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Police in India recovered jewellery worth around ₹400,000 (£3,087) after CCTV footage showed that the suspected thief was a stray dog. Lata Bai, a woman from Kayampur, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, reported that a bag containing gold and silver jewellery, around ₹2,000 in cash and food h

Meta will restrict how children use Instagram and Facebook during school hours and at night as part of an $18bn (£13.2bn) settlement over claims that it deliberately made its apps addictive for teenagers.

The family of Scottish solicitor and Law Society of Scotland Council member Lauren Fowler has donated £3,000 to the Lawscot Foundation in her honour after she passed away in May 2025. The donation will fund one of the Foundation’s scholars for a year of their legal studies, providing the

Regulatory judge Lord Ericht visited the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) to meet its independent advisory panel and hear about its plans for implementing the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 as well as the work which it will be doing to engage with consumer interests. The

Double silk Aidan O’Neill KC has been named Lawyer of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards 2026, sponsored by the Law Society of Scotland, recognising an outstanding legal career spanning almost four decades in some of the most complex areas of public and constitutional law. Of particular not

A Libyan man acquitted over the Lockerbie bombing has died at the age of 70, more than 35 years after the attack that killed 270 people. Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah was tried alongside Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi over the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. While Megrahi was convicted o

An attacker who struck a lone woman with a van, dragged her towards it and strangled her has been convicted. Safiya Anna Haverty, 28, formerly known as Sean Haverty, struck the victim with a van on Micheldever Road near Andover in Hampshire on 2 March, before dragging her towards the vehicle and str

The Law Society of Scotland has released updated Guidance for conveyancing solicitors around the use of letters of obligation and advance notices. It is the first time the guidance has been updated since relevant sections of the Land Registration etc (Scotland) Act 2012 came into force in December 2

Two men named Dan Sullivan are competing in Alaska’s Senate race, but only one has secured the endorsement of another politician – who is also named Dan Sullivan. Sen Dan S Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, was endorsed by former Anchorage mayor Dan A Sullivan last week ahead of Novemb

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has appointed Keith Bishop as a legal director in its Edinburgh construction team. A highly experienced construction lawyer, Mr Bishop is dual-qualified in Scotland and England and Wales, and has advised on both contentious and transactional construction matters throughou

Lecturers at Edinburgh Law School have been awarded funding by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research for their research project examining live facial recognition governance. Dr Lachlan Urquhart, senior lecturer in technology law and human-computer interaction at Edinburgh Law School, and Dr D

A father and son who failed in an attempt to smuggle more than £900,000 worth of cannabis into Scotland from East Asia have been sentenced. Stephen Harding, 67, and his son Bradley, 37, were stopped at Glasgow Airport by Border Force officers after arriving on a British Airways flight from Hea

Gilson Gray has successfully concluded a landmark two-year international football employment dispute on behalf of former Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club technical director, Rene Hiddink. Led by David Winnie, partner and head of sport at the firm, the case is believed to be the first successful cla

Dr Eleanor Russell has been appointed as an honorary professor of law at Robert Gordon University. Dr Russell is a qualified solicitor and practised as such before entering academia in 1994.  She has over 30 years’ experience as a legal academic. She has acted as an external examiner at f

A US judge has identified what appears to be the first attempt by a plaintiff to hide instructions in a court filing designed to manipulate an AI system reviewing the document. Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr said Matthew Elliott used text formatted in tiny white type on a white background to ins