Rogue police officers should be subject to criminal proceedings, a watchdog has said. The chief inspector of constabulary in ...

Missouri has executed a convicted murderer who maintained his innocence for more than two decades, despite last-minute ...

Several people have been arrested in Switzerland, known for its liberal laws on assisted dying, in connection with a woman's ...

Blackadders LLP is celebrating after paralegal Nikki Scott was named Paralegal of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards last ...

Crates of bananas delivered to a discount supermarket chain were found to contain €7 million worth of cocaine. The drugs – 95 ...

Legislative proposals to help reduce the number of domestic homicides and suicides in Scotland have been published at ...

Barristers are demanding a 15 per cent rise in pay to match settlements secured by other public sector workers. They also want the UK government to establish an independent pay review body to try and ...

The High Court of Justiciary has added three years to the sentence of a 27-year-old man convicted of four charges of rape against two former partners after a Crown appeal against his sentence. Respond ...

Aberdein Considine trainee Sophie Reid gives us the scoop on what no one tells you about being a trainee. See part one of her ...

Writing in Scottish Legal News today, Colombian researcher Rodrigo Rogelis discusses a 2016 ruling that confers legal rights ...

Every community in Scotland is to have local police officers, the chief constable has promised. Jo Farrell outlined the plan ...

The Lord President, Lord Carloway, introduced the opening of the legal year at a ceremony yesterday in Court 1 at Parliament ...