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The PSNI and the Metropolitan Police unlawfully spied on investigative journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled.

Freeths has advised construction and insurance law specialist Beale & Co on the opening of its first office in Scotland. With its new Glasgow office, Beale & Co now has a presence across England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the UAE.

A US politician has been roundly mocked after sharing an image of a downed "drone" which was actually a Star Wars prop. Doug Mastriano, a US army veteran and Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate, later claimed he was joking after he posted the image of the TIE fighter to X, formerly Twitter.

Scotland’s overcrowded prisons are a “disaster waiting to happen” as prison populations are set to rise again, Scottish Labour has said. Latest prison population projections state that “it is likely that the overall prison population will increase between 1st November 2024 an

Kennedys has announced the appointment of John Bruce as its new senior partner. He was appointed following a formal election process amongst the firm’s 349 partners globally.

Northern Ireland's criminal courts will grind to a halt in January after criminal barristers announced a significant escalation of their industrial action over legal aid fees. Members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) are to withdraw from appearing in all legally aided Crown Court cases listed b

Dear Editor, Ian Moir is a truly deserving recipient of SLN's lawyer of the month award. His dogged commitment for a number of years to the campaign on legal aid culminating in the recent unprecedented publicity is exceptional. The commitment of the government to reform the system in 2026 is a token

The WS Society is launching an AI special interest group (SIG) for its members. Fiona Killen will lead the AI SIG. She said: “Scotland needs to catch up fast with the impact of AI in the law and legal system.

The UK has been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for its alleged failure to comply with EU law on free movement of EU citizens and their family members at the end of 2020. The European Commission believes there were several shortcomings in the UK's implementation of the

An obituary has been published for Margaret McArthur Hall CBE, a pioneering woman in Scots law, who has passed away at the age of 91. "It is as well for the legal profession that neither Margaret Murray, nor her father, followed the advice of the family solicitor. In 1950, when Margaret told her par

One of Glasgow’s busiest and best-known civil and criminal litigation firms is to be celebrated at an event next year. Founded on 1 October 1975 by Andrew Gallen, the business became part of The Glasgow Law Practice at the end of October. All offices, staff and clients of Gallen and Co have be

There is an urgent need for much clearer and comprehensive standards and their application on the use of solitary confinement for children in prisons and youth institutions in Europe, according to new research. In spite of an absolute prohibition within the Nelson Mandela rules – the standard

As many as 1,360 children have never been reunited with their parents six years after they were forcibly separated at the US border, according to a new report. The 135-page report from Human Rights Watch, the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), and the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at

Hundreds of offences committed by Star Trek fans have been erroneously blamed on one woman for years, her lawyer has said. New York woman Beda Koorey has experienced legal trouble for more than four years because of a state-issued license plate which reads NCC 1701.

Drinks giant Diageo has been fined more than half a million pounds at Inverness Sheriff Court after a whisky distillery worker suffered burns when he was scalded by boiling liquid in a workplace accident. On March 24, 2021, Michael Thomson was working at the Glenlossie Distillery near Elgin when an