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Millions of people involved in running UK businesses will be required to verify their identity with Companies House from the middle of November, writes Gary Gray. The identity verification requirements form part of a suite of strengthened corporate governance and transparency measures being implemen

A man who defrauded businesses out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been sentenced to five years in prison following a prosecution by the Crown Office. Barry Mackland was found guilty by a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh of defrauding three agricultural firms in a swindle worth £630,

On 8 August a Court of Session commercial judge refused to make a first order in a petition to wind up a company, declining to authorise its intimation and service. Instead the judge granted the respondents’ motion to dismiss the petition. The company had lodged a caveat and appeared by counse

A convicted murderer has lost an appeal against the 22-year length of the punishment part of his life sentence in which he argued that such a long period was not justified because the murder was committed spontaneously rather than being premeditated. Appellant John Farquhar, 59, pled guilty to the m

Scotland has never quite had an artist like John Bellany, and probably never will again. Correction: delete ‘probably’. His work has had a force and an impact which few of his generation could replicate, and he was so doggedly sui generis that we must hesitate to classify him as simply S

Allan Pinkerton (born Glasgow 1819 – died Chicago 1884) has a complex legacy. Some recall with pride that the Scot was the founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. In short, Pinkerton pioneered the enforcement of law and order on the American frontier, upheld principles of gender eq

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a discretionary fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of James Forbes. Mr Forbes, 37, died on 15 January 2024 after a fall from height. He had been abducted and held against his will at a flat in Elphinstone Court, Aberd

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. China urged to protect imprisoned activists facing human rights violations

Alex Robertson, an associate in Allan McDougall Solicitors’ personal injury team, has recently been certified by the Law Society of Scotland as a trauma-informed lawyer. The Law Society's trauma-informed lawyer certification programme was developed to equip lawyers with the necessary skills an

The US Justice Department has sacked a staff member who allegedly threw a Subway sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer. Sean Charles Dunn, 37, was fired yesterday after the incident, which follows the Trump administration's controversial deployment of federal law enforcement agencies in home

The Crown Office has decided not to proceed with the prosecution of a 74-year-old woman who was arrested earlier this year for holding a sign outside Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth II Hospital campus that read: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” Rose Docherty wa

An appeal against the decision of an arbitrator that a notice of expulsion sent by a partnership to one of the partners was invalid due to not being sent within a reasonable timeframe has been refused by the Court of Session after it ruled that the arbitrator had not acted irregularly in making that

The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill, aimed at reforming the law relating to 'large landholdings' and leases of rural land, has progressed to its final stage in the Scottish Parliament, following significant amendments during the stage two process, writes Rona Macdonald. Over 500 amendments were submitte

The Trump administration has rewritten and reduced the scope of the US government’s annual report on global human rights abuses, prompting accusations it has compromised the document’s credibility for political ends. The report, historically regarded as one of the most comprehensive gove