Shops across France have begun posting CCTV footage of alleged shoplifters on social media, telling those depicted that the images will be taken down if they reimburse the cost of the stolen items. Retailers say they have turned to the tactic "as a deterrent" amid a growing sense of frustration over
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A woman with hydrocephalus and spina bifida who had her level of care reassessed after moving to a new local authority area has lost a judicial review challenge against the approach taken by her new Council in assessing her required level of care after a lord ordinary ruled the authority had not act
Lawyers have accused the Scottish government of intentionally delaying action on legal aid until after next year's Holyrood election. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) said the profession was being treated with contempt as it confirmed it will escalate its boycott of the government's su
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The Inner House of the Court of Session has restored the decision of a children’s panel that determined that a father subject to an Order for Lifelong Restriction for repeatedly raping his child’s mother was not a relevant person obliged to attend a children’s hearing in respect of
Two men have been sentenced for breaches of Russian linked financial sanctions for the first time ever in the UK. Dmitrii Ovsyannikov, 48, and Alexei Ovsyannikov (AO), 47, have been found guilty of eight counts of breaching financial sanctions and two counts of money laundering and sentenced to at S
The judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers will be handed down in the Supreme Court next Wednesday. In this appeal, the appellant challenges the lawfulness of statutory guidance issued by the respondent, which has the effect that a GRC recognising that a person’s gender is
Scottish MPs have backed a call for the UK government to establish an independent public inquiry into the UK's involvement in the Gaza war. An open letter penned by Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader turned independent MP, has been signed by 30 other MPs and five Lords.
Revolut has been ordered by Lithuania's central bank to pay a €3.5 million fine for deficiencies in its anti-money laundering (AML) processes, its largest financial penalty to date. The Bank of Lithuania, which oversees Revolut's European banking operations alongside the European Central B
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has determined that changes to the UK’s ‘release on licence’ regime did not amount to the retroactive imposition of a heavier penalty such as to preclude the surrender of a man alleged to have committed terrorist offences in Norther
Four new partners are among 10 senior promotions that have taken effect at Lindsays. Six other lawyers have also taken the step up to director among a total of 15 promotions announced across the partnership’s offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Perth.
A commercial judge has refused to find prior to a proof that there had been unfairly prejudicial conduct against a minority shareholder in a property development company which claimed that it had been excluded from company business without good cause following a restructuring of the company’s
Glasgow sheriff rules £70,000 payment from father to son not a loan in dispute between their estates
A Glasgow sheriff has ruled that a £70,000 payment by a deceased father to his youngest son in 2009 was not a loan and did not impose a repayment obligation on the son, now also deceased, after an action was raised by his elder brother seeking repayment. Pursuers Jonathan Russell, the eldest s
Defence solicitors are to boycott the Scottish government’s new Summary Case Management scheme in protest over legal aid fees. In the face of the Scottish government’s continued refusal to engage in meaningful talks with the profession, the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) "has
There were 345 deaths in prison custody over the period 2012-13 to 2022-23, with the annual number of deaths generally increasing over this time, new statistics from Scotland's chief statistician show. The statistics should not be taken as indicative that the risk of death changes specifically becau
