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A police officer who raised concerns about misuse of public money by Police Scotland was unlawfully treated by her employers, a tribunal has ruled. The Times reports that Amy McDonald, 45, former director of financial accountability at the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), contacted former Justice Se

A ruling of the UK Intellectual Property Office has been described as one of a catalogue that "strike against the Scottish legal profession". Cloch Solicitors, run by Philip Hannay, had sought to register the word 'loch' insofar as it is used for legal services, an application opposed by Loch E

A woman who allegedly stalked comedian Frankie Boyle for eight months last year has been ordered to stay away from him for three years, The Herald reports. Rebecca Gamble, 48, is alleged to have tormented Mr Boyle by appearing at his gigs at The Stand comedy club in Glasgow and the Sheraton Hotel in

Morton Fraser has been named as a provider of legal services in Scotland for Curtis Banks, the UK’s largest provider of self-invested personal pensions (SIPP). The latest appointment for Morton Fraser’s property in pensions team, the largest of its kind in Scotland, commenced in June 201

The Scottish Civil Justice Council has published its fifth annual report, which outlines its achievements, accounts and a summary of the rules prepared during the last year. Writing his foreword as council chair, the Lord President, Lord Carloway, charted the council’s continued work on civil

Turcan Connell is more than doubling the size of its Glasgow office due to rising client demand in the city.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of non-recent child sexual abuse. The inquiry, set up in 2014 to investigate the extent

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is calling on practitioners to respond to a survey on the issue of retaining lawyers in Scotland. With more and more lawyers moving to different jurisdictions or leaving the profession altogether the association has created a survey to identif

Divorcees looking for additonal payments from their former spouses were dealt a blow after the Supreme Court ruled a woman who spent all her settlement money cannot claim more from her ex-husband. Graham Mills, 52, challenged a Court of Appeal order mandating that he pay an extra £4,090 a year

Annabel Twose of First 100 Years writes about Jessie Chrystal Macmillan, a Scottish feminist, barrister and politician. She was the first female science graduate from the University of Edinburgh; the first woman to plead a case before the House of Lords and a founder of the Women’s Intern

A tourist was charged and fined after she brought an unexploded World War Two shell to Vienna airport. The 24-year-old found the munition while out walking in the Dachstein mountains, police in Lower Austria said.

The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by imposing illegal restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators, since 2011, to cement its dominant position as the leading internet search engine. The tech giant must now bring

Tommy Sheridan is appealing a decision to refuse him £200,000 in interest on a payout for defamation against former newspaper the News of the World. Mr Sheridan, a former MSP and one-time leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, won the sum after suing the publishers in 2006 at the Court of Ses