At this critical juncture for the future of legal aid and access to justice, the Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG) and GO ...

Solicitor Ben Kemp has been appointed to become the new chief executive officer of the Law Society of Scotland. Mr Kemp will ...

American judges say they and their relatives have been receiving anonymous pizza deliveries in what appears to be a novel ...

Holyrood has voted for the first time to consider legalising assisted dying for people with terminal illnesses, following a ...

An Edinburgh sheriff has made no recommendations following the conclusion of a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a man who was struck by a tram after finding that the defects that led to his ...

A former local authority employee who embezzled more than £1 million from Aberdeen City Council over a 17-year period has ...

The UK government has been urged to rethink its immigration white paper to "take account of Scotland’s distinct population ...

Lawyers at Levy & McRae completed a charity skydive on Easter Sunday.

Over 60 organisations have written to the UK government ahead of a major meeting of the Council of Europe, urging them to back proposals for an additional binding Protocol to the European Convention ...

The Law Society of Scotland has urged MSPs to consider a number of important technical legal matters separate from the moral and ethical questions in relation to proposed assisted dying legislation. T ...

A man who died while having sex at his workplace was the victim of an industrial accident, a Chinese court has ruled. The man, who was in his 60s, suddenly died during a rendezvous with his long-time ...

A man who was extradited from Germany to stand trial after raping a vulnerable teenage girl has been jailed for eight years. Marwan Al-Bakr was found guilty of attacking the 15-year-old near Hampden ...