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An environmental lawyer has been fined £5,000 after being found in contempt for leaking the UK Supreme Court's judgment in a case concerning the expansion of Heathrow Airport. Tim Crosland has become the first person to ever be tried and found in contempt by the Supreme Court.

Police officers have gone on strike over a shortage of trousers. Officers in El Puerto de Santa Maria in the south of Spain say they should have received new service trousers in 2016.

Former diplomat Craig Murray has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect the identities of complainers in the Alex Salmond trial. Mr Murray, 62, was found guilty last month of breaching the order in blog posts that attacked the decision to prosecute Mr Salmond on 14 counts of sexual as

The 'resilience fund' offered to criminal legal aid solicitors by the Scottish government is worth less than half of the money it has saved in legal aid payments over the pandemic as a result of the sharp decline in criminal business. The fund, of which only a fraction has been paid, is worth a tota

Benjamin Bestgen, the author of our jurisprudential primer series, reflects on a year of his articles – from their inception in far-flung New Zealand to their conclusion in besieged Jersey. Following Kapil Summan’s bonus primer, I am taking a look back at one full year of these little ju

A commercial landlord of industrial premises in Motherwell has been unsuccessful in its action against its former tenant for payments it alleged were due to it under a commercial lease between them. The pursuer, Rockford Trilogy Ltd, sought payment of rent, insurance, and service charges from&n

On this day, 200 years ago, the First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session, presided over by Lord President Charles Hope (Lord Granton), ancestor to Lord Hope of Craighead, gave its decision in Strang v McIntosh 1 S 1 – the first entry in Session Cases. Emma McLarty a

Pinsent Masons has launched an equality law specialism that supports businesses in managing the cultural and legal aspects of discrimination and inclusion issues. The new practice addresses a broader challenge facing organisations when equality issues arise, by identifying and tackling the root caus

Legislation to ban so-called conversion therapy for LGBT people in England and Wales will be brought to Westminster as soon as possible, the UK government has said. Conversion therapy is a practice or intervention which attempts to erase, repress, “cure” or change someone’s sexual

The University of Glasgow School of Law is hosting the Scotland event of the Independent Human Rights Act Review Roadshow next week. The Independent Human Rights Act Review (IHRAR), launched in December 2020 and has been established to examine the framework of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Scottish Water has been fined £6,700 at Dundee Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to an incident of water pollution in Fife in 2018. Approximately 400 litres of a chemical coagulant were discharged into the River Eden in October 2018 resulting in the death of at least 500 trout and salmo

MacRoberts is moving to Grade A offices at 10 George Street, Edinburgh, which have been designed with a focus on agile working and collaboration between people and clients. Neil Kennedy, managing partner, said: “The onset of the pandemic forced us to work remotely almost overnight. Whilst this

Brodies LLP has advised on a number of major international hotel deals in the last six months, worth in excess of £1 billion. In a landmark transaction, the firm represented hospitality giant Accor in the conclusion of long-term branding and management agreements for the Fairmont Lusail a

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

Fresh inquests into the 1971 killings known as the Ballymurphy massacre have concluded that all 10 victims were "entirely innocent of any wrongdoing" on the days they were killed. The 10 victims in five incidents over three days between 9–11 August 1971 were Father Hugh Mullan, Francis Quinn,