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Rights groups Liberty and StopWatch are taking legal action against Home Secretary Priti Patel over her decision to ditch safeguards designed to limit discrimination in police use of stop and search powers. The groups warned that getting rid of the safeguards risks being unlawful and will result in
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Pictured (L-R): Natalie McBride, Jack Hamilton, Rachel Trease, Jaimie-Jean Hunter Four young lawyers have taken another step up the legal career ladder after being offered positions at Pinsent Masons in Aberdeen.
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The process of planning and paying to build renewable energy schemes in Scotland needs to be simpler and less costly to better tackle the climate challenge. That’s the view of a senior lawyer who is advising on a number of schemes across the country, as well as acting for landowners.
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Businesses are watching closely the outcomes of COP26 because decisions made will have a profound impact on their future, affecting what kind of activity will be possible, what kind of finance (if any) will be available, and changing the value of assets currently held. Following Wednesday’s an
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A rugby-loving Fife lawyer has tackled a sports charity’s toughest challenge, enabling more teenagers to gain from the game.
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An attempt by prosecutors in Hong Kong to charge people for rioting or illegal assembly, even if they are not physically present, has been thrown out by the region's highest court, The Times reports. The Court of Final Appeal ruled that people who are not actually at rallies cannot be prosecuted as
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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An Italian court has recommended that a bear who mauled a man be released back into the wild. The brown bear, known as M57, attacked off-duty policeman Diego Balasso near Andalo in the province of Trento. He was saved, however, after passers-by scared the animal off.
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Lord Hope of Craighead has recalled how, when sitting in a murder case, he realised police had arrested the wrong individual, "who was then accused and convicted". The crossbench peer was speaking in the Lords in support of amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which contains
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A complaint of discrimination by Health Secretary Humza Yousaf against a Dundee nursery has been upheld by a regulator. Mr Yousaf complained that Little Scholars Day Nursery in Broughty Ferry had discriminated against his daughter.
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A Catholic Brother from a religious order has been jailed for the historical sexual abuse of children over two decades. Michael Murphy, who was also known as Brother Benedict or Brother Ben, carried out the assaults against 19 boys between 1961 and 1981 at residential schools in Stirlingshire and Ea
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Emma Barclay has been promoted to partner within the corporate team at BTO Solicitors LLP. Ms Barclay, who joined BTO as a trainee solicitor in 2012, has focused on corporate law throughout her career. A valued team member, she has progressed through the ranks in less than a decade and will play a k
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The Lord Advocate has told MSPs she will take another look at any proposals for drug consumption rooms based on evidence. Addressing Holyrood’s Criminal Justice Committee, Dorothy Bain QC said “the question of what is in the public interest” could be re-examined in relation to the
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A Romanian politician given a suspended sentence for abuse of authority who challenged the judgment on the basis two of the judges had not signed it and had retired before its reasoning was finalised has failed in his Article 6 appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. In its decision in the cas
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Dispute resolution and mediation business, Squaring Circles, is celebrating its first two years in business by launching an online mediation service for disputes under £50,000. By utilising technology, Squaring Circles has streamlined its processes to make mediation for lower value claims more
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