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Several Sheriffs contacted SLN recently to report that they were not receiving their daily Scottish Legal News newsletter. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has investigated and found that security filters had wrongly identified SLN as "spam". SCTS has now made the necessary adjustmen

The number of daily subscribers to Scottish Legal News has exceeded 17,000 for the first time after more than 1,700 new subscribers signed up to our free daily newsletter in the last year. Established in 2008, SLN has steadily grown over the last 15 years to attain saturation circulation in Scotland

Dear Editor, I read the article by Laura McClinton Dress codes in the workplace – a fashion faux pas or a necessity? with interest.

Scottish Legal News continued its successful start to the year with 262 new subscribers to the free daily newsletter taking its readership to 14,433. Twitter followers reached 12,000 for the first time with an additional 60 readers signing up while SLN's LinkedIn page attracted 124 new follower

One hundred and forty-seven new subscribers last month signed up to the free daily Scottish Legal News newsletter taking the publication through to 14,009 – passing the 14,000 milestone for the first time since its launch in 2008. SLN’s social media presence was also strengthened with Tw

The October circulation figures for Scottish Legal News are just in and reveal more steady progress with 120 new subscribers to the free daily newsletter taking the total to just over 13,500 and 235 new followers on LinkedIn. Unique users on the website were up a thousand to just shy of 70,000. Ther

The latest available figures for Scottish Legal News show continued growth for SLN with a surge of new users of the www.scottishlegal.com website. Subscribers to the free daily newsletter increased by 144 to 13,420. Twitter followers increased by 145 to 10,838 and LinkedIn increased by 212 followers

Law student Kate Scarborough has completed her internship with Scottish Legal News. Miss Scarborough, who begins the diploma at Dundee University next week, said she had "thoroughly enjoyed" her time working at SLN this summer and was "sad to be at the end of it".

What would the Kindly Tenants of Lochmaben make of it all? Our survey to find Scotland’s favourite Scots law expression has turned into the biggest bourach since the violation of the sepulchres after our well-read readers engaged in spirited Twitter discussions that highlighted even more wond

From the well-known like the Moorov doctrine and hamesucken to the obscure like stouthrief, Scots law is replete with distinctive phrases and expressions. And with the interest in the Scots language currently on the rise, we thought we would ask Scotland's lawyers to engage in a little lockdown levi

As we enter the darkest days we have faced since World War Two, the thoughts of the team at Scottish Legal News are with our readers and their families – but also with the many law firms which have only recently recovered from the crash of 2008 and its consequences. They now face an even great

Dear Editor, As a (non-legal) retired newspaper journalist with a deep interest in the Scottish courts from my early days, I find the Scottish Legal News bulletin a superb way of keeping up to date with developments, cases, appeals and other news – much of which is, sadly, never reported today

Kate Scarborough, a final year Scots and English law student at the University of Dundee, has been selected for this year’s paid traineeship at Scottish Legal News. Kate, from Crieff, graduates in June and is active in the university's mooting society. This year she is also part of the Sc

Scottish Legal News managing editor Graham Ogilvy is to speak to the University of Abertay Law Society on March 25. He said: “We are always pleased to talk to students about SLN, the media and the law in the digital age.

Scottish Legal News is very pleased to welcome legal journalist Margaret Taylor as a contributor. Margaret previously worked for The Lawyer in London and as a business correspondent for The Herald. She has now gone freelance and will be contributing a regular Lawyer of the Month piece as well as an