The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has submitted a supplementary report to Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC on the circumstances surrounding the death of Sheku Bayoh on 3 May 2015. The commissioner submitted an interim report to the Lord Advocate in August 2015.
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Police Scotland’s mole hunt made in order to reveal journalistic sources was unlawful according to a judicial tribunal. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ordered the single force to pay a journalist whose communications were intercepted £10,000 in compensation.
A 32 year old from North Yorkshire has been ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years in jail for the murder of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah. The High Court in Glasgow heard that on 24 March this year, having driven from Bradford, Tanveer Ahmed entered a newsagent on Minard Road and began arguing with
An intriguing look back through Scotland’s legal and political heritage is available in this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the return of the Hidden Gem exhibition in historic Parliament Hall. The free exhibition, which tells the remarkable story behind Scotland’s highest courts, will b
25 August 2016, 18:00 - 20:00 University of Aberdeen,
In Caroline Bridges v Alpha Insurance A/S CSOH 114, a civil jury trial concerning a pedestrian road traffic accident, Lord Tyre has issued a Note, explaining his approach to guidance for the jury on quantum, following the practice directed by the Inner House in Hamilton v Ferguson Transport (Spean B
An exhibition of artwork playing a vital role in the rehabilitative journey of offenders is to go on display at the country’s top court next month, following an invitation by a new charity aiming to use art to explore the role of courts and other legal institutions. The exhibition, PAPERWORK, has
The Gambling Commission has imposed a financial penalty of £300,000 on Camelot, the operator of the National Lottery. This follows the publication of inaccurate Lotto Millionaire Raffle results on the National Lottery website for an hour and over 100,000 people viewing them. The error occurred on 1
The article 3 and 5 rights of a Kyrgyz national detained in Russia for more than a year and threatened with extradition were violated, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The applicant, Mr U.N., is a Kyrgyzstan national who was born in 1991 and lives in Vladivostok in Russia. The case conc
After more than four centuries, a book that once belonged to Scots poet Alexander Hume has returned home to the University of St Andrews. Dating from 1548, the rare legal manuscript described by scholars as “Scotland’s first great law book” was gifted to Hume by his maternal uncle, Alexander H
Macdonald Henderson has acted for a shareholder consortium of St Mirren Football Club in the sale of a controlling interest in the club to property developer Gordon Scott and the St Mirren fans. Mr Scott joined forces with the St Mirren Independent Supporters Association to buy out the consortium in
A tour of the Faculty of Advocates and Parliament House - and judges’ wigs - caught the imagination of a group of more than 20 students from the United States who are visiting Scotland. Through a longstanding partnership with Aberdeen University, the law schools of the University of Baltimore and
