A former law student at the University of Glasgow has won a judicial review challenge against the decision of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman to refuse to investigate her complaints into a dispute over her degree classification after a lord ordinary found that two her three grounds of appeal
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The latest book in Willie McIntyre's Best Defence series hits shelves this week. Judge Not is the 15th book in the series. Did the Rev. Eddie Dunlop avenge his murdered wife? Of course he did. Is he linked to a series of gangland killings? It certainly looks like it. Why is Robbie Munro defendi
The Scottish government must “wake up” to threats posed by online criminal activity, the Lib Dems said after new figures revealed that fraud and computer misuse account for over two-fifths of all crime in Scotland. The 2023/24 Scottish Crime and Justice Survey shows that:
A 29-year-old skipper has been fined for causing serious damage to a fishing boat when he fell asleep after drinking. Shaun MacInnes, from Eriskay, was in charge of the FV Annette when it ran aground on the Isle of Rum on 31 March 2022.
Plans to transform social care across Scotland will be progressed after the Scottish Parliament approved the Care Reform (Scotland) Bill. Thousands of people with experience of accessing, delivering and receiving social care, social work and community health services have helped co-design the legisl
A senior corporate lawyer has come forward to claim a mysterious pile of cash seemingly abandoned near rubbish bins. Thai lawyer Thaweewat Sengkaew turned up at a police station to claim ownership of the 12 million baht in cash (around £272,300).
Legislation has been amended to ensure veterans who receive a payment from the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme do not lose out on council tax support. More than 1,200 people in Scotland who served under and suffered from the ban on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) personne
Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria are still being neglected by the country’s authorities, one year after Amnesty International’s report and launch of the #EmpowerOurGirls campaign. In June 2024, Amnesty International published 'Help us build our
The University and College Union has successfully defended claims made against it in the Employment Tribunal by two UCU members who argued they had been discriminated against and harassed by the union because of their gender critical beliefs. The case relates to UCU's Edinburgh University branch opp
Fearless, the youth service of independent charity Crimestoppers, has launched a new Scotland-wide education resource, aimed at helping young people better understand, recognise and respond to sextortion. The launch at Meldrum Academy in Aberdeenshire marks a key milestone in Fearless’ s
The Supreme Court has ruled that a creditor should be considered to be put on inquiry in any hybrid non-commercial transaction that appears to be overly weighted in favour of discharging the debts of a single borrower after an appeal was brought by a woman who was left with a mortgaged property she
Plans for the dead to be ‘cremated’ in boiling water before being flushed down the drain could soon be approved. A review by the Law Commission of England and Wales could clear the way for new funeral practices such as alkaline hydrolysis – sometimes dubbed "water cremation" &ndash
Public inquiries are imposing an "escalating and unsustainable burden" on Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) has claimed, citing a growing financial and operational crisis exacerbated by six major inquiries currently under way. In evidence submitted to Holyrood’s Finance and
Scotland’s criminal defence solicitors are to withdraw from a new flagship summary justice scheme in protest at the Scottish government’s failure to increase legal aid rates. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) has confirmed that its members will no longer participate in imple
