Scotland must rethink its approach to sentencing and imprisonment according to the independent Sentencing and Penal Policy ...

Deception, Consent and the Law’, by Professor Chloë Kennedy of Edinburgh Law School, has been shortlisted for the Socio-Legal ...

Dallas McMillan has recently added Natalia Rogolska and Jennifer Kerr to its private client team, taking the total number of ...

The creation of a new criminal offence of 'ecocide' has moved closer as Holyrood voted to progress the Ecocide (Scotland) ...

MSPs have unanimously backed plans to tighten regulation of cosmetic procedures including botox injections and non-surgical ...

A man who stole multiple identities and accumulated more than £1 million in false bank accounts has been imprisoned for four years. Craig Milligan, 47, of Dumfries, used several aliases – including ...

The Law Society of Scotland has launched a new series of roadshow events to provide smaller law firms with free business support in areas such as technology and regulatory compliance. The first ...

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has expressed grave concern over escalating incidents of human rights violations committed by public authorities in the United ...

A journalist who was prosecuted and subsequently acquitted of a statutory offence of threatening and abusive behaviour after making a YouTube video about the outcome of the Alex Salmond trial has lost ...

A sheriff has recommended in a fatal accident inquiry determination that the Scottish Ambulance Service takes measures to improve its telephony service. David McClenaghan, a manager wit Park’s Motor ...

A jury has cleared six Palestine Action activists of aggravated burglary charges linked to an attack on an Israeli-owned UK ...

Justice secretary Angela Constance "must" confirm she will urgently publish details of a consultation ahead of her plans to ...