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Police have busted a Lego trafficker who allegedly tried to resell up to $10,000 worth of merchandise shoplifted from a rival store. Seattle Police Department dubbed their investigation "Operation: MandalOrganized Retail Theft" because many of the stolen sets were based on the Star Wars TV show The

Hungary and Poland have been dealt a blow in their legal challenge to EU rules cutting funding for member states that fail to protect the rule of law after an advocate-general sided with the European Parliament and Council. The two member states had brought actions before the Court of Justice of the

The payout to the family of Lamara Bell has taken place — at long last. David Nellaney, the solicitor for the family, with proper professional restraint, described the delay on the part of Police Scotland as ”unfortunate". Rather the whole thing, to me, is a disgrace. The deaths of Lamar

A woman who was convicted of sending offensive messages to her MP has lost an appeal by stated case against the trial sheriff’s decision to repel a no case to answer submission under section 160 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. Vaiva Sutinyte was convicted of an offence unde

The UK government has proposed a bill that would function as a vehicle for changing the law around judicial reviews when it dislikes the findings of judges. The Interpretation Bill, devised by Attorney General Suella Braverman QC and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, is preferred by Downing Street and

A new edition of Representing Yourself in the Scottish Family Courts, Shared Parenting Scotland's user guide for party litigants in child contact court cases, has been published. The 3rd edition of the guide has been updated to cover recent changes in the law and court rules including the workings o

Middle-class drug users could lose their passports or driving licences as part of a new UK government strategy on drugs. The news comes as it was reported that traces of cocaine were found in 11 bathrooms in Parliament.

It was reported this week that Alice Sebold, author of the Lovely Bones amongst other works, had issued a public apology for her part in a miscarriage of justice that led to Anthony Broadwater spending 17 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. But could this miscarriage of justice have

It is exceedingly desirable that justice should be administered by persons who could not be suspected of any, even indirectly, interested motive.

Wall Street bankers have been advised to dress down to avoid being mugged as crime returns to the streets of New York. Bank of America executives have told junior staff that dressing up or wearing the bank's logo could make them a target, the New York Post reports.

Burness Paull has been named Legal Advisor of the Year at the 2021 Scottish Business Insider Deals & Dealmakers Awards and winner of a UK-wide diversity award for its work on raising awareness of menopause in the workplace. The firm, which has topped the table of corporate dealmakers in Scotland

The cases of sub-postmasters in Scotland who may have been wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office over its faulty computer system have been referred for review by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The SCCRC announced last year that it was investigating the issue in Scotland. It h

Nine US lawyers who failed in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election result in favour of Donald Trump have been ordered to pay $175,000. Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and seven others were sanctioned in August after a federal judge ruled that their lawsuit in Michigan “represents a historic and pr

A secondary school teacher who was hit on the head by a wooden partition while teaching at a school in Dundee has failed to prove before the Outer House of the Court of Session that his mental health deteriorated as a result of the accident. Fenrir Thorvaldsen claimed that the accident had left him

A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the deaths of Lamara Bell and John Yuill more than six years after they died in an accident on the M9. The announcement follows the news that a £1 million payout has been made to the family of Lamara Bell by Police Scotland.