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A lorry driver charged with causing death by careless driving following a fatal collision with a cyclist has been acquitted at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. The fatal accident occurred during November 2020 at the busy junction between A199 Harry Lauder Road and B6415 Portobello High Street.

A case at the English Court of Appeal is considering whether all external job applicants should have whistleblowing legal protection. Currently the scope of whistleblowing law does not include people applying for a job, other than job applicants to the NHS who are legally protected by the Employment

Drummond Miller has succeeded in a claim alleging negligence against the Scottish Ambulance Service. In June 2020 Brian O’Neill had an unwitnessed fall at an off-grid rural hutting community with limited connections to local services. He sustained a wound to his head and tragically passed away

The Crown Office has warned of serious delays as time-bar extensions introduced during the pandemic are set to expire later this year. Between 2019/20 and 2023/24, 9,168 cases were dropped because they broke statutory time-bar limits or were delayed by other agencies.

Google has been fined by a Russian court for hosting YouTube videos which instruct Russian soldiers in Ukraine on how to surrender. The fine of 3.8 million rubles (around €40,000 or £33,000) was imposed by Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday, according to Russia's state-owned TASS

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is supporting a new child-centred resource from charity I Am Me Scotland focused on grooming, gangs and crime.  Aimed at young people in secure settings, a series of seven short films highlight the issues of child exploitation and human tra

A sheriff has ordered a company and its sole director to pay the excess monies from the sale of commercial premises to satisfy a secured debt to the premises’ original owner after he raised an action for accounting and payment seeking to enforce an agreement he had with them regarding the sale

The Law Society of Scotland granted extended rights of audience to an additional 11 new solicitor advocates yesterday.

The scheduled execution tomorrow of a Malaysian man for drug trafficking offences is a source of great alarm, Amnesty International has said. Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, 37, was convicted of importing 51g of heroin into Singapore, where he was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2017.

The Scottish Sentencing Council has launched a new podcast episode on prison sentencing, as part of its Scottish Sentencing Conversations podcast series. The new episode captures the views of people who have knowledge of and expertise in the prison system, and offers insights into prison sentencing

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) is to provide expertise free of charge to local businesses looking to make the most of the benefits of the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport (ICFGF). Partner Angus MacLeod, who is the head of the firm's Inverness office, will provide free advice t

The Scottish Law Commission has published a new report recommending repeal of the Tenancy of Shops (Scotland) Act 1949. If a tenant of a “shop” is unable to obtain renewal of the lease from the landlord, they may instead apply for renewal to the court under the 1949 Act. A “shop&rd

Thousands of criminal cases in Scotland have been abandoned over the past five years due to statutory time-bar limits and delays by police and reporting agencies, The Scotsman reports. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) took no action in over 9,000 cases affected by such delays.