The Law Society of Scotland is increasing its recommended minimum pay for trainee solicitors by five per cent in response to economy-wide wages growth and inflationary pressures. From 1 June 2025, the recommended rate for trainees in Scotland will be £24,840 for first-year trainees and £
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The Trump administration has been accused of seeking to intimidate the judiciary after a sitting judge was arrested and charged with allegedly helping a defendant evade arrest by immigration enforcement officers. Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County Circuit in Wisconsin was arrested on Friday afte
The next edition of CLT Scotland’s popular Scots Law Series will be taking place live online during June with delegates able to choose from nine individual conferences. Roy Spiers, CLT Scotland’s director of programmes, said: “We are delighted to attract a panel of expert speakers
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published an interim update on the practical implications of the UK Supreme Court's landmark judgment on the meaning of "woman" in equality law.
A Dundee sheriff has refused an appeal by a trust against a decision of the Scottish ministers to allow a community body to exercise the right to purchase derelict land in St Andrews owned by the trust, in the first appeal of its kind in Scotland. Forthtay Ltd Employee Trust, which owned a plot of l
The state of Scotland’s police estate has been revealed in new figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives. A freedom of information response received by the party details that 333 police stations require repairs.
Two men who plotted to ferry cannabis with a street value of up £1.5 million into Scotland from Europe hidden inside a lorry load of watermelons have been imprisoned for a total of 13 years and two months. Scott McSeveney, 37, masterminded the cross-border plan and enlisted HGV company owner S
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has today laid its budget for 2025-26 at Holyrood after the SLCC Board approved its draft budget and operating plan following a statutory consultation. Commenting on the budget, SLCC chair, Jane Malcolm said: “We’re grateful to those organi
The demolition of a building known as "Britain's biggest man cave" has cost around £220,000 in taxpayers' money.
A commercial judge has imposed an additional uplift on the judicial expenses of a company group that abandoned before proof an £85 million action alleging an unlawful means conspiracy on the part of eleven defenders after finding that its conduct in the action had been unreasonable. Mex Group
With this book Dr Kennedy, a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of Dundee, provides a substantial analysis of crime in late seventeenth-century Scotland. The limitation is ‘serious’ crime, which is to say that prosecuted in the Justiciary Court, the central court with crimina
The European Commission has fined Apple and Meta after finding that the tech giants breached their obligations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the DMA and Meta breached its obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less
Shops across France have begun posting CCTV footage of alleged shoplifters on social media, telling those depicted that the images will be taken down if they reimburse the cost of the stolen items. Retailers say they have turned to the tactic "as a deterrent" amid a growing sense of frustration over
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Scores of Civilians Reportedly Among Victims of Latest US Airstrikes on Yemen
A private prison and health board are to be prosecuted over alleged failures that resulted in the death of a prisoner. Calum Inglis, 34, died in his prison cell at HMP Addiewell in West Lothain after he tested positive for Covid-19 in October 2021.
