Professor Conor Gearty is to speak at St Andrews University later this month about his most recent book. In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world promising to protect ordinary citizens from bombings, hijackings and other form
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Dundee Law School has announced the passing of Fiona Raitt. Professor Raitt was co-founder of Dundee law firm Wilson & Raitt and worked there for 10 years before taking up the post of director of the diploma in professional legal practice at Dundee Law School in 1993.
The High Court of Justiciary has imposed a longer period of detention on a teenager who was given an extended sentence in respect of offences of assault and culpable homicide against two different men on the same day after a challenge to his original sentence by the Crown. EK, who at age 15 tendered
Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882. David J Black reminds us just how famous Burns was. See part one here.
A woman accused by a shopkeeper of squeezing a bag of buns has been charged with criminal damage in Japan. The 40-year-old woman insisted that she had "only checked the firmness" of the buns by "pressing lightly with my hand", the BBC reports.
Dundee University is set to shut down its forensic science research hub, putting 24 jobs at risk as the institution grapples with a £30 million budget shortfall, The Courier reports. Staff at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science were informed of the decision by centre director P
Dorothy Parker was celebrated in her time as a poet, a critic and a writer. Above all, she is cherished today for her acerbic wit. But she is less well-known for her Hollywood screenwriting career which spanned three tumultuous decades. Parker detested Hollywood from the very start – despising
Elon Musk's X is to pay $10 million to US president Donald Trump to settle his lawsuit over his suspension in 2021 from what was then Twitter. Mr Trump was banned from most major social media platforms after hundreds of his supporters stormed the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021 in a bid to ove
The discretionary fatal accident inquiry into the death of baby Sophia Smith will commence at 10:00am on 17 February at Glasgow Sheriff Court. Newborn Sophia died at the Royal Hospital for Children at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus, Glasgow, on 11 April 2017.
A man caught with a quantity of chemicals that could have been used to manufacture homemade explosives as well as being in possession of thousands of indecent images of children has been jailed for a total of 44 months. Ryan O’Donnell, 37, stored the substances, including potassium nitrate, ni
Beginning on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, new 10-part series You Do Not Have to Say Anything, presented by defence barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind, lifts the curtain on the real criminal justice system and the real people working within it. From our sofas in Britain, we lap up docuseries and podcasts scru
A sheriff in the Upper Tribunal for Scotland has allowed an appeal against a Low Emission Zone penalty charge notice after finding that the issuing authority had not provided sufficient evidence of the vehicle’s non-compliance, and remitted the case to the First-tier Tribunal. Damion Spittles
Current legal mechanisms to challenge and dispose of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are not fit for purpose and a new process is needed, according to new research. SLAPPs are lawsuits that are used, often by wealthy and powerful people, to prevent the publication of informa
Liam McKay explains why the Scottish construction sector may be less affected by a ruling south of the Border. A recent decision by the High Court of England and Wales regarding construction contracts may not hold true in Scotland.
