Cyclists are often thought of as vulnerable road users, but on occasion, they can injure or even kill the more vulnerable, writes Thomas Mitchell. Readers may remember the much-publicised case of Charlie Alliston who collided with Kim Briggs as she crossed Old Street in London. Charlie was riding a
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A man detained after trailing US troops with a speaker playing Darth Vader's iconic theme tune has filed a lawsuit over his treatment. Washington DC man Sam O'Hara staged the creative process after President Trump controversially deployed the National Guard to the city.
A former police constable has been awarded £210,000 in damages after a personal injury sheriff ruled that Authorised Firearms Officers ought to have been deployed to an incident in Inverness in which he suffered injuries from an individual who had run away from the police earlier in the day. M
Israel is obliged to allow aid to flow into the Gaza Strip, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled. The UN's top court has handed down a detailed advisory opinion on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) following a request from the UN General Assembly.
A judge has acquitted 'Soldier F', the former British soldier accused of murder and attempted murder in connection with the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. Soldier F was prosecuted for the murder of James Wray and William McKinney and for the attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon,
Lord Sales has been appointed as the next deputy president of the Supreme Court. He will succeed Lord Hodge, who is retiring at the end of December, and will take the post up in January 2026.
A teenage boy whose sex was mistakenly recorded on his birth certificate as female has been told he can only join girls' sports teams at his US school. The Laker family in Mesa, Arizona told ABC15 that their 14-year-old son was misidentified as female on his birth certificate as a result of a "cleri
A new report from the Scottish Land Commission shows how lessons from around the world could help Scotland modernise the way it values land and property. The research, carried out by WPI Economics, forms part of the commission’s ongoing work with the Scottish government to explore how tax can
Three people were wrongly accused of downloading child abuse images after a BT engineer’s wiring error caused police to trace illegal activity to the wrong address, a tribunal has heard. The mix-up, which took place in 2016, led to two men and a woman having their homes searched and electronic
The grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, are calling on ministers to grant her a posthumous pardon, arguing that she was a victim of domestic abuse. Ellis was executed in 1955 for the murder of her former partner, racing driver David Blakely, whom she had met two years
A property development company that alleged that a surveyor’s company instructed by the seller of a property it purchased had negligently failed to detect serious structural issues with the building has had its action dismissed after a sheriff found that its averments did not meet the standard
Rachel Reeves is preparing to unveil a £2 billion tax rise on lawyers, family doctors and accountants as part of plans to close a £30 billion gap in the public finances. The chancellor is expected to use her upcoming budget to impose a new levy on people who use limited liability partner
