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The Law Society of Scotland is seeking urgent clarification from the Scottish government on why legal aid has again been ignored in the final budget before this year’s Holyrood election. Finance Secretary Shona Robinson announced the 2026-27 budget in the Scottish Parliament on 13 January 2026

A pensioner who taught himself the law to defend the length of grass in his garden has won a five-year battle against local officials. Canadian man Wolf Ruck, 79, told CTV News that he studied law at a postgraduate level in order to pursue his legal action over rules restricting the length of grass

Glasgow City Council has been fined £80,000 after a military veteran sustained life-changing injuries when he was struck by a falling lamppost in the city's west end in June 2023. A 50-year-old man was standing at the roadside in conversation with a work colleague when the lamppost collapsed,

The latest House Price Report from ESPC highlights a "well-balanced" local property market across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Scottish Borders, with clear trends emerging in what and where buyers were most keen to secure homes as 2025 came to a close. Based on sales data from October to De

A football fan who struck one of his own players with a plastic seat thrown from a stand has been imprisoned for 18 months. David Gowans, 32, of Aberdeen, has also been banned from attending football matches for 10 years.

Claudio Visco has been appointed as president of the International Bar Association (IBA). Mr Visco, a senior partner at Italian law firm Lipani Legal&Tax, has succeeded Jaime Carey, senior partner at Chilean law firm Carey.

Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns about AI-powered abuse of women and children. The regulator warned that some sexually-explicit images generated and shared by X users using the Grok AI chatbot may amount to intimate image abuse and child

Medics Against Violence (MAV), a charity operating across 10 hospital Emergency Departments, is among 19 organisations to receive a share of more than £1 million from the Victim Surcharge Fund, which is financed by penalties imposed on offenders who received a court fine.  The funding wil

A major international law firm is set to roll out a new scheme whereby junior lawyers can spend up to 20 per cent of their time on "hands-on AI exploration". Ropes & Gray piloted the AI programme in its US offices and is now set to bring it to London, according to The Times.

Lord Sales has been sworn in as the new deputy president of the Supreme Court. Lord Doherty has been sworn in as a new justice of the Supreme Court. Lord Sales was appointed to the role of Deputy President following the announcement of Lord Hodge’s retirement. 

Two prisoners have been convicted of running a sophisticated telephone scam from behind bars which netted nearly half a million dollars from dozens of victims. Joey Amour Jackson and Lance Riddle – also known as "Apeshit" and "C-Port" – masterminded the scheme while locked up in the US s

A Labour MP has launched an attack on Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed jury trial reforms, warning he could force a by-election unless the plans are abandoned, and revealed that his opposition is rooted in a personal experience of being falsely accused of a crime. Karl Turner, the former shadow sol

Climate change and the legal response to same is one of the most pressing and difficult issues in contemporary society. This free event will bring together all of those interested in the subject across the legal profession and academe to discuss how legal remedies can be developed. 

Relationship support charity, Relationships Scotland, has announced the appointment of Ewan Malcolm as its new chair. Mr Malcolm, who takes over from Dianne Millen, brings four decades of experience as an accomplished CEO, chair, mediator, and conflict resolution specialist, spanning law, organisati

Regulations have been laid at Holyrood that will make it easier for victims of domestic abuse to remain safely in their homes with the tenancy in their name. For the first time social landlords, rather than the victims themselves, will be allowed to take legal action to end an abuser’s tenancy