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A former clerk of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service found guilty of forming a fraudulent scheme to acquire sole title to a property in the US state of Florida that she had jointly owned with her ex-partner has lost an appeal against her conviction based on the sheriff’s handling of new

A doctor and her husband have been imprisoned for a total of 20 months after selling stolen hospital personal protective equipment (PPE) on eBay during the pandemic. Attiya Sheikh, 46, and her husband Omer, 48, both of Glasgow, used four accounts on the website to sell the items between May and Octo

A man caught on CCTV brutally assaulting and abusing a woman he met for a date has been jailed for nine years. Michael Harvey, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, was found guilty of attempted murder after footage from Glasgow city centre cameras captured him viciously attacking the woman. 

The Scottish government’s consultation on the Housing (Scotland) Bill closed last week, bringing to an end a heated debate over proposed rent control measures and potential exemptions that have sharply divided landlords and tenants' groups. At the heart of the dispute is a provision in the bil

The secretive way judges are appointed via an ‘old boys' network could be at an end after an historic Court of Appeal ruling. Kate Thomas, a judge with 30 years’ experience in the legal profession, successfully challenged the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) over its use of ‘

Following a BBC Panorama investigation, ESPC CEO Paul Hilton highlights the ethical advantages of working with solicitor estate agents in Scotland. A Panorama investigation south of the border revealed unscrupulous practices by some estate agents in England, raising serious concerns for home buyers

Irwin Mitchell has welcomed associate Claire Paterson to its medical negligence team in Scotland. Ms Paterson – who is recognised in Chambers & Partners for her “forward thinking and innovative approach” to litigation – has a proven track record in helping families with c

The Inner House of the Court of Session has allowed an appeal by a woman who raised a personal injury claim against an ambulance technician and the Scottish Ambulance Service against a lord ordinary’s decision that her direct case of breach of duty against the second defender was irrelevant in

The first new textbook on Scottish criminal justice in a decade has been published. Criminal Justice in Scotland, by Jamie Buchan, Sarah Anderson and Katrina Morrison, encompasses many significant developments across Scottish criminal justice and beyond. It combines careful attention to procedural a

Glasgow University rector Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawfully banned from speaking at a pro-Palestinian conference in Germany, a court in Berlin has ruled. A chamber of three judges in Berlin's administrative court this week ruled that the ban on political activity imposed by Berlin's immigration o

Murderland, as a history of extreme crime in particular geographical areas of the United States of America, transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology. Many of the individual criminals discussed in the book are very well-known. It may seem odd, however, to read that in 1972 the city of El Pa

A group of people smugglers who hid migrants in lorries have been jailed. The organised crime group – consisting of Azize Benaniba, 41; Mahmoud Haidous, 53; Mohamed Bechkit, 36; Abed Karrouz, 40; Amor Ghabbari, 32; Mohamed Abdelhadi, 50; and Mohamed Bouriche, 43 – would arrange to meet m

In October of 1739 an Irish merchant vessel, the William, slipped out of Donaghadee harbour near Belfast and sailed into infamy. Its stated goal of collecting Norwegian timber shrouded the dark mission of its master William Davidson – to kidnap Scottish crofters and sell them into slavery in t

Journalists are set to begin attending and reporting from family court hearings in Northern Ireland this October under a planned pilot scheme. Greater transparency in the family courts was one of the issues to be examined by a judicial working group established by the lady chief justice in September