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The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The legislation aims to improve the system by which transgender people can apply for legal recognition through a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, in consultation with the chief medical officer, Police Scotland and National Records Scotland, has issued updated guidance on the reporting of Covid-19 related deaths. Having kept matters under regular review, it is no longer necessary to report to the procurator fisca

December has been a busy month for the Burness Paull Foundation, with the firm’s annual Christmas appeal raising money for food and fuel banks across Scotland. Donations totalling £4,730 were made to the Cyrenians in Aberdeen, the Trussell Trust in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the Fuel Ban

For the first time, Parole Board rules will specify the failure to disclose the location of a victim’s body as a matter which can be taken into account when deciding a person’s release from prison. The move is one of a number of planned rule changes laid before Parliament yesterday, whic

One of the parties charged with, but later acquitted of, fraud in connection with an allegedly fraudulent scheme to acquire Rangers Football Club in 2011 has lost a reclaiming motion challenging the decision of the Lord Ordinary to refuse claims for damages against the Lord Advocate and the Chief Co

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The UK scheme to settle millions of EU citizens is unlawful, the High Court has ruled.

A former Argentinian police officer who tortured and killed a left-wing student during Argentina's military dictatorship in the 1970s has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. Mario Sandoval, 69, was convicted by a court in Buenos Aires of involvement in the 1976 kidnapping and killing of Hern&a

The failure to make full use of Scotland's only open prison has been criticised in a new report. HMP Castle Huntly, in Longforgan near Dundee, is able to house 285 inmates – but had only 100 at its last inspection.

The case of two fans of actress Ana de Armas who are suing a film studio for removing her from the film Yesterday has reached the next stage. Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza accused Universal Studios of false representation and fraud at the beginning of this year after they paid $3.99 to rent t

A solicitor who embezzled £7,000 from his firm by misappropriating professional fees has been jailed for ten months. Leo McGarvey, 54, embezzled the sum from RGM Solicitors in Grangemouth between 2011 and 2017.

Three former solicitors are among five men convicted of money laundering, The Times reports. Former lawyers Iain Robertson, 69, David Lyons, 71 and Alistair Blackwood, 68, were convicted alongside Mohammed Aziz, 61, and Robert Ferguson, 67, following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

The proprietors of a country house and estate near Stirling have lost an appeal against a decision to amend a core path through a Scottish national park to allow the public access through land surrounding their estate. The petitioners, a charity which owned Gartmore House and the surrounding Gartmor

Scottish government plans to bring forward new legislation to reform and modernise the regulation of legal services are good news for consumers and the Scottish legal sector, the Law Society has said. Scottish ministers today published their formal response to last year’s consultation on updat

Aligning legislation, introducing a two-tier system of application costs and greater mental health support form the substance of a report by MPs on firearms licensing. The Scottish Affairs committee has today set out a number of areas that can potentially save costs, streamline rules and mitigate me