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BTO Solicitors' Caroline Carr and Laura Salmond are to serve as Scotland’s primary ambassadors for the Mackrell International legal network.

Jones Whyte associate solicitor Rebecca Devine has received a STEP Excellence Award. The accolade is awarded to the top scoring students at distinction level in the STEP exams globally, underscoring Ms Devine's exceptional expertise and dedication in the field of trust law.

The missing postal ballot issue could go to court as losing candidates or disenfranchised voters challenge the results. Candidates and voters have 21 days following the results to apply to the Election Petitions Office in order to challenge the outcome.

A top university in Vietnam sparked controversy after banning students who are "too short". Vietnam National University's School of Management and Business (HSB) said students must be at least 5'2" if they're women or 5'5" if they're men or they won't be considered for admission.

A part-time dog walker has been imprisoned for five months after a dog and its six puppies – four of which had to be put down – were left in squalor in his faeces-ridden flat. One puppy was found to have a broken jaw, and another was suffering from two healing leg fractures where the bon

A former Boys Brigade leader and youth football coach has been jailed after historically abusing seven boys in his care. Craig Menzies targeted his victims at various locations across Scotland between 1986 and 2004. The 55-year-old met four of his victims when he was a unit leader with the 118th Boy

Meta's "pay or consent" advertising model on Facebook and Instagram does not comply with the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has said. The Commission informed the social media giant on Monday of its preliminary findings that the binary choice forces users to consent to the comb

Yesterday was a significant day for Scots law on lump sum damages in personal injury claims for future monetary loss, typically compensation for lost future income or care needs, writes Natalie Gibb. The personal injury discount rate (PIDR) is an allowance for investment assumed to be earned once th

The 20th anniversary of the merger between Raeburn Christie & Co and Clark and Wallace in June 2004 was the excuse for the firm to host a lavish charity ball at the Chester Hotel on 21 June.

Homeowners in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders are not aware of the full extent of the Scottish government’s expectations when it comes to the proposed net-zero targets for owner-occupied properties, according to ESPC. The research indicates that the Scottish government needs to g

A man in his 20s who allegedly tried to board a plane while disguised as a sexagenarian has been arrested. Guru Sewak Singh, 24, dyed his hair and beard white and wore glasses to allegedly try and convince officials at Delhi Airport that he was a 67-year-old man, NDTV reports.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that former presidents enjoy a degree of immunity from criminal prosecution in a case revolving around former president Donald Trump. The court's conservative majority voted 6-3 that presidents were protected from prosecution for official actions that extended to the &

The WS Society has welcomed its first cohort of WS Summer Scholars.

A former inmate at a Chinese prison has claimed in a new lawsuit that he was subjected to five months' forced labour in which he made products for American company Milwaukee Tool. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the former prisoner of Chishan Prison in China’s Hunan Province, who uses the p

Twenty new members were admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in calling ceremonies held last week.