The UK government has said it will not challenge judicial reviews brought against development consent for the Jackdaw and Rosebank offshore oil and gas fields in the North Sea. The move, which has been welcomed by the #StopRosebank campaign bringing the case, does not mean the licences for Jackdaw a
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A Lord Ordinary has allowed a proof in an £800,000 personal injury action raised against a former ambulance technician and the Scottish Ambulance Service under chapter 43 of the Rules of the Court of Session based on alleged abuse committed by the technician against a patient. Pursuer NM raise
English prisons are virtually full, according to new figures showing fewer than 100 places now left across the male prison estate. According to the BBC, there were a record 84,596 inmates in the male prison estate as of Friday 23 August.
Neilsons Solicitors and Estate Agents has formed a new partnership with The Spartans FC. The Spartans FC is one of Edinburgh’s most respected local football clubs, competing at a high level in Scottish League Two.
House prices in Scotland's island regions have outpaced those in the rest of the country, with a 30 per cent increase to £182,000 since 2018, according to Registers of Scotland.
A man posing as a taxi driver who raped a woman in his unlicensed vehicle has been jailed. Mohamad Sabbagh was found guilty on 1 August following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Labour Party for repeatedly failing to respond to hundreds of subject access requests (SARs). In November 2022, the Labour Party had received 352 SARs that required a response. Of that number, 78 per cent had not receive
The closing date for entries for the Faculty of Advocates’ Scottish Bar International Human Rights Award 2024 has been extended to the end of September.
A joint fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the deaths of three people who were all previously involved with services provided by Greater Glasgow Health Board. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to begin the court process for
An appeal by the Chief Constable of Police Scotland seeking her removal from an action by a scaffolding hire company for declarator and recovery of allegedly stolen goods from a company hired to store them has been allowed by the Sheriff Appeal Court. The Chief Constable was originally called as a t
Scotland's leading crime-writing festival returns to Stirling this year with support from the Faculty of Advocates. Bloody Scotland established itself as the leading Scottish International Crime Writing Festival in 2012 with acclaimed writers Lin Anderson and Alex Gray at the helm, then joined by Cr
Filmmaker Danny Boyle has been banned by a church court from filming scenes for his zombie apocalypse threequel in an English church. The Consistory Court of the Diocese of Newcastle said the Morpeth Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin would be "profaned" by the filming, The Telegraph reports.
Shoplifting is up by more than a third since last year, according to new police figures. The latest recorded crime figures reveal that 40,554 alleged shoplifting crimes were reported to police in the year ending June 2024, up from 30,202 the previous year and 27,045 in the year ending June 2020.
A man who sexually assaulted and raped a teenage girl after meeting her on the street has been jailed. Jakub Sojka was found guilty on 31 July following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
The Outer House of the Court of Session has refused to give permission for a farming partnership to challenge an arbitrator’s decision that an expulsion notice served on a member of a farming partnership was invalid on the ground of legal error. The petitioners, who sought to expel a member of
