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Elton John's half-brother tried and failed to bring an enormous trident spear to his court appearance for possessing magic mushrooms. Geoff Dwight, 56, from Ruthin in north Wales, brought the long pole-shaped item to Llandudno Magistrates Court last week but was prevented by security guards from bri

An Aberdeen Law School academic has started the year by delivering a series of presentations on the planet's most valuable resource to international audiences. Professor Zeray Yihdego, co-director of the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law, was in India at the start of th

Proposed UK government amendments to its controversial Troubles bill do not address concerns raised by victims and human rights campaigners and some of them "would actually make the bill worse", according to a new analysis. Northern Ireland's Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) and acad

A decision to label a children's book depicting same-sex relationships as harmful to young children violated the author's right to free speech, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

Chala McKenna, an environmental lawyer at Davidson Chalmers Stewart, has been awarded chartered status with the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM). She joins her colleague Laura Tainsh, a partner at the commercial law firm, to become only the second Scottish solicitor to achieve this

McGovern Reid has opened a new office in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow.

Edward Hunter, a partner in Burness Paull’s corporate finance team, has been recognised as a rising star in an industry benchmark. The Lawyer’s annual Hot 100 list, which it describes as “the crème de la crème of the legal world”, features “the most daring

Lawyer Shalinay Raghavan has been appointed as "non-executive whistleblowing champion member" of The State Hospitals Board for Scotland. Miss Raghavan has a keen interest in mental health, staff well-being and good organisational governance. She is currently head of employment law at the Scottish go

The DWF Foundation has surpassed £1m in donations. The foundation is an independent charity that was launched by DWF. Since December 2015, the foundation has been the focus of charitable giving for DWF and reflects the Group's values.

Cold case investigators today released a new facial reconstruction image in a bid to identify a man whose body was found in woods just outside Glasgow more than 11 years ago. Mystery surrounds the discovery of human remains in woodland near Balmore Golf Club, East Dunbartonshire, on 16 October 2011.

A housing developer that challenged the rejection of planning permission for around a hundred houses to the north of Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, has lost its appeal to the Inner House of the Court of Session. Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd argued that the reporter for the Scottish Ministers who considered the in

A police force has denied embarrassing reports that a "woman screaming" in its own car park turned out to be one of its off-duty officers having sex with a colleague. Alarm bells were raised at the 79th precinct of the New York Police Department (NYPD) after a concerned citizen called 911 to report

A Scottish government bill has come under fire for failing to define simple legal concepts. The Bail and Release from Custody (Scotland) Bill seeks to reduce the number of prisoners on remand but risks creating bad law, Scottish Labour has warned.

WhatsApp has said it will appeal a decision by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) to impose a €5.5 million fine for forcing users to consent to the processing of their personal data for service improvement and security. A spokesperson for the messaging platform, which is already challen

All we have heard from the Scottish government is "froth and rage" over the UK government's veto of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, a former Supreme Court justice has said. Writing in The Sunday Times, Lord Sumption says that "the suggestion that the UK government’s veto is an a