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In October of 1739 an Irish merchant vessel, the William, slipped out of Donaghadee harbour near Belfast and sailed into infamy. Its stated goal of collecting Norwegian timber shrouded the dark mission of its master William Davidson – to kidnap Scottish crofters and sell them into slavery in t

Journalists are set to begin attending and reporting from family court hearings in Northern Ireland this October under a planned pilot scheme. Greater transparency in the family courts was one of the issues to be examined by a judicial working group established by the lady chief justice in September

A bumbling group of drug dealers who allegedly plotted to deliberately get arrested in order to benefit from bail conditions have been foiled. Singaporean police believe that the group of five Chinese nationals deliberately got caught offering bribes to officials in order to prolong their stay in th

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UN-backed team focusing on human rights in Palestinian areas announce resignations

Ayrshire-based Dales Solicitors has opened a new Stirling office.

The average price of a property in Scotland in May was £192,000, an increase of 6.4 per cent when compared to May 2024, according to Registers of Scotland's latest House Price Index. Compared to the previous month, house prices in Scotland were unchanged on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, whi

The Insolvency Service has announced plans to play a more prominent role in the fight against economic crime and be recognised as the UK’s leading authority in enforcing corporate and insolvency standards. Its new strategy commits the agency to broadening its remit, taking "robust" action agai

A farm worker convicted of a road traffic offence after driving onto a manually operated level crossing while it displayed warning lights and colliding with a train has lost an appeal by stated case against his conviction based on his contention that the locus of the offence had not been proved to b

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of Ly Quang Huynh to the High Court of Justiciary for determination. In March 2023, the applicant pled guilty to two charges of concern in the supply of class A drugs. The court imposed a cumulo sentence of six years and three month

The UK Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have laid their annual report and accounts before Parliament. The ARA is a statutory requirement and reviews the activities of both the court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), providing highlights of their work an

The General Court of the European Union has upheld a decision by the European Parliament to seek to recover more than €300,000 from the late Jean-Marie Le Pen. Mr Le Pen, a former MEP who founded and led France's far-right Front National until 2011, brought the legal proceedings in 2024, seekin

Florida's attorney general has embraced a baseless conspiracy theory that deadly flooding in Texas was caused by deliberate "weather modification". James Uthmeier is the latest in a growing list of Republican officials alleging that "cloud seeding" and "chemtrails" are responsible for extreme weathe