New protections intended to give children safer lives have been finalised by Ofcom today. More than 40 measures have been laid down for tech firms to meet their duties under the Online Safety Act. These will apply to sites and apps used by UK children in areas such as social media, search and gaming
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A new Scots Law degree will start at the University of West of Scotland’s (UWS) Paisley campus in September 2025. The Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme is a four-year degree with the potential to be undertaken part-time over a six-year period and is fully accredited by the Law Society of Scotla
A Scottish school must provide single-sex toilets for pupils after parents won a legal battle against a council which insisted on installing gender-neutral facilities, The Times reports. In a case dubbed the "first of many" which will see the rights of women and girls asserted in the wake of the Sup
An accountant has lost a £700,000 court claim against developers after refusing to complete the purchase of a £1.5 million flat in south London's Aykon London One tower, nicknamed the 'Versace Tower' for its fashion house-designed interiors. Mi Suk Park, 54, paid a £381,000 deposit
A couple who leased a property in Renfrewshire who argued that their landlords had breached the Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011 by transferring their deposit from one approved scheme to another without telling them have lost an appeal to the Upper Tribunal against a decision that
A legislature has passed a bill dubbed by its detractors as the “Let Politicians Lie Act". The Missouri Legislature passed Senate Bill 22, which allows politicians to rewrite ballot summary language up to three times, even after courts have ruled it unlawful.
A woman with hydrocephalus and spina bifida who had her level of care reassessed after moving to a new local authority area has lost a judicial review challenge against the approach taken by her new Council in assessing her required level of care after a lord ordinary ruled the authority had not act
There are five Scottish Legal Walks 2025 planned for this autumn in support of access to justice and local legal advice charities. Four have been confirmed so far:
A former nurse who stalked and terrified a woman after matching with her on a dating app has been jailed again – this time for breaching a non-harassment order. Adele Rennie, 34, from Kilmarnock, pled guilty at the town’s Sheriff Court yesterday. She admitted contacting a woman she had p
The Scottish government is to amend its guidance on the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 after its defeat in the Supreme Court last week. Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said that the Scottish government was looking at updating its guidance on single-sex sp
A bus driver with 29 years of service has lost a retirement package worth £63,800 because he stole £5 in passenger fares. The man was sacked by Kyoto City in Japan after he was caught stealing the paltry sum of ¥1,000 in 2022.
A Hamilton sheriff has found that a defender in an action for disqualification from directorship was in contempt of court after he took photographs of witnesses for the pursuer and posted them alongside derogatory comments about the weight and integrity of one of them on two social media accounts. G
Lawyers have been urged to resign from a law firm after it made a deal with Donald Trump. A former lawyer at A&O Shearman, Olivier Fréget, called on his ex-colleagues not to each be an “accomplice” in Trump’s crackdown on the legal sector as the firm came to an agreement
The UK Supreme Court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has published the final year of its three-year Business Plan 2023-26. The plan sets our five strategic priorities:
Lawyers have accused the Scottish government of intentionally delaying action on legal aid until after next year's Holyrood election. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) said the profession was being treated with contempt as it confirmed it will escalate its boycott of the government's su
