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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is marking its 40th anniversary by launching a digital exhibition telling the story of the most important moments in privacy and information rights over the past four decades. Our lives, our privacy: the 40 items that shaped 40 years of privacy right

US government lawyers have asked a judge to order Google owner Alphabet to sell its Chrome web browser and potentially also its Android mobile operating system. The US Department of Justice has proposed the remedies to Judge Amit Mehta following his ruling in August, in which he declared that Google

A passenger plane was grounded for days after nearly 150 hamsters broke loose and began to roam the aircraft freely. The animals escaped from the cargo hold during a commercial flight from Lisbon, Portugal to Ponta Delgada in the Azores last week, CBS News reports.

The enforcement of farmed animal welfare laws has not improved since the pandemic, according to a report from the Animal Law Foundation. Only 2.5 per cent of UK farms are inspected on average annually and fewer than one per cent of cases of non-compliance with animal welfare law are being prosecuted

Robert Shiels completes his look at the life of Sir Thomas Thornton LLD. Thornton also interested himself in the field of education, as clerk to the school board gave him an intimate knowledge of the various education acts. He was consulted by Miss Baxter and Dr Boyd Baxter about the establishment o

Specialist collective redress law firm, KP Law, acting on behalf of Roger Kaye KC, is planning to launch a claim worth billions of pounds alleging that Google has abused its dominant position in online search advertising. The claim will give a route to redress for thousands of businesses and other c

A new initiative is launching "to ensure more people can benefit from the investments being made in natural capital" across Scotland.  Led by Community Land Scotland in partnership with the Scottish Land Commission, the project aims to help deliver government expectations that communities are i

The Glasgow team of Weightmans won Law Firm of the Year (wider UK HQ) at The Herald Law Awards.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Detained Palestinian rights lawyer wins press freedom award | The New Arab

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published its written submission in advance of the hearing next week in the Supreme Court appeal of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, in which it was granted permission to intervene. As Britain’s equality regulator, the EHRC’s in

The Supreme Court has ruled that a Russian trustee in bankruptcy could not claim a property in London owned by a bankrupt Russian citizen due to the operation of the principle of immoveable property rights being solely determined by the laws of the country they are located in. Appellant Lyubov Kiree

Edinburgh-based lawyer and aid volunteer Andrea Fraser is raising funds for Gaza. Ms Fraser, who cycled solo from Ukraine to Edinburgh to raise money for maternity equipment for Ukraine in 2022, will now be swimming/dipping in cold water for 84 days to raise funds to buy a device that turns dirty se

The UK may look to follow the lead of the US in introducing a whistleblowing reward scheme in a bid to combat corporate crime. US Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, recently announced a new Department of Justice-run corporate whistleblower rewards pilot programme, highlighting the critical role w

Pop singer Katy Perry has won a 15-year-long trade mark dispute with a fashion designer called Katie Perry. The American pop star – whose real name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson – launched the legal action in 2009 after Australian woman Katie Jane Taylor, née Perry, registered "Kat