The estate of former first minister Alex Salmond is seeking sequestration – the Scottish legal equivalent of bankruptcy – due to costs linked to court action. Salmond successfully sued the Scottish ...

The Scottish Information Commissioner is taking ministers to court after they missed a deadline to release documents.

John Swinney has pledged to publish the long-awaited Salmond Files before May’s Holyrood election, as Scotland’s Information Commissioner takes the unprecedented step of launching court action over ...

Scottish Information Commissioner David Hamilton says written evidence he requested by 15 January was not handed over.

Alex Salmond had debts of nearly £350,000 when he died suddenly last year. Official records show the former SNP First Minister only had assets worth £2,282, despite decades at the top of politics.

A government minister has refused to say when the documents in the ‘Salmond files’ will be publicly released ...

A journalist who was prosecuted and subsequently acquitted of a statutory offence of threatening and abusive behaviour after making a YouTube video about the outcome of the Alex Salmond trial has lost ...

The Scottish government has vowed to release the "Salmond files" but is refusing to set a date as it faces legal action over the delay.

Lawyers representing John Swinney's Government are arguing against the country's Information Commissioner.