A group of police officers are to launch legal action after they suffered hearing damage during Bonfire Night. Some 20 officers have sought legal advice and are working with the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) after Police Scotland failed to provide them with adequate ear protection.
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Russia violated the rights of a schoolteacher who was sacked in 2014 over social media posts including photos of her kissing other women, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The teacher, AK, began working as a music teacher in a state school for children with special needs in her home town
A six-part TV drama based on the 2018 Belfast rugby rape trial is reportedly in production. Ireland and Ulster rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were acquitted in March 2018 following a high-profile trial in which they were accused of raping a woman in Belfast in 2016.
The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) is gathering feedback from users to improve its services. As part of its commitment to providing an inclusive and accessible service, SCTS would like to speak with people who work in the legal profession who have a disability or accessibility needs.
The US capital has said it can no longer afford to pay lawyers representing poor defendants on Wednesdays. As a result of a budget crisis, all 120 public defenders in Washington DC will be forced to take an unpaid day off once per week, normally a Wednesday, NBC Washington reports.
Average selling prices have experienced a small overall rise, with variation across the regions. The average selling price of property across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders during February-April 2024 was £269,963, which is 1.5 per cent higher than the same time the previous year
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has welcomed the ruling from the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) on an appeal from Join the Triboo Limited. The online recruitment firm appealed a fine of £130,000 and an enforcement notice issued by the ICO in April 2023 for s
Blackadders LLP is to support the Digital Xtra Fund to help young people in Scotland gain access to innovative and digitally creative activities. Funds raised by the charity Digital Xtra are awarded to schools and community groups across the country, providing kit and extracurricular activites to in
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have urged Scottish ministers to "get serious" over the challenges facing policing as new figures reveal that police officer numbers are now at their lowest level in more than a decade and a half. The Scottish government’s Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statis
The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by stated case against a sheriff’s decision to evict a debtor from her family home and give a trustee in bankruptcy the authority to sell the property in a long-running sequestration dispute. Gordon Maclure, an insolvency practitioner appointed tr
A GMB union judge member’s challenge in a ‘secret soundings’ case is to take place next month. A member of GMB union’s J25 Judicial Branch has received a date for their legal challenge to the use of ‘secret soundings’ when deciding on the appointment of judges in
A solicitor has been fined £2,000 after he was found guilty of professional misconduct by the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT). Kevin John Boyd, 62, of Mathie Morton Limited, in Alloway Place, Ayr, was found to have delayed an executry for a man’s estate by more than four-
At least 56 miscarriages of justice have occurred in England and Wales in which the jury was split, according to a charity that wants jury unanimity reintroduced. A report by Appeal found that majority verdicts “arguably dilute the principle of reasonable doubt” and have enabled miscarri
The climate action plan devised by the UK government is unlawful, the English High Court has ruled. There is not enough evidence of policies in place that would actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the court said.
