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Jones Whyte has been named Scottish Top Employer of the Year at The Herald and s1jobs Top Employer Awards 2025.

Angela Grahame KC has been named a doctor of the university by Edinburgh Napier University (ENU). Since she was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1995, she has gone on prosecute major High Court cases, took silk in 2009, and become only the second women in nearly 500 years to be named vice-dea

Demand for commercial property in Scotland rose in the last quarter, driven by an uptick in the office subsector, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) commercial property monitor. But there are signs of some caution amidst rising uncertainty and fiscal tension.

Attorney General Lord Hermer has blamed the collapse of the Chinese spying prosecution on outdated espionage laws in the UK. He said that prosecutors had acted in good faith in attempting to secure convictions against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry – both of whom deny any wrongdoing &n

MSPs have voted to create a law obliging the owners of large landholdings to publish plans on how they will increase biodiversity, as part of the new Land Reform Bill – in what the Scottish Rewilding Alliance (SRA) said is a "big step towards a Rewilding Nation". The SRA has campaigned for the

A team of Greenpeace activists installed prison bars around three iconic statues in Parliament Square yesterday to highlight the government’s "apparent desire to cast protesters as criminals and terrorists". The activists imprisoned statues of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and the Suffragist

A police officer admitted to joining a remote court hearing with no trousers on after being questioned by an incredulous judge. Video footage from a district court in the US state of Michigan shows the police officer joining the Zoom hearing in his uniform, sans trousers.

An event being held next month will celebrate the life of Thomas Muir. Lenzie Academy, in East Dunbartonshire, is to host a symposium on the eighteenth-century Scottish champion of political democracy.

Our sister publication Irish Legal News is seeking views from Scots lawyers on the standard of proof which should be applied in disciplinary tribunals. Members of the Law Society of Northern Ireland last week forced a U-turn on its position that there was now a "consensus" that the civil standard (o

A Holyrood committee has backed another prisoner release scheme amid warnings of an “emergency situation” in Scotland’s prisons.

A multi-national company has been fined £176,000 for failing to prevent excessive smoke and noise pollution at the Mossmorran petrochemical plant in Fife. ExxonMobil Chemical Ltd pled guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to breaching pollution control regulations at the Cowdenbeath plant on vario

Gibson Kerr has welcomed Phil Bonnar as a senior associate in the family law team, Emma Kennie as a purchase & sale negotiator and appraiser in the property team, and Faye Lipton as a senior solicitor in the family law team. Briege Valentine has also been promoted to senior solicitor in the firm

A trio from Holmes Mackillop Solicitors is all set to raise funds for The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice by going on the run under cover of darkness at the John Muir Way Nocturnal Ultra Marathon on Saturday 8 November. The challenge is ‘simple’: runners have six hours to complete

The number of arrests and inspections targeting illegal workers in Scotland has risen sharply over the past year, with new Home Office figures showing a near 30 per cent increase. Between October 2024 and September 2025, Immigration Enforcement officers arrested more than 350 illegal workers and car

Pedestrians are to be fined for speeding if they walk or run faster than six kilometres per hour in Slovakia. The new speed limit was agreed in the Slovak parliament yesterday through an amendment to new road traffic legislation, according to Swiss website Bluewin.