The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, is to meet bereaved families following delays in loved ones finding out causes of deaths. The 12-week turnaround times for the Crown Office to tell next of kin the causes of death has not been met in recent years.
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A police officer in Hollywood has been sacked after accidentally broadcasting the sound of him having sex while on duty at Universal Studios. Colleagues frantically tried to contact the officer, who has not been named, after the steamy encounter was picked up on a hot mic.
PRIME Commitment, the alliance of law firms across the UK and Ireland created to improve socioeconomic diversity within the legal profession, is marking its tenth anniversary with an online conference reflecting on its first decade, and looking ahead to further action law firms should take to improv
A Wick man has been fined for health and safety failings which left a worker with severe injuries. William Swanson, who traded as LTS Construction, pled guilty to a breach of working at height regulations at Wick Sheriff Court on 4 October 2021. He was fined £2,000
Ever-increasing interest in Scotland’s land is opening up the prospects of a win-win that benefits the nation and nature like never before, a major conference will hear today. Natural capital is the headline topic at the virtual three-day Land Connection 2021 conference, which brings experts t
Public spending on legal aid has dropped by £85 million over two decades, the Herald on Sunday reports. In 2007/8 the figure was £155 million while in 2019/20 it had fallen to £130.85m, a drop of £85m when accounting for inflation. Gross spending has declined by a further 23
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. ‘There’s cameras everywhere’: testimonies detail far-reaching surveillance of Uyghurs in China | Uyghurs | The Guardian
Shoosmiths has announced that three partners of the firm have been appointed to managerial roles within its operations. Janette Speed, real estate partner and previously head of Edinburgh has been officially named head of Scotland for Shoosmiths. She will assume overarching responsibility to spearhe
A new book by Professor Federico Fabbrini, director of Ireland's DCU Brexit Institute and full professor of EU law at the DCU School of Law and Government, provides the first comprehensive academic analysis of the new terms of EU-UK relations post-Brexit. Launched today, The Law & Politics of Br
The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber has ordered a Glasgow landlord to pay £2,400 to his former tenants after they applied to the tribunal for a Wrongful Termination Order. Lesley Munro and Grant McNicoll argued that they would not have left the property had they n
Shepherd and Wedderburn is continuing its investment in Aberdeen by moving into flexible Grade A office accommodation, which offers the firm the opportunity to double its headcount in the city as it anticipates sustained growth in the region.
A Berwickshire based company has been fined £300,000 after an employee was crushed by a concrete panel. BSW Sawmills Limited pled guilty to health and safety breaches committed between 1 June 2017 and 6 October 2017 at Dumfries Sheriff Court on 28 September 2021.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has proposed resuming investigations into alleged atrocity crimes in Afghanistan, with a focus on Islamist groups like the Taliban – while "de-prioritising" alleged crimes by the US. Karim A. A. Khan QC has sought authorisation fro
Strathclyde Mediation Clinic was presented with the 2021 Community Contribution Award at the Scottish Legal Awards in Glasgow last week.
English IP court finds no trade mark infringement in dispute between “archangel” holistic therapists
The English Intellectual Property Enterprise Court has rejected a claim for trade mark infringement by a self-described “spiritual and holistic therapist” who claimed that another holistic therapist had been using her mark to market online courses and upheld a counterclaim of passing off
