The first new textbook on Scottish criminal justice in a decade has been published. Criminal Justice in Scotland, by Jamie Buchan, Sarah Anderson and Katrina Morrison, encompasses many significant developments across Scottish criminal justice and beyond. It combines careful attention to procedural a
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Glasgow University rector Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawfully banned from speaking at a pro-Palestinian conference in Germany, a court in Berlin has ruled. A chamber of three judges in Berlin's administrative court this week ruled that the ban on political activity imposed by Berlin's immigration o
Murderland, as a history of extreme crime in particular geographical areas of the United States of America, transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology. Many of the individual criminals discussed in the book are very well-known. It may seem odd, however, to read that in 1972 the city of El Pa
A group of people smugglers who hid migrants in lorries have been jailed. The organised crime group – consisting of Azize Benaniba, 41; Mahmoud Haidous, 53; Mohamed Bechkit, 36; Abed Karrouz, 40; Amor Ghabbari, 32; Mohamed Abdelhadi, 50; and Mohamed Bouriche, 43 – would arrange to meet m
In October of 1739 an Irish merchant vessel, the William, slipped out of Donaghadee harbour near Belfast and sailed into infamy. Its stated goal of collecting Norwegian timber shrouded the dark mission of its master William Davidson – to kidnap Scottish crofters and sell them into slavery in t
A bumbling group of drug dealers who allegedly plotted to deliberately get arrested in order to benefit from bail conditions have been foiled. Singaporean police believe that the group of five Chinese nationals deliberately got caught offering bribes to officials in order to prolong their stay in th
Ayrshire-based Dales Solicitors has opened a new Stirling office.
The Insolvency Service has announced plans to play a more prominent role in the fight against economic crime and be recognised as the UK’s leading authority in enforcing corporate and insolvency standards. Its new strategy commits the agency to broadening its remit, taking "robust" action agai
A farm worker convicted of a road traffic offence after driving onto a manually operated level crossing while it displayed warning lights and colliding with a train has lost an appeal by stated case against his conviction based on his contention that the locus of the offence had not been proved to b
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of Ly Quang Huynh to the High Court of Justiciary for determination. In March 2023, the applicant pled guilty to two charges of concern in the supply of class A drugs. The court imposed a cumulo sentence of six years and three month
The UK Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have laid their annual report and accounts before Parliament. The ARA is a statutory requirement and reviews the activities of both the court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), providing highlights of their work an
The General Court of the European Union has upheld a decision by the European Parliament to seek to recover more than €300,000 from the late Jean-Marie Le Pen. Mr Le Pen, a former MEP who founded and led France's far-right Front National until 2011, brought the legal proceedings in 2024, seekin
