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TLT has retained a ‘B’ score for good environmental management, from CDP for the third consecutive year. The CDP is an independent, global non-profit that runs the world’s leading environmental disclosure platform. The most recent disclosure questionnaire featured a number of key c

A Ghanaian student who was initially granted clearance to enter the UK in 2022 but was told at the border that he had not been permitted entry has won a challenge against the decision to cancel the entry clearance he had originally been granted. Jones Owusu challenged the decision of the Home Secret

More crime victims will get access to a range of information about the perpetrator and have a say on decisions about their prison release under newly unveiled justice reforms. Currently victims can register with the Victim Notification Scheme (VNS) if the offender in their case has been sentenced to

A serial rapist who sexually abused multiple women and girls over the course of nearly a decade has been jailed for 15 years. Stuart Harding was found guilty of 12 charges on 5 February 2025 following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. The 35-year-old's offending involved five victims and

States and companies are manufacturing, promoting and selling electric shock equipment that is being used for torture and other ill-treatment, said Amnesty International, in a new report calling for a global, legally-binding treaty to regulate the unchecked trade in law enforcement equipment. &ldquo

Choices, choices, always choices. On February 25th it was between an event in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall marking the third anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, or a ‘Gray Day’ in Glasgow’s Oran Mohr marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Scotland&r

More than two thirds (68 per cent) of Scottish employers expect costs to rise due to measures in the Employment Rights Bill, with over a fifth (22 per cent) likely to make redundancies as a result, according to research. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is calling on the U

Shared Parenting Scotland has published a revised and updated version of its guide – Representing Yourself in Scottish Family Court – intended for party litigants in child contact and residence cases. This is the third edition of the guide, first published in 2012. It has been prais

During the annual meeting of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow in 1954, the Dean, Sir Spencer Muirhead, made the observation that the Faculty's officer was the only one present at Queen Elizabeth's Coronation who was not carrying a ceremonial staff or mace.  Recognising the importance of su

Blackadders LLP has advised the M&D Green Group in its acquisition of nine Scotland-based community pharmacies from Northern Ireland’s largest independent pharmacy operator, Gordons Chemists. The multi-million-pound deal will bring the number of community pharmacies in the family business

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UN human rights chief ‘deeply worried by fundamental shift’ in US

A bumbling thief allegedly swallowed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Tiffany jewellery to conceal his crime before admitting he would have been better off throwing them out of a window. Texas man Jaythan Gilder, 32, was invited into the VIP room of a Tiffany & Co. jewellery store after