Hundreds of US military lawyers are set to be made into immigration judges as the Trump administration seeks to fast-track mass deportations. The Department of Defense (DOD) – which is set to be rebranded as the Department of War – is seeking to identify up to 600 attorneys to serve as t
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The Law Society of Scotland has announced it will defer work on regulating new non-solicitor owned legal businesses for two years. It said this will allow it to focus on the "required significant changes" to improve the current complaints system for the benefit of consumers of legal services, and to
The Scottish government aims to protect marine biodiversity and conserve the marine ecosystem. Under new rules, the Offshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Order 2025, the use of specified fishing gear would be restricted across the whole of five protected areas and would be res
Services helping women affected by drugs and preventing substance use by young people are to benefit from more than £2 million funding. Minister for drugs policy Maree Todd announced the support during a statement to the Scottish Parliament on the National Records of Scotland latest statistics
A lawyer who shares his name with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is suing the social media platform for repeatedly deactivating his account. In eight years, Mark Steven Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer in Indianapolis, has seen his official Facebook page suspended five times and his personal profil
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Anti-pickpocket activists in Venice have found themselves reported to the police for stalking and unauthorised filming of alleged pickpockets. A crime wave in the tourist hotspot has prompted calls for a crackdown by police – as well as the appearance of activist groups who follow and film sus
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
A legal case against Celtic brought by victims of historical sexual abuse has concluded with settlements totalling more than £1 million. The payout has been shared among 24 former Celtic Boys Club players, while three cases will continue individually. Settlement terms have not been disclosed,
There is a crucial lack of pace and breadth in Scotland’s land reform strategies according to a new coalition of organisations representing community groups, environmental bodies and land reformers from across the country. As the Parliament returns after summer recess, and with stage three of
The owner of warehouse premises in Glasgow has successfully appealed to the Sheriff Appeal Court over a sheriff’s award of just over £147,700 in damages after he failed to repair the building’s roof under a commercial lease obligation, but only to the extent of reducing the award b
Perhaps the Baltic states, those around the sea there, in recent decades have not been given as full attention as they ought to have. International politics have now changed everything. The core arguments by Oliver Moody are, first, that these states have been forced to develop the kind of resilienc
The annual Red Mass to mark the beginning of the new legal year in Scotland takes place on Sunday, 21 September at noon. The mass will be celebrated in St Mary’s R.C. Cathedral, Broughton Street, Edinburgh and the principal celebrant will be the Most Reverend Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St Andr
Fourteen new King’s Counsel have been appointed by His Majesty The King on the recommendation of First Minister John Swinney. They are:
Cameron Wong McDermott (lecturer in social change, University of Glasgow) and Nicole Marshall (GO Justice Centre manager) write about the university's collaboration with The Marie Trust. At the Glasgow Open Justice Centre (GO Justice), part of the University of Glasgow’s School of Law, w
