Female workers at a council are due backdated pay of up to six figures stemming from an equal pay dispute going back over 10 years.
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A transgender woman has failed in a legal challenge at the High Court to a requirement that she must be recorded as the “father” of her two children on their birth certificates. A judge ruled that the UK's birth registration scheme, which requires that the woman, JK, be recorded as the f
A landowner who is seeking to challenge a decision to grant consent to plans for a new wind farm near his estate has had an application for a protective expenses order refused. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that, having regard to the petitioner’s financial position, the proceedings would n
New Sheriffs have been appointed in South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway and Glasgow and Strathkelvin Robert Weir QC (pictured) has been appointed as sheriff of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway and Joan Kerr has been appointed as sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin.
A new alcohol bill at Holyrood has come under fire from licensing lawyers and figures in the trade who say the proliferation of licensing law “beggars belief” and is “a disgrace”. The Alcohol (Licensing, Public Health and Criminal Justice) (Scotland) Bill, introduced on April 1 by Labour MSP
The founder of Wikileaks has said Scottish nationalists were not paranoid to think the UK security services were involved in last year’s independence referendum. Julian Assange (pictured), speaking at the Commonwealth Law Conference in Glasgow said the referendum amounted to a “national security
The lord president Lord Gill (pictured) delivered the opening speech at the Commonwealth Law Conference in Glasgow this week on the independence of the judiciary and the independence of the legal profession. He discussed how the independence of the judiciary can be threatened in seemingly innocuous
Family rights charity Families Need Fathers (FNF)Scotland has announced significant funding support confirmed for 2015-16 and beyond. The Scottish Government is providing strategic partnership grants totalling £25,000 for 2015-16 for FNF Scotland’s core work of providing information and support t
The University of Strathclyde Mooting Society has won the annual Sheriff's Cup Moot – a one-off moot between Strathclyde and Glasgow universities. Strathclyde’s team, comprising Clara Smeaton andDrew Long won the title back from Glasgow this week.
The Labour peer and former barrister Greville Janner QC, Lord Janner of Braunstone will not be charged for the second time in relation to charges of alleged historical child sex abuse owing to his poor health, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. Abuse victims have said the establishment ha
Judges will need to look at claims jurors have unlawfully searched for information on their trials online under new laws that have come into force. New criminal offences of researching details of a case, sharing these details and disclosing details of jurors’ deliberations online have been created
The solicitor general, Lesley Thomson QC (pictured), has said the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the Glasgow bin lorry crash will look at the driver’s background, technical aspects of the vehicle itself and the safety of the route taken by the lorry. Six died and four were injured in the incide
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (pictured) is to address a conference of lawyers in Glasgow via video link from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London this week. Mr Assange, who has spent the past 34 months in the embassy building after he claimed asylum, is to discuss how mass data gathering infringes p
The auction house Christie’s has removed over £1.2 million worth of ancient artefacts after an academic from a Scottish university identified them as being linked to criminal networks in Europe The Scotsman reports. Dr Christos Tsirogiannis (pictured), a research assistant at the University of Gl
