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Professor Françoise Jane Hampson, OBE, holder of the chair of the International Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights at the University of Essex, died on 18 April 2025 in Colchester. Her academic career started at the University of Dundee in 1975 where she was renowned for her diligence and

Evelyn Wallace, a senior associate at TC Young, has successfully completed the Child Centred Practice course, delivered by the Law Society of Scotland in partnership with Clan Childlaw. This specialised training is designed to enhance legal professionals’ understanding of children’s righ

An Aberdeen sheriff has granted decree for payment in an action by a trade supplier against a partnership and two of its partners but only in respect of the second partner, after finding that the action was not competent in respect of the other defenders due to the timing of when the minute seeking

An Edinburgh Law School team has won multiple prizes at the 2025 Day of Crisis Competition in the Netherlands.

The General Court of the European Union has annulled a decision by the European Commission to refuse a journalist's request for access to text messages exchanged between Ursula von der Leyen and the CEO of Pfizer. The New York Times journalist Matina Stevi submitted an application under th

The rule of law is a fundamental component of a functioning democracy that must be protected, the Law Society of Scotland has told a House of Lords inquiry. The society has provided written evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee inquiry into the rule of law, stating that it is a funda

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of YZ to the High Court of Justiciary for determination. In 2021, the applicant pled guilty on summary complaint to two charges of contravening section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003 and on a separate complaint, to a charg

TikTok has been accused by the European Commission of breaching advertising transparency rules in the Digital Services Act (DSA). Following the launch of an investigation in February 2024, the Commission last week informed TikTok of its preliminary view that its advertisement repository falls short

A string of prosecutions in the UK should spur UK manufacturers to take action to meet their legal obligations to address health risks arising from dust, writes Charlotte O’Kane. In the last year, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecutions have resulted in cases in which businesses - and,

A judge has criticised two neighbours for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a legal dispute over "a tap and a pipe that doesn't matter".

Lewis and Harris, or Lewis with Harris, are one – a Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides, around 24 miles from the Scottish mainland. With an area of 841 square miles it is the largest island in Scotland and the third largest in the British Isles, after Great Britain and Ireland.

A former member of the Household Cavalry has lost a case against the Ministry of Defence in which he claimed that he was negligently exposed to unsafe levels of noise while working with armoured vehicles in order to test them for future military use. Jonathan Bevan drove and tested Ajax armoured veh

An inquiry has been launched by Holyrood's Criminal Justice Committee into tackling harms caused by substance misuse in Scottish prisons. The inquiry is split into three parts and will consider the impact of substances, including drugs and alcohol, in Scotland’s prisons. The first part will lo

Two men who set up a drugs trafficking network worth hundreds of thousands of pounds have been imprisoned for a total of nine years. Jamie Montgomery, 44, and Darrin Campbell, 39, both of Glasgow, orchestrated the sale and supply of large quantities of cocaine and cannabis.

How willing would you be to hand over your mobile phone to the police if they asked to examine its contents? Why are many suspicious of facial recognition technology, yet happy to use this to unlock their digital devices? These are themes that University of Dundee and Open University experts are hel