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Lawyers for the UK government have asked Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal for more time to decide how it will deliver a human rights compliant investigation of the 1998 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Lord Justice Horner last month gave the government a three-week deadline to agree a way

A better solution is needed to deal with solicitors who fail to co-operate with the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC), the body has said. The Inner House of the Court of Session last week stopped short of finding a practitioner in contempt of court after three hearings and a proof relating

A Lord Ordinary has determined that a screening opinion by Glasgow City Council that it could demolish two tower blocks without conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment had been unlawfully adopted but refused to reduce it on the basis that the error had been minor. Caz Rae, who lived in the vic

A £33 million Scottish government initiative for sharing digital evidence from crime scene to court room is being rolled out across Scotland. Digital Evidence Sharing Capability (DESC) allows police officers, prosecutors, defence lawyers, court staff and judges to access a secure, unified syst

Michael Cox and Cameron Knaggs discuss a new and much-needed form of security in Scotland. Modern day businesses can have various significant moveable assets that they would like to utilise for the purpose of raising bank finance. For example, many technology businesses are rich in intellectual prop

A prolific child sex offender who abused four young boys over a 19-year period has been jailed. Peter McCormick, 66, admitted being engaged in lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards the children between June 1978 and December 1997.

A man found guilty of raping two women and sexually assaulting a third has had his prison sentence increased following a successful appeal by the Crown. Anthony Plaskett was given a five-year prison term in January 2024, which prosecutors argued was unduly lenient.

Addleshaw Goddard remained the top legal adviser for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Scotland in the first half of this year, according to the latest Experian United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland M&A Review. The firm advised on 11 deals, ahead of CMS, which took second place with ei

All eyes are on Paris and the publishers are cashing in on the Olympics with a raft of new books focussing on ‘The City of Light’.

Human rights campaigners have welcomed the release of 16 people in the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Those pardoned, released and exiled from Russia and Belarus include Russian activists and human rights defenders Oleg Orlov, Aleksandra 'Sasha' Skochilenko, Li

A man has been jailed for shoplifting nearly 800 Cadbury's Crème Eggs. Layton Richards, 29, was charged with 24 offences after stealing the chocolate from 19 different shops in the south of England between January and April.

Two appeals by the trustees of the Eighth Earl Cadogan’s 1961 Settlement Trust against decisions of the Scottish Land Court relating to disputes against the joint tenants of a farm in Perthshire, under which the trust held the landlord’s interest, have been refused by the Court of Sessio

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israel subjecting Palestinian detainees to torture and abuse: UN report

A former councillor caught with child sex abuse images has been given a community payback order. A mobile phone belonging to Ewan Dillon was found to contain 58 indecent photographs of girls aged between five and 15.

The Court of the Lord Lyon has made three promotions. Sheriff George Way of Plean CStJ FRSA has been promoted to Rothesay Herald in Ordinary.