The UK's legal services market has grown by more than 12 per cent in the past year, new figures show. Lawyers are on track for a record year after data from the Office of National Statistics indicated that they had recorded their second highest monthly billings on record.
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New initiatives to increase access to residential rehabilitation across Scotland which will be able to support more than 100 residential rehab placements have been introduced. Local Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) that are experiencing high demand will be able to access extra funding from the n
The Scottish Land Court has ruled that a 70-year-old man was the sole tenant of a farm in Stirling following the death of his mother after determining that the tenancy was not held by a partnership comprising both of them. Charles McAllister raised the action against his brothers Walter and George M
A learner driver who caused the death of three teenage passengers by dangerous driving has been sentenced to more than four years' imprisonment. Jake Loy, then 17, was the holder of a provisional driving licence and was not being supervised when he lost control of the black Honda Civic on March 16,
The number of asylum seekers who have died in Home Office care has more than doubled in the past year, The Guardian reports. Though some deaths occurred due to illness or old age, others were suicides. Charities worry that the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK has adversely affected their health
Prisoner transfer firm GEOAmey was responsible for inmates arriving to court late more than 14,000 times in the six months to last September, new figures show. As a result, there were 1,516 delays to court proceedings due to late arrivals or failures to bring prisoners to courtrooms. In addition, th
Evidence produced at the first trial of Lucy Letby indicating which staff had been in the baby unit she worked in was incorrect, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has admitted. The nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six at the Countess of Chester hospital
PwC has been fined £15 million by the the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report suspicions of fraud at now-defunct London Capital & Finance (LCF).
A pensioner’s petition challenging decisions of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to make deductions from his pension credit for loans he received during 2006 and 2007 has been refused by the Outer House of the Court of Session. It was contended by petitioner Alan Houston that state
A care home has been fined £500,000 for health and safety failings which led to the death of a 54-year-old woman. HC-One Limited, who ran Arcadia Gardens Care Home in Glasgow, pled guilty to a health and safety at work breach committed in March 2017.
A star American footballer has unexpectedly come to the defence of a woman jailed for stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings. Chris Jones, a player for the Kansas City Chiefs, has offered to pay for the wings in order to secure Vera Liddell's release from prison, USA Today reports.
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Victims of the infected blood scandal are to receive compensation this year, the UK government has confirmed. More than 3,000 people died because they became infected with diseases including HIV and Hepatitis C as a result of transfusions with infected blood in the 1970s and 1990s.
The Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland will again be joint national sponsors of the Legal Walks, organised annually by the Access to Justice Foundation to raise money to fund much-needed pro bono services. The Scottish Legal Walks have gone from two in 2021 to five in 2024. This is
