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Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon has announced three appointments to the Scottish Land Commission. Dr Lucy Beattie and Dr Calum MacLeod have been appointed as land commissioners and Robert Black as the tenant farming commissioner of the Scottish Land Commission.

Monkeys with discerning tastes have been accused of robbing a house of gold jewellery. The simians allegedly broke into the home in Talalla, in southern Sri Lanka, while the residents were working in the garden.

Scotland’s legal sector has made a strong start to 2025, with 103 new solicitors formally welcomed to the profession in central Edinburgh yesterday.

Gripping documentary series Murder Trial returns with two haunting new cases under the spotlight. As murder suspects go on trial, the victim’s families seek justice in Scotland’s High Court. The first two-parter, ‘Girl in the River’, follows one of the nation’s biggest

The Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, has appointed Lord Fairley to be president of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. He succeeds Mrs Justice Eady with effect from 1 February 2025.

A bill to "further improve" police complaints and police conduct procedures has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill aims to ensure allegations of misconduct among police officers and staff are dealt with more transparently and effectively

A former surgeon has been jailed for more than five-and-a-half years after admitting offences including assault occasioning actual bodily harm and child cruelty during multiple male circumcision operations. Dr Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court on 29 Octob

An online scammer tricked a woman out of more than €800,000 using AI-generated pictures of Brad Pitt. The 53-year-old French woman, named only as Anne, recently appeared on a French TV show to recount her story, saying that she was entirely convinced that the Hollywood star had fallen in love w

Macnabs LLP's Jane McNicol has achieved accreditation as a specialist in incapacity and mental disability law.  The firm said: "Highly regarded for her dedication to safeguarding the interests of vulnerable adults, Jane is regularly being appointed by courts to advocate for their well-being and

Slater and Gordon’s presence in Scotland is continuing to grow with the addition of a leading name in clinical negligence to its team. Derek Couper becomes the firm’s new head of medical negligence in Scotland, having built a reputation as a specialist in clinical negligence work through

Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace has welcomed Andrew Bruce back to the firm as an associate in a senior property role, after a brief spell with another local solicitor. Mr Bruce, born and bred in Peterhead, was a partner with Masson & Glennie prior to first joining Raeburn Christie Clark &am

The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Google's search and search advertising services under a new digital markets regulation regime. The probe is one of two strategic market status (SMS) designation investigations which are intended to be the first probes un

The WS Society is hosting two free talks later this month. Professor Chloe Kennedy's Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law is based in part on research conducted at the Signet Library and considers the law's response to deceptively induced intimacy across both civil and criminal law over

McKennas Law Practice has promoted assistant solicitor Lucy Anne Boylen to associate.

Two prisoners died after contracting Covid in circumstances which could not have been avoided, a fatal accident inquiry has found. Dumfries Sheriff Court heard that Gordon Pinkerton, 75, died on 22 April 2020 and that Francis Moore, 85, died on 27 February 2021.