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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”.

LawCare, the mental health charity for the legal sector, has welcomed Mark Evans as its new chief executive. He joins as the charity approaches its 30th anniversary and looks to reach more people across the legal sector and help make working in law healthier.

Anderson Strathern Asset Management (ASAM) has made its first senior appointment under managing director Arlene Ewing's plans to grow the firm's team and services across Scotland. Jamie Daniels joins the team as senior investment director, bringing 20 years' experience managing investment portfolios

Under-18s will no longer be able to buy nicotine or herbal smoking products in Scotland, under new legislation which has come into force. The ban to protect children and young people from the harms of nicotine addiction extends the protections in age-of-sale rules to all nicotine products, including

Our autumn holiday to the Riviera in search of a week of sunshine has ended with a bang, several, in fact. Our pre-prandial drinks on a café terrace off Jean Medicin, Nice’s main shopping boulevard, are interrupted by the firing of rockets at the CRS, the much-detested French riot polic

The Scottish Land Commission has welcomed Megan MacInnes as its new head of practice and advice. Ms MacInnes joins the commission at an important time for land reform in Scotland, with the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 bringing a renewed focus on responsible land ownership and the role of communit

A future trainee solicitor from Edinburgh would not have been able to join the profession without the support of the Lawscot Foundation, he told students, alumni and supporters at an event marking the charity's 10th anniversary. Held at Parliament Hall on Tuesday, the Lawscot Foundation marked a dec

2025 was a difficult year for any solicitor with farming clients, if I may be bold enough to appoint myself temporary spokesperson for such a group, writes Catherine Bury. The surprise changes to inheritance tax reliefs applying to agricultural property were enough to provoke the conversations Micro

The handling of a solicitor complaint has raised questions about undisclosed evidence, investigator accountability and the independence of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission’s decision-making process, writes Mohammed Sabir. Complaints against solicitors are inevitable. The important ques