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A man convicted of possession of a shotgun without a firearms certificate has lost an appeal against the conviction based on an argument that the jury was not entitled to infer that he knew the gun was in the back of his van. Stuart McMillan was convicted of a contravention of section 1(1)(a) of the

Two men who drugged, raped and murdered a young father in Fife just hours after meeting him have been jailed for life. Dylan Brister, 27, and Cameron Allan, 21, spiked Calum Simpson’s drink, leaving him unconscious at the Methil property in November 2021.

LinkedIn has been slapped with a €310 million fine by Ireland's Data Protection Commission in connection with behavioural analysis and targeted advertising. The inquiry into LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company was launched by the DPC, in its role as the lead supervisory authority for LinkedIn, f

Three Scottish tech businesses have been named on a select list of companies from across Europe to win a place on the AG Elevate tech mentoring scheme run by Addleshaw Goddard. Innovative Chemical manufacturing business CataNiTek, vehicle rental and hire system Coastr, and Frontier Robotics –

Messrs Reeves and Friedman with this study present a modern sociological view of ‘the British elite’. Who are the purported elites, or, following one definition, the ruling minority?

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Critic of Tunisia president gets new jail term | Arab News

A motorist has been fined after being caught driving in a dedicated carpool lane with a plastic skeleton in the passenger seat. The Halloween decoration, spooky enough in itself, was also wearing a mask resembling that of Ghostface in the Scream horror film series.

The latest enforcement actions and supervisory publications by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) indicate the regulator’s renewed interest in market integrity and its expectations on regulated firms to assist it through clear dialogue and reporting, writes Anthony Harrison. Recent enforcem

Connor Beaton talks to Philippa Greer about how UNRWA is battling to preserve international humanitarian law in Gaza, where at least 42,800 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel's military response to the October 7 attack. Philippa Greer had already accepted the top job in UNRWA’s field

A construction company has been fined £215,000 after a worker was seriously injured when a cherry picker was struck by a bus in Castlemilk. North Ayrshire-based McTaggart Construction Limited pled guilty to a breach of construction regulations and health and safety legislation at Glasgow Sheri

The expansion of class action lawsuits is undermining trust in the UK’s business and legal environment, according to a new report by the Adam Smith Institute (ASI).  The increase in class action access and third-party litigation funding has damaged private sector confidence and imposed en

A prisoner linked to serious organised crime who masterminded a covert operation to supply and sell Class A drugs from inside his cell has been handed a jail sentence totalling seven years and five months. Police officers examined mobile phones recovered from drug couriers and found numbers linking

Strathclyde Law School is to welcome Lord Reed to the Technology and Innovation Centre on Monday 28 October to deliver a lecture to mark the 15th anniversary of the Supreme Court. Registrations for the lecture, entitled “Why does the UK Supreme Court matter for Scotland?”, have now ended

British courts' approach to eyewitness evidence is flawed, researchers at Aberdeen University have claimed. A team of researchers led by Dr Travis Seale-Carlisle collated expert opinion gathered from scientists from all over the world on a variety of eyewitness memory phenomena. They found an "almos