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Widespread misreporting on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is fuelling calls for the UK to withdraw from the treaty, researchers have found. A new report from the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, based in Oxford University’s Faculty of Law, examined how the ECHR is represente
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A sheriff has made a joint residence order in respect of a four-year-old child due to start primary school contrary to the views of a child welfare reporter and the child herself after finding that the reporter’s conclusions failed to give adequate weight to the position of the pursuer. Pursue
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A prisoner serving an extended sentence who claimed that his human rights were breached due to the Scottish ministers not affording him rehabilitative opportunities as to allow him to be released on licence has lost a judicial review challenge Petitioner AB, who was convicted of offences under the S
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Prosecutors are investigating the death of a young woman seven years after she contracted a hospital-acquired infection while undergoing treatment as a teenager. Molly Cuddihy, 23, died on Tuesday at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow. She had previously described to the Scott
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A contractor has been awarded just over £558,000 in damages after a lord ordinary determined that he was wrongfully interdicted by a housebuilding company which was prosecuted for health and safety offences after interdicting the pursuer from repeating allegations about the presence of asbesto
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An Amazon courier who attacked an Edinburgh traffic warden with a knife after receiving a parking ticket has had the length of his prison sentence more than doubled in length after an appeal by the Crown against his sentence was allowed by the High Court of Justiciary. Respondent Eamonn Gallagher pl
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Dear Editor, Sheriff Principal Abercrombie’s review of the fatal accident system is to be welcomed. In my view, there are aspects of the system which cry out for such a review. The main problem, as I see it, is delay for which, sometimes, there is no explanation.
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A Law Society of Scotland review of law firm websites has revealed that less than a third included information about pricing. A total of 109 out of the 381 legal firms across Scotland which were included in the review sample had pricing information available on their website in line with Law Society
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The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has refused an appeal by HMRC against a decision that workers at a poultry farming company did not require to be paid the National Minimum Wage for their travel time after finding that the Employment Tribunal had erred in its assessment of what constituted &l
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ScottishPower's top lawyer, Marion Venman, has been appointed to the Glasgow School of Art's board of governors. Ms Venman was one of four new members welcomed to the board of governors last month, alongside Dr Catriona Campbell MBE, Sarah Lavers and Jane Morrison-Ross.
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Retail trade union Usdaw is concerned by the continued growing trend of shoplifting incidents in Scotland, which have more than doubled since the pandemic, alongside a persistent decline in police ‘clear-up’ rates for the offence. The union welcomes that the protection of retail workers
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It’s not many lawyers that get to work on a high-profile, ground-breaking Supreme Court case just a year after qualifying, but Balfour & Manson solicitor Lindsay McCosh is one of them. As part of a public law team led by partner Sindi Mules, Ms McCosh acted for For Women Scotland in their
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The Court of Session has ruled on two petitioners for the extension of interim orders affecting two registered nurses alleged to have acted against the interests of the profession in favour of imposing new interim orders with less restrictive conditions. The Nursing and Midwifery Council raised two
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Mark Farmer, the leading UK construction industry expert, has been announced as the keynote speaker of this year’s Scottish Construction Summit, the inaugural event from SLN's sister publication Scottish Construction Now to be held in Glasgow on September 17. Mr Farmer has over 30 years of exp
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A Turkish national due to be deported from the UK following a criminal conviction has lost a legal challenge against a decision of the Home Secretary that he had no right to a fresh appeal based on his marriage to a Lithuanian national after the refusal of his first claim. Veysel Erturk, aged 23, wa
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