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The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has appointed three new lay trustees to its board of trustees, including the Lord Lyon, Dr Joe Morrow CVO CBE KC. As a lay trustee, he will support the college to serve its 21,600 members and promote the voice of psychiatry in the UK and internationally t

Services supporting victims of domestic abuse should provide joined-up and consistent access to advice and information on financial support, according to MSPs. Holyrood’s Social Justice and Social Security Committee has released a new report that outlines how people who leave an abusive relati

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of 57-year-old Keith Munro. Mr Munro, also known as Keith Martin or Keith Jordan, died on 15 November 2022 at the Marie Curie Hospital, Edinburgh.

The UK needs “Australian-style” compulsory voting to combat the “disastrously low” voter turnout seen at the last general election, according to a new report. YouGov polling, commissioned for the report published by the Constitution Society, shows that a plurality of the publ

Police Scotland has been criticised for a “lack of pace” in addressing persistent issues affecting the care of detainees in custody centres, following the latest joint inspection by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) and Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS). The new rep

Simpson & Marwick is once again offering legal services to clients across Scotland following the appointment of a team of property and private client lawyers. The move re-establishes the firm’s solicitor credentials and sees it rejoin the ESPC.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has welcomed the First-tier Tribunal decision on the preliminary issue raised by TikTok in its appeal against the £12.7 million monetary penalty notice (MPN) issued in April 2023. The decision follows a hearing that took place from 19 to 21 May 2025.

Ness Gallagher Solicitors has raised £6,290 for St Andrew’s Hospice during this year’s Make a Will Month campaign – tripling the amount raised last year.

A lawyer who left a hurried note on another lawyer's car after "dinging" it was entering into a binding contract to pay them, a tribunal has ruled. Carly Peddle wrote and left a note which read "I dinged your back passenger door / happy to pay for!" after accidentally denting Richard Brooks' car doo

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Judges yesterday said there were reasonable grounds to suspect both men have committed the crime against humanity of persecution on gend

At least 13 people are thought to have taken their own lives as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, while at least 59 more contemplated suicide, according to the first report from the public inquiry into what has been described as the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service is now able to start exploring a new application programme interface (API) service for raising ordinary actions in the Sheriff Court and ASSPIC. The service allows for bulk submissions of initial writs and would benefit those that do high volume ordinary cau

Two men have been jailed for more than eight years after turning two Aberdeen flats into drug supply dens. Dean Alford, 31, and Rory Morgan, 32, used the rented properties in Esslemont Avenue and Granton Place to traffic drugs, including cocaine.

A report has praised an important protection for legal services consumers provided by the Law Society of Scotland.

Thousands of defendants could lose the automatic right to have their cases heard by a jury under sweeping reforms proposed by a senior judge aiming to ease the record backlog in the Crown Courts. Sir Brian Leveson, the former Court of Appeal judge who led the government-commissioned review, has prop