A trainee lawyer who was mocked and beaten by police following an anti-globalisation protest in Italy in 2001 suffered a ...

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal against a sheriff’s decision that two residential landlords were not in breach of occupiers’ liability legislation as a result of their tenant’s children ...

A man who coated pheasant carcasses in rat poison to bait and injure other legally protected wildlife has been ordered to carry out 135 hours of unpaid work. Clive Burgoyne, 38, of Forfar, carried out ...

Four men convicted of bribery and corrupt practices over the awarding of NHS contracts worth £6 million have been imprisoned ...

Harper Macleod has advised on the sale of The Golden Lion Hotel, one of Scotland’s oldest and most culturally significant ...

A city's ban on yoga classes in public parks and beaches has been rubbished by a court. The US city of San Diego’s ban on ...

The Scotsman has published a full obituary of Lord Ross, who passed away on April 26 this year. "Donald Ross held a succession of the highest offices in the Scottish legal system of which he was a ...

David Cameron, the former prime minister, has joined DLA Piper as a consultant.  He will provide guidance on the various ...

A new bill aimed at tackling problems with Scotland’s 20-year-old freedom of information (FOI) regime has been welcomed. The ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is to establish a commission to consider whether the UK should withdraw from various ...

The trial of a Libyan man accused of constructing the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie has been postponed until spring 2026. Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, known as Masud, ...

David J Black reviews a brace of new books on Edinburgh, ‘Scotia’s darling seat’. Alistair Moffat’s A New History of ...