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A bench of nine High Court judges is considering the Lord Advocate’s References No.2 and No.3 today and tomorrow on whether de recenti statements absent distress are capable of corroborating a complainer's evidence. Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC seeks the court’s opinion on points of law

TikTok is facing a lawsuit from a new group of French parents who believe the video-sharing platform is not doing enough to protect children online. The Algos Victima collective, backed by lawyer Laure Boutron-Marmion, aims to bring together the greatest number of families to bring TikTok before the

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged first notices with the sheriff court to begin the court process for a conjoined fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of David Donnelly and Robert Thomson. David Donnelly, aged 83, died at Hairmyres Hospital on 14 January 2019. Rober

Defence solicitors have begun their first week of industrial action over domestic abuse cases after a collapse in talks with the Scottish government over reform to legal aid. They will also decline to act where an accused has no solicitor and cannot represent themselves – and will not take par

Govan Law Centre (GLC) has accepted instructions and raised proceedings for judicial review in the Court of Session on behalf of a client of the Renfrewshire Head Injury Service (RHIS). In February 2024, Renfrewshire Council (RC) and the Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership (Renfrewshire

A judge in the High Court of England and Wales has dismissed an application by a transgender man seeking a decree of nullity in respect of his purported marriage to a woman in 2009, when he did not have a valid Gender Recognition Certificate, so that he could lawfully marry her again to resolve an i

A piece of land can be a ‘land-locked’ enclave, so as to have a right of way over a neighbour’s property on the basis of necessity, despite the enclave being on the coast and adjoining the foreshore and the sea. Such public rights as there may be over the foreshore and the sea do n

New data from researchers at the University of Birmingham raises questions about whether the public in England and Wales see juries as fair and just, particularly to racial minorities. Experts surveyed 1,000 people and found that most (61 per cent) believe that more diverse juries are fairer, yet ju

A law student who wrote her dissertation on intellectual property rights and the music of Taylor Swift has been profiled by the BBC. Glasgow University student Regan Caie wrote her LLB dissertation on Ms Swift's re-recorded albums and copyright law.

A large percentage of law firms continue to ignore the complaints process and in doing so push up costs for everyone, writes Vicky Crichton.

The Herald has published an obituary for Sheriff Gerard Considine. "Gerard Considine, who has died aged 57, was a respected lawyer who spent his entire legal career specialising in criminal defence work, latterly as a solicitor-advocate. He was also a president of the Glasgow Bar Association an

An appeal against sentence by a repeat offender who was jailed for life with a punishment part of 23 years for murdering his partner while on bail for a different offence has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Christoper McGowan, aged 28 at the time of sentencing, had 57 previous convicti

The complete failure of Police Scotland to perform its role led to a young woman being trapped in a car with her dead partner for days before she too died, a fatal accident inquiry that has taken nine years has found. Lamara bell, 25, lay severely injured but conscious at the bottom of an embankment

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Gaza: The rest of the world sees hypocrisy written into the West’s response