Two men in Ireland have announced that they intend to marry each other, even though they are both heterosexual, reports the BBC. 

New private tenancy laws are now in force that the Government says will give tenants more security and stability whilst also providing better safeguards for landlords, lenders and investors. 

We would like to raise awareness to a fraud that has recently come up where fraudsters are currently hacking into email chains between house buyers or sellers and their solicitors and diverting house purchase payments. The fraud involves the monitoring of email communications between purchaser or seller and solicitor using malware that looks for key words such as ‘house purchase’, ‘deposit’, ‘buy’ and ‘payment’ – and then they make their move.

In the second part of her article on the utility of standard missives published in The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, Debra Clapham offers some practical suggestions on how to improve the house transaction process for solicitors and clients alike.

A 65-year-old man has appeared in court in Edinburgh after admitting he forged a relative’s signature on a fake will, reports the Evening News.