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A third of courthouses in England and Wales have been closed in the past decade and sold to raise up to £250 million, new research indicates. The number of courts fell from 923 in 2010 to 628 by the end of 2019, The Times reports.

A Scots law student is set to spend the summer working with a death row project in America. Iain Mathieson, who graduated from Dundee University in 2018, will be working with the Arizona Capital Representation Project as a caseworker, assisting the organisation in its death penalty litigation work.

An item of jewellery has become the bane of a police force after it appealed for help in finding its "rightful owner". The item in question is a replica of the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings.

Ronald Conway responds to Michael Upton's recent reflections on Brexit. So John Cleese famously asked in The Life of Brian.

A right-wing extremist convicted of downloading “sinister, violent and disturbing” terrorist material has had an appeal against his prison sentence dismissed. David Dudgeon was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, reduced from a period of three years, after pleading guilty to

Plans to open civil partnerships to different-sex couples have drawbacks, but those might be a blessing in the long run, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. In a submission to the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee, the Faculty said the Civil Partnership (Scotland)

A teenage trio who murdered a vulnerable pensioner have been sentenced to life imprisonment at the High Court in Edinburgh. Keirin McMillan or Elliott, who was 19 at the time of the offence, and two boys aged 16 and 17 were convicted in November of last year of the murder and robbery of Alasdair McP

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has joined calls for an urgent government response to a new report detailing serious concerns about practices in Scotland’s prisons and police custody facilities. The report from the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) fo

Stirling solicitor Ken Dalling has today been confirmed as the Law Society of Scotland president for 2021-22. Mr Dalling will be appointed as the Law Society’s vice president on 31 May 2020 before taking up the reins as president next year. He was first elected as a Law Society Council me

Aneta Hologa has joined Munro & Noble's financial services team. Mary Nimmo, partner, said: “Munro and Noble are reporting increased demand in 2020 for our financial services advice, and as such we are delighted to announce the expansion of the Munro & Noble financial team.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. France: Stun grenade blamed for maiming dozens of Yellow Vests banned | The Telegraph

A suspected phone thief has been arrested after police allegedly found more than 30 mobile phones in his cycle shorts. Police recovered the phones after blocking the exits at a rock concert when dozens of people reported lost phones.

A global infrastructure survey by Pinsent Masons has revealed that there is still a lack of understanding of technology across the sector, which is prohibiting change. The research, which explored the digital transformation of the infrastructure sector, found that 64 per cent of respondents said tha

So Brexit is done. My mother still recalls the news on 19 April 1945, sixteen days before the war’s end, that Germans had executed her grandfather in prison in Copenhagen for membership of the Danish Resistance. His daughter and son-in-law, my Danish grandparents, had themselves not long befor

Levy & McRae is to seek leave to appeal a decision which has significant implications for the way the profession bills clients. The firm announced the move following the decision in a case raised by former client Robert Kidd. The firm successfully acted for Mr Kidd and his business in a damages