Scotland’s chief statistician has released figures on recorded crime in Scotland for the year ending December 2023. The police in Scotland recorded 302,076 crimes in the year ending December 2023. This was five per cent higher than the 287,678 crimes recorded in the year ending December 2022,
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A City law firm has said it will pay some junior lawyers up to $2 million each over three years. Partners at Pogust Goodhead recently made a $550m investment deal with an American fund manager – the biggest investment ever in an English law firm.
Dear Editor, Stuart Munro's comprehensive and informed article on the current state of the Horizon scandal lucidly illustrates the shameful position which we have reached in Scotland.
February 2024 saw the publication of the latest output of a long-running collaboration between the Signet Library and the Edinburgh Legal Education Trust, beginning in 2010 and which has overseen the publication under the imprint Old Studies in Scots Law of an important series of facsimile reprints
Documentary series Murder Trial is to return to screens this year and will focus on two new cases – the deaths of Caroline Glachan and Ean Coutts. Caroline Glachan was a 14-year-old schoolgirl whose body was discovered on the banks of the River Leven in Renton on 25 August 1996. Caroline&rsquo
The Outer House of the Court of Session has rejected a challenge to a will made by an Edinburgh man two days before his death following a wedding ceremony conducted in his flat after his son alleged that the signature on the document had been forged. The first defender, Thorntons Trustees Ltd, relie
Building fairer, safer and more equitable societies for women and girls will be under the spotlight at an event being held to mark International Women’s Day next month. Professor Kezia Dugdale, director of the John Smith Centre, will be joined at the event in conversation by Helena Kennedy KC,
A former teacher who was placed on the sex offenders register after having a relationship with a 17-year-old pupil has started a charity to help people with convictions move on with their lives. Eppie Sprung was struck off the teaching register in 2012 after it came to light she had had a sexual rel
A lord ordinary has found that a man living in England who livestreamed accusations that two brothers were involved in organised crime in Greenock was in contempt of an interdict issued by the Court of Session in May 2023 ordering him to cease defaming them. The respondent, Paul Hendry, had attempte
Lawmakers in Germany have voted to approve the partial legalisation of cannabis. The legislation advanced by the country's ruling coalition was backed by 407 parliamentarians. 226 voted against the bill and only four abstained.
Trump supporters have begun crowdfunding $355 million to cover a penalty imposed on the former president by a New York court — and have raised just over $1 million so far. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay the eye-watering $354.8m sum in damages after finding that he and his sons fraud
A ban on the sale and supply of single-use vapes in Scotland is due to come into effect on 1 April 2025, under proposed legislation published today. The move takes forward the recommendation to ban single use vapes from a consultation on ‘Creating a Smokefree Generation and Tackling Youth Vapi
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Detained Saudi activist 'cut off' from family contact
Emma Curryer (lecturer in law) and Gillian Mawdsley (associate law lecturer, Criminal Justice Clinic, and the Open University) explain the details of vicarious trauma training. For students who were undertaking our pro bono clinical legal education project, we identified a need for providing vicario
