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The prisoner transportation and custody firm used by the courts is putting "unacceptable pressures" on the justice system with its severe delays, a lawyer has said. Defence solicitor Matthew McGovern tweeted that GEOAmey's service was an "absolute disgrace" after highlighting a delay of more than 10
A Lord Ordinary has declared that a notice of variation of sea fishing licences issued by Marine Scotland is not compatible with the National Marine Plan adopted pursuant to the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 following a petition for judicial review. The Open Seas Trust, a charity whose purposes include
Shoosmiths has been appointed to Avant Homes’ Scottish legal panel. The appointment sees the firm extend its relationship with the UK housebuilder after securing a place on Avant’s England and Wales legal panel in 2021.
The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by a patient of an Ayrshire dentist who was removed from the Dentists Register against a sheriff’s decision that he was not responsible for an acute stress disorder suffered by the patient as a result of learning of a small chance he had contracte
Barrister Robin White, of Old Square Chambers, responds to a recent article on the Equality Act. I read with interest the article Equality Act and sex – important Scottish cases on the horizon by Dr Michael Foran of Glasgow University. Some of his analysis I agree with but much I disagree with
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. The US holds its nose over Saudi Arabia’s human rights record – when the price is right
The annual Balfour and Manson family law conference is under starter’s orders as the event returns to Perth Racecourse next week. Almost 150 family lawyers will attend the fully booked event, widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conferences of its kind.
A man convicted in the High Court in Glasgow of two rapes, one of which was committed while he was on bail relating to the first offence, has lost a challenge to a cumulo sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment. Dorel Simion argued that the cumulo sentence was excessive despite the serious nature o
Lord Turnbull has been appointed as chair of the coming statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing. The UK government announced in February that it would launch an inquiry into the preventability of the bombing, which was orchestrated by the Real IRA and led to the deaths of 29 people and two unb
A woman who took abortion pills beyond the 24-week statutory limit has been jailed for 14 months, sparking fresh calls for the decriminalisation of abortion in England and Wales. Carla Foster, a 44-year-old mother-of-three, pleaded guilty to the offence of administering poison with intent to procure
Stephen Vallance of Harper Macleod has been named as the new dean of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, one of Scotland’s oldest professional membership bodies. Mr Vallance assumes the position having held the vice-deanship for two years and having been a council member for six. He r
Two pupils from St Peter the Apostle High School in Clydebank have been crowned winners of this year’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) school public speaking competition.
Four up-and-coming Scottish solicitors have been shortlisted as finalists for this year’s In-House Rising Star Award. They were selected from a field of nine candidates for the Law Society of Scotland’s annual award to recognise the best Scottish-qualified in-house solicitors with up to
A judge in the Court of Session has refused to order the return of two young teenagers to the Netherlands to stay with their father after he made a Hague Convention application under the Child Abduction and Custody Act for their return, on the basis that it was not safe for them to return and they h
