Cyber risk has surged to the top of the business agenda, with 40 per cent of business leaders saying cyber is the top risk they are unprepared for – up from 23 per cent in 2025, according to a new report from accountancy and business advisory firm BDO. BDO’s Global Risk Landscape 2026 re
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Overall, accused persons’ journey times in Scotland’s criminal justice system have decreased over the last year, according to new official statistics "in development" published today by Scotland’s chief statistician. Median journey times, the date an offence is first known to polic
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned financial firms that further action is required to prevent sanctions breaches, despite noticeable progress being made across the industry.
Several Scottish charities are to receive grants using unclaimed funds from the Gutmann v SW Trains legal case (boundary fare class action). The Access to Justice Foundation has announced that it will channel £3.9 million to 16 organisations in regions where class members are based and w
An Audit Scotland report shows that inadequate resourcing is holding back the criminal justice system, according to the Law Society of Scotland. The independent public body responsible for auditing public organisations in Scotland has released a follow-up to its 2023 report on the criminal courts ba
Peter Murrell purchased 108 toilet rolls using SNP funds just two days before Nicola Sturgeon urged the public not to panic buy at the start of the Covid pandemic, court documents show. The former SNP chief executive, who last week admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the party between
The Sheriff Appeal Court has dismissed an appeal against a sheriff’s refusal to allow a pursuer to amend proceedings against a loan provider arising from alleged misrepresentations by a solar panel installer to add his wife as a party, after ruling that she was correct to conclude that the pro
Amey, in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), has expanded its Unlocking Future Connections programme to Scotland’s largest prison, HMP Barlinnie, to "help reduce reoffending by supporting people leaving custody into employment". The initiative forms part of a nationwide program
Legal reforms designed to curb the abusive use of SLAPPs are insufficient to stop the rich and powerful trying to block freedom of speech, a new study warns. Measures in the USA, UK and the EU to stop 'strategic lawsuits against public participation' do not address the deep-seated inadequacies in th
Police in the US state of Nebraska responding to reports of gunfire attended the scene only to find that the perpetrator was a dog. Officers in Scottsbluff found a truck with damage to one of its doors and a woman suffering minor injuries after the dog inside the vehicle accidentally discharged a sh
A personal injury sheriff has disapplied Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting in an action arising from a road traffic accident after finding that the conduct of the pursuer’s solicitors in serving an initial writ including fictitious heads of claim without first checking them with their client ha
Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. US sanctions Tanzanian police official over 'torture' of rights activists
While AI may have some uses in student assessment, relying on it would result in “homogenised” grading that “underestimates brilliance”, according to researchers from Cambridge University. Researchers have used top Generative AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essay
Natalie Livingstone’s vivid retelling of the Nuremberg trials shifts the focus from the Nazi defendants to the remarkable women who witnessed, interpreted, chronicled and shaped the proceedings, revealing how their experiences illuminated the moral, political and human legacy of the twentieth
