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Rights organisations could fall back on the UK-EU international dispute settlement procedure to defend human rights in Northern Ireland if the UK government wins in a major UK Supreme Court case, according to a new report. The report, published by Social Change Initiative (SCI) in partnership with t
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The Scottish Law Commission has today published its report on updating the law on the mental element in homicide including a draft Homicide (Scotland) Bill. The report notes criticisms which have been made of the current common-law-based Scots law governing murder and culpable homicide; refers to ho
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Ministers have been criticised by Scotland’s transparency watchdog for wrongly attempting to block a freedom of information (FOI) request on the lord advocate’s reference to the Supreme Court over an independence referendum. In a sharply worded ruling, David Hamilton, the information com
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A majority of a Scottish Parliament committee is unable to recommend the general principles of the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill be agreed to. The Health, Social Care and Sport committee has highlighted a series of concerns with the bill and said it will require significant amend
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A sheriff has reduced the price payable for an asbestos removal service after a business contracted by the owner of a derelict farm building but ordered the customer to pay the remaining outstanding amount after finding that the cleaning company had breached the requirement to exercise reasonable ca
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North Korean authorities have cracked down on the phrase "I love you" as evidence of a "decadent lifestyle". According to Daily NK, factory officials in Hamhung, North Korea's second largest city, publicly condemned a love letter which was discovered in a young worker's bag during a routine ins
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The Aberdeen Legal Walk will be held on Wednesday 8 October. Organised by the Robert Gordon University’s Grampian Community Law Centre, the walk will support and raise money for the Access to Justice Foundation.
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A convicted rapist prevented from voting in the UK's 2019 general election did not suffer a breach of his rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Chamber judgment in the case of Hora v. the United Kingdom, the court unanimously held that there had been no violati
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The Taliban has banned high-speed internet across much of northern Afghanistan in order to "prevent immoral activities". Fibre-optic internet access has been shut off in between five and 10 provinces, though slower mobile internet still works, according to Sky News.
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The independent legal support boat sailing to Gaza alongside the Global Sumud Flotilla has published its first legal updates. Irish lawyers Gemma McLoughlin-Burke BL and Leigh Brosnan BL, as well as English solicitor Alexander Hogg, are on board the vessel, which began its journey earlier this month
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A public consultation on a proposed safe drug consumption room in Edinburgh has been approved, with the city’s health board chair insisting the facility would save lives. The Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB) signed off the move on Monday. Officers will prepare the consultation for earl
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The English legal press had their knives out for the Law Society of Scotland this past week. This was on the back of its announcement of a deferral of at least a further two years (to add to the existing 15 years since the introduction of the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010) in bringing about alt
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