A lawyer who left a hurried note on another lawyer's car after "dinging" it was entering into a binding contract to pay them, a tribunal has ruled. Carly Peddle wrote and left a note which read "I dinged your back passenger door / happy to pay for!" after accidentally denting Richard Brooks' car doo
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Judges yesterday said there were reasonable grounds to suspect both men have committed the crime against humanity of persecution on gend
At least 13 people are thought to have taken their own lives as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, while at least 59 more contemplated suicide, according to the first report from the public inquiry into what has been described as the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history
A man who had a wisdom tooth unsuccessfully extracted and required to have surgery performed on his mouth has lost a personal injury case against the dentist who originally attempted the extraction after it was found that his actions were not outwith the range of reasonable options available in the
A report has praised an important protection for legal services consumers provided by the Law Society of Scotland.
Two men have been jailed for more than eight years after turning two Aberdeen flats into drug supply dens. Dean Alford, 31, and Rory Morgan, 32, used the rented properties in Esslemont Avenue and Granton Place to traffic drugs, including cocaine.
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service is now able to start exploring a new application programme interface (API) service for raising ordinary actions in the Sheriff Court and ASSPIC. The service allows for bulk submissions of initial writs and would benefit those that do high volume ordinary cau
Thousands of defendants could lose the automatic right to have their cases heard by a jury under sweeping reforms proposed by a senior judge aiming to ease the record backlog in the Crown Courts. Sir Brian Leveson, the former Court of Appeal judge who led the government-commissioned review, has prop
Renewable energy practitioners, academics and policy-makers gathered at the University of Aberdeen for an event focused on advancing community-led energy initiatives in the region. Community Renewables in the North East of Scotland: Looking Back, Moving Forward, held on 27 June, explored how communi
A 200-year-old church will be formally transferred to its local community in a milestone ceremony as part of a major restoration project.
Gillespie Macandrew has announced the appointment of Frank Blin CBE as its new chair. He takes on the role from Michael Shaw, who retires after a three-year term in the position during which the firm has seen significant growth.
The Courier has published an obituary of William Berry, who has passed away at the age of 85. "William studied first at the University of St Andrews and then completed his law degree at Edinburgh. He qualified as a solicitor in 1965.
There have been scores of assaults on prisoners and staff at HMP Inverness, according to new figures. With a design capacity of just 103 prisoners, HMP Inverness is one of Scotland’s smallest prisons. Despite its small size, a parliamentary question from Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spoke
