festival in Deeside for the third year running – and the event is brewing up an even bigger line-up this time. The event, held at the Deeside Rugby Club Pitches, is a festival of beer, ci

New Zealand is set to decriminalise abortion under new plans intended to bring the law "into line with many other developed countries". Under the present legal framework, which has remained unchanged since 1978, an abortion is only lawful in certain circumstances, including where continuing the preg

Police in a Texas town have been forced to apologise after photos emerged of an arrested black man being led with a rope by two white officers on horseback. The photos attracted sharp criticism on social media and from civil rights groups, who said the images resembled historic photos of slavery and

A man has successfully sued magicians who failed to make his estranged wife return using "magic knowledge". The man, whose name has not been made public, hired the company after it promised in a TV advert that it could "return your wife or loved woman".

A man found guilty of the rape of two former partners on the basis of the principle of “mutual corroboration” has had an appeal against his conviction rejected. The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court ruled that jury were entitled to infer that the two incidents were part of

The mother of a child with selective mutism has been unsuccessful in establishing that it would be in the child’s best interests to relocate to her native Germany and have that be the child's principal residence. Sheriff Ian Cruickshank heard evidence from MK, the pursuer, who sought a residen

Campaigners have called for the legal fees of bereaved families in fatal accident inquiries (FAI) to be paid out of public funds, just as all Scottish Prison Service (SPS) legal fees are paid for by the taxpayer. The SPS has spent seven times more on solicitor fees in FAIs than bereaved families hav