Creating sexually explicit 'deepfake' images is to become a criminal offence in England and Wales. The UK government says it is concerned by the rate at which "hyper-realistic" fake sexual images of real women and girls are proliferating thanks to widespread access to new technology.
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The 6th edition of the Scottish Standard Clauses has been released by the Scottish Conveyancers Forum. The Scottish Standard Clauses are a set of standard missive conditions which are used in the vast majority of residential sales and purchases in Scotland.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has quashed an employment tribunal’s order to reinstate an employee of the British Council whom it dismissed after it was alleged that he had sexually touched an employee of the British Embassy in Italy at a social event in his flat. Paul Sellers raised a claim o
Thompsons Scotland LLP has announced the establishment of the life impact team, a group of specialist solicitors committed to handling serious injury cases. The new team consolidates extensive expertise to pursue justice for survivors of historical abuse, individuals with complex or catastrophic inj
Literature is another casualty of our ailing civilisation. David J Black discusses the simulacrum left in its wake. See part one here. Unlike her risque predecessors Jilly Cooper and Joanna Trollope, Ms Rooney enjoys the honorific sobriquet "the voice of a generation", in which office she has seemin
In ATG Services (Scotland) Limited v Ogilvie Construction Limited [2024] CSOH 94, Lord Sandison delivered a stark warning about ‘unjustified’ challenges to the enforcement of adjudication decisions, writes Kate Ross. In this case, ATG Services (a subcontractor) had launched a “smas
A monkey in a pink tutu has been apprehended by police in the US. The fashionable spider monkey was staying at a home in Jefferson County, Missouri when it "managed to open a door and get outside", police said.
Westwater Advocates has welcomed Isabella Ennis KC back to civil practice from the Crown Office. Ms Ennis, whose main areas of practice are family law and personal injury, said that she was excited to return to Westwater Advocates.
A former Supreme Court president has said that parents who have to fight for access to their children without legal representation are being deprived of their human rights. Lord Neuberger, who was the UK's most senior judge from 2012 to 2017, told The Guardian that the removal of legal aid from fami
Edinburgh Law School's Professor James Harrison is to deliver his inaugural lecture on a fundamental question of environmental legal scholarship: how much environmental protection can we expect environmental law to deliver? Whilst protection of the environment is undoubtedly the underlying obj
An appeal by two company directors against a sheriff’s decision they had acted unfairly towards a former director who was dismissed unilaterally after a period of serious illness has been refused by the Sheriff Appeal Court. Pursuer and respondent Stephen Miller originally raised the action ag
In the second part of his analysis of the Lockerbie case, Ronnie Clancy KC, who was Crown counsel in the appeals, looks at the issues surrounding the timer used for the bomb and the famous suitcase. Read part one here. As matters stand in the aftermath of the latest Lockerbie appeal, the most promin
David J Black exemplifies Juvenal's dictum that "It is difficult not to write satire". Literary criticism will not be the purpose of this exercise, so those anticipating a promotional puff for Intermezzo or anything else by the much celebrated Sally Rooney may be disappointed. It’s usually a r
