Canada’s federal prisons are to provide inmates with paper straws, foil and drug-testing strips as part of a harm-reduction ...

With the darker nights drawing in, Terra Firma will be providing some legal illumination with three afternoons of topical talks, professional insight and networking. The series kicks off in Edinburgh ...

Why, asks Dr Macdonald, did the Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who ‘controlled’ their history. The answer has implications as ...

Lawyers and their clients have raised more than £20,000 to help improve the lives of people experiencing mental health issues ...

A life prisoner has failed in an action for damages against the Scottish ministers after a Parole Board document intended for him was mistakenly delivered to another prisoner with the same surname. Sh ...

Council of Europe human rights commissioner Dr Michael O’Flaherty has warned of the scale of poverty in Scotland, saying one ...

A drug dealer jailed for 10 years has been ordered to pay back almost £190,000 under proceeds of crime laws. Steven Gribble, 44, was sentenced at the High Court at Glasgow in June 2024 after pleading ...

Addleshaw Goddard (AG), which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, has reported another year of strong growth in ...

A disciplinary tribunal chaired by Lord Drummond Young has allowed an appeal by Andrew Smith KC and set aside two previous ...

Cocaine worth up to $15 million stored as evidence at Fiji’s Suva High Court has been replaced with flour, with police ...

A drug dealer jailed for four years and three months has been ordered to pay back more than £300,000 under proceeds of crime laws. Russell Smith, 42, was sentenced at the High Court at Glasgow in ...

Scottish Legal News is marking the retirement of Jeff Anderson, its long-serving advertising manager, who is stepping down ...