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A five-year-old has been handed an invoice and his parents threatened with court action - for missing his friend's birthday party. According to the local Plymouth Herald newspaper, Derek Nash and his partner discovered the £15.95 "no show fee" invoice after it was slipped into their son Alex's scho

A newly-named body has been established for advocates who specialise in criminal law – the Scottish Criminal Bar Association. The title has been changed from the Faculty of Advocates’ Criminal Bar Association (FACBA), and Thomas Ross has been chosen as president.

A NASCAR driver known as “The Outlaw” has testified in a court that his girlfriend who is seeking a no-contact order against him is a trained assassin. Kurt Busch, 36, said his former girlfriend Patricia Driscoll was a secret agent who had operated in South America and Africa.

A former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found himself in court after he robbed a Manhattan bank in the service of “art”. Joseph Gibbons, 61, a filmmaker and artist was charged on Friday with robbery after he allegedly stole $1,000 from a bank in Chinatown.

International law firm Kennedys has opened in Scotland with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, giving it a presence in all jurisdictions in the UK and Ireland. The firm has recruited two Scottish solicitors: Frank Gill (pictured) and Rory Jackson.

A man has avoided jail by using his trainers as bail bond in lieu of money. Judge Douglas Stoddart at a district court in Massachusetts accepted the deposit after he offered Jason Duval, who was charged with drug offences, the opportunity to “be creative”.

An English judge has rebuked a claimant who she found was being coached through a pair of smart glasses while giving evidence. Laimonas Jakštys was asked to remove the glasses during proceedings before an Insolvency and Companies Court (ICC) judge in the High Court in London.

Susie Lind, partner in the Edinburgh office of international law firm CMS, has been appointed as chair of Scottish Renewables. Ms Lind – who joined the law firm last November – succeeds Adam Morrison, the UK country manager for Ocean Winds, who served in the role from 2021.

AI’s rapid advance could transform – or even eclipse – core aspects of legal and dispute resolution work, warns John Sturrock KC. The founder of a site where AI models communicate with one another compared them to a “new species that is on planet Earth that is now smarter tha

As AI enters complaints handling, gains in speed and insight must be balanced against fairness, transparency and the human touch, writes Vicky Crichton. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how organisations interact with the people they serve. That’s certainly true in the world of com

BTO has welcomed Donna Strong as a new partner in the firm’s real estate team, based in its Glasgow office. This senior hire follows the appointment of partner John Dunlop in the firm’s Edinburgh office last year, further strengthening BTO’s growing real estate capability.

When people and clients talk of the importance of lawyers who bring shop floor experience to their work, they do not come much truer than those of Qasim Ali. Growing up working in his parents’ convenience store in central Scotland means he understands the dedication that it takes to run a succ

There is to be a statutory public inquiry examining Scotland’s response to group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) chaired by Professor Alexis Jay. In a statement to Holyrood, Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth confirmed the Scottish government’s intention to establish a ta

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million for children's privacy failures. It said the online platform had failed to apply a robust age assurance mechanism to prevent under-13s from creating accounts.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has ordered the removal of a man convicted of threatening and abusive behaviour towards an 11-year-old boy from the sex offenders’ register after determining that his behaviour was motivated by racism, but refused a conjoined challenge to placement on the register by a