All Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service building in the red weather warning area are closed today. The warning for wind has ...

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. 'Hell on earth': China deportation looms for Uyghurs held in ...

County lines’ is a sub-genre, but not a lesser one, of the lucrative business involving controlled drugs. It is constituted ...

The High Court of Justiciary has increased the length of an extended sentence imposed on a man who groomed a teenage girl into having sex with him and made indecent communications towards another ...

Immediate action will be taken to address systemic failures in relation to deaths in prison custody, Justice Secretary Angela Constance has pledged. The Scottish government said it accepts Sheriff Col ...

Laura Paton has been appointed as the next Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC). Currently His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prosecution in Scotland, Ms Paton will take up her role as ...

A very important lesson for those embroiled in disputes – and for their lawyers, too – popped up last week in the postscript ...

Elephants are not people, the top court in the US state of Colorado has ruled. In a unanimous judgment, the Colorado Supreme ...

Iraqis have reacted with horror after the country's parliament passed a law allowing children as young as nine to marry. The ...

Edinburgh-based solicitor and estate agent Ralph Sayer has promoted Robyn Donaldson to partner in the firm. At 31, she ...

Scottish Land & Estates, the rural business organisation, has urged a complete rethink of the Land Reform Bill, warning that ...

Harper Macleod has advised on the sale of Glasgow-based McDonach IT Consultancy Ltd to IT Resolution Group Ltd, a company led ...