The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been asked to issue arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds. Prosecutor Karim Khan KC ...

An Aberdeen-based haulage company has been fined £241,875 for failures that led to the tragic death of a motorist. Colin Lawson Transport Limited (CLT) pled guilty to failing to ensure that the loads ...

An Inverness GP who sought reduction of a sheriff’s determination that the death of a young child may have been avoided had she referred her to a paediatric unit in 2019 has had a judicial review ...

The bill introduces some important new steps to increase transparency, widen ownership opportunities, and regulate large land holdings in the public interest, including: Requiring greater transparency ...

As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syria’s Assad regime, the future of women’s rights remains precarious. Rights group accuses Congo’s ...

All Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service buildings in the red weather warning area are closed today. The warning for wind has been issued by the Met Office for Dumfries and Galloway, the Borders, all ...

‘County lines’ is a sub-genre, but not a lesser one, of the lucrative business involving controlled drugs. It is constituted by goods being moved from across police and other domestic boundaries. The ...

An incredibly talented employee at the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has made lord justice general and lord justice-clerk teddy bears as gifts for Lord Carloway and Lady Dorrian, both of whom ...

DWF, which has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, advised on 200 deals in 2024, with a combined deal value of more than £5 billion. In deal value terms, TMT transactions stood out as the highest value ...

Caoimhe Hunter Blair, a solicitor at Brodies LLP, has been appointed to the 2025 Next Generation Media Lawyers Committee. A solicitor in the regulation, government, and compliance team at Brodies LLP, ...

Gillian Smith becomes a senior associate within the private client department, Cameron Milne is elevated to the role of senior solicitor within the commercial department, and Jackie Cocker has been ...

Macdonald Henderson has advised Glasgow-based financial advice firm Verum Wealth on its sale to UK national firm Foster Denovo. The addition of Verum Wealth marks FD’s seventh acquisition in just over ...