Yesterday marked four years since the Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Act 2021 came into force. The legislation, brought forward by Labour MSP Daniel ...

The government is planning a major shake-up of the asylum appeals system in a bid to reduce the number of migrants being housed in hotels while they await rulings. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said sh ...

Tens of thousands of offenders, including sex offenders, shoplifters, drug dealers and violent criminals, will avoid prison ...

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has dramatically increased the number of appeals against sentences judged to be too soft.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to grant summary decree in an action for repossession of residential premises in Dundee after determining that the appellant ...

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of 57-year-old Francis Docherty. He died on 23 January 2022 within HMP Perth.

A judge has blocked a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in schools. Texas' Senate Bill 10 was due to ...

Six new homes could be built in Haddington using money left to the town by a lawyer more than 80 years ago. John Richardson, a solicitor who also served as Musselburgh town clerk, died in 1940 and dir ...

Wendy McLaughlin, a senior workplace coordinator at Shoosmiths in Glasgow, has been practising hard for a special Strictly ...

With the Scottish government’s Housing Bill moving through Holyrood, one question keeps coming up in conversations with ...

Paul Weller, musician and former frontman of The Jam and the Style Council, has launched legal action against his former ...

An assassination is pre-eminently a political murder; a killing, in itself a crime, has been sanctioned by someone with an ...