Ireland is set to legislate to remove the so-called "honest belief" defence in rape trials, according to reports. The Law ...

The Law Society of Scotland has granted extended rights of audience to five new solicitor advocates in a ceremony held ...

A lord ordinary has refused a judicial review application by the “limbs in the loch” killer based on a February 2024 decision of the Parole Board for Scotland to again refuse to release him on licence ...

A fake medical practitioner who carried out a number of unsafe and illegal circumcisions causing lasting harm has been imprisoned for nine years. Mohammed Alazawi, 54, has been convicted of 40 ...

Andrew McConnell and Victoria Hayward of Beale & Co examine a recent court judgment on prescription. Prescription remains a ...

Michael Upton concludes his discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson's lawyerly credentials. Yesterday we marked the 150th ...

Law lecturer Dr Samuel White has been appointed as chair of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) board of ...

Prosecutors and support staff involved in investigations into Donald Trump have been sacked in what has been widely described ...

Scottish law firms are approaching the adoption of artificial intelligence with a mixture of caution and curiosity, according ...

ScottishPower's top lawyer, Marion Venman, has been appointed to the Glasgow School of Art's board of governors. Ms Venman ...

A bomb threat which grounded a passenger plane was found to be a hoax orchestrated by a furious mother trying to stop her ...

The nephew of Lord Ross has led tributes in an obituary published by The Courier in the late judge's native Dundee. Lord Ross, who served as lord justice clerk from 1985 to 1997, passed away on 26 ...