The vaults of the Antwerp Diamond Centre were thought to be impregnable until, on February 15, 2003, a gang of professional thieves made off with a haul of diamonds worth over £100 million – none have ever been recovered. Patient planning and stunning ingenuity allowed the gang to loot h
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Police Scotland has run internal training courses to support officers with reading, writing, statement-taking and everyday speech, prompting concerns about the calibre of new recruits. A freedom of information request by The Herald confirmed the training was delivered in collaboration with SEMPER Sc
The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) will launch its next manifesto on 6 September. The document serves as a roadmap to achieve the changes sought by young people across the country over the next five years, with the next edition to be launched at the upcoming sitting, SYP’s annual gathering fo
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
When Jamila Archibald was named the Law Society of Scotland’s In-House Rising Star earlier this year, then-president Susan Murray was glowing in her endorsement. Ms Archibald had, she said, impressed the judges not just with her ability to “deal with cross-jurisdictional legal queries wh
The Law Society of Scotland is to establish a new committee to oversee its international work. The committee will advise on international activities, including the society’s relations with EU institutions and other bars and law societies around the globe, as well as raising awareness about the
The Appeal Court of the High Court of Justiciary is to become the first criminal court in Scotland with a regular livestreaming service, allowing hearings to be viewed online by the public. Solemn (jury) criminal appeals will be livestreamed from 29 August, improving access, openness, and transparen
AI has become a topic that some people in business simply do not want to talk about, do not want to read about, and don’t really want to understand until it all feels like it has “settled down” a bit. For that reason, the ongoing legal action from Disney and Universal against AI pl
A federal judge has ordered the closure of Donald Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention camp in Florida, ruling that the facility is causing severe and irreparable damage to the Everglades. US district judge Kathleen Williams issued an 82-page ruling banning new detain
The United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls has called for all member states to ban surrogacy. Reem Alsalem has published a new report calling for states to move towards the total prohibition of surrogacy in all forms, while also raising significant concerns about the p
Health experts have called for new regulations after a family-friendly restaurant accidentally served cannabis-infused pizza to nearly 100 customers. A "mass intoxication event" took place at Famous Yeti's Pizza in Wisconsin in October 2024, according to a paper recently published in a US health jou
Yesterday marked four years since the Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Act 2021 came into force. The legislation, brought forward by Labour MSP Daniel Johnson and backed by the SRC, Trades Union, and retailers, aimed to start tackling the abuse many sho
The UK government is planning a major shake-up of the asylum appeals system in a bid to reduce the number of migrants being housed in hotels while they await rulings. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said she would establish a new body staffed by independent adjudicators to address what she called &ldqu
