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Communities across Dundee are benefiting from unpaid work imposed as a sentence by courts. The city council’s Community Safety and Public Protection Committee will hear that unpaid work teams contributed to a number of city projects last year, representing around £250,000 worth of labour

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A judge in Utah has been suspended without pay for six months after he made critical comments about President Donald Trump in court and on social media, CNN reports. According to the ruling of the Utah Supreme Court, Judge Michael Kwan's Facebook posts were "laden with blunt, and sometimes indelicat

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A man was arrested after allegedly giving a fake name to police while wearing a lanyard around his neck that bore his real name. According to police, Markel Towner, 26, said his name was "Deangelo Towns" even though a lanyard around his neck clearly read "Markel Towner".

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Community land ownership in Scotland relies on a wide range of financing models, according to a new report published by the Scottish Land Commission. The report, entitled The Range, Nature And Applicability Of Funding Models To Support Community Land Ownership, identifies 13 different approaches tha

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Scottish property sales have risen to their highest level in 11 years as buyers brush aside fears over Brexit. New figures from Aberdein Considine’s Property Monitor report show that homes collectively worth £3.4 billion changed hands during January, February and March this year –

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Popular chief executive and public servant Michael Brown has passed away at the age of 73, The Courier reports. An Aberdeen University law graduate, Mr Brown held a succession of legal posts in Scotland before becoming director of administration in Dundee District Council.

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The lawyer representing a number of people abused by a former Celtic youth coach has criticised the club for being unwilling to compensate victims. Jim McCafferty, 73, a former Celtic Boys Club coach, was jailed last week for six years and nine months after admitting he had molested boys over the co

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A leading figure from a law association in Africa has chosen Scotland and its law society for a three-week executive internship in Scotland to learn lessons on how to build capacity in his home country. Edward Sakala, executive director of the Law Association of Zambia, is the recipient of the inaug

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