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Dear Editor I was disappointed to read Douglas J. Cusine’s letter in which he ridicules the campaign to secure a pardon, apology and memorial to those (mainly women) tortured and executed as witches under an Act of Parliament. His comparison with the misfortunes suffered at the hands of R
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A cross-justice initiative in South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway (SSDG) is saving time at court and has already dealt with more than 200 cases. The initiative sees criminal justice and good behaviour reports provided securely by the local authority social work departments and the Crown, 48 hou
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Fishing rights may have been one of the main sticking points of the Brexit negotiations, but not all recent fish-related battles have been waged between Britain and Brussels. In a case that played out much closer to home, the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation (SCFF) challenged the Scottish
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction over Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, a pre-trial chamber has ruled. In a majority decision which it stressed does not represent an adjudication on a border dispute, the Pre-Trial Chamber I ruled that the court's territorial jurisdicti
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CMS has been appointed to advise the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) on the procurement of a new vessel to replace the NLV Pole Star. The Oban-based 52.5m vessel, used for buoy-laying and other core NLB operations, was built in 2000 by Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow.
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Burges Salmon has advised renewable energy investment platform Bio Capital on an £85 million debt financing of its portfolio of UK anaerobic digestion (AD) assets across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The syndicated financing was provided by NatWest, Allied Irish Banks and Banco
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A 100-year-old man who served as a Nazi guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin has been charged with aiding and abetting murder in 3,518 cases.
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If one aims to judge political movements, their deeds are far more important than their speeches, which are often masking rather than revealing.
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A couple has been fined for an outing they undertook – to catch pokémon. Canadians Matthew Steeves and his wife spent the first moment they'd had together in months to steal away together for a game of Pokémon GO in the hopes of finding a Pikachu or two.
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A Scot who practises law in the US has gone to court to overturn an order by Donald Trump intended to protect US military personnel from prosecution. Steven Watt, a senior attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) human rights programme, is part of a landmark legal action against
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Dear Editor I assume that the proposal to pardon witches is a serious one. No doubt, these women suffered injustice, but there have been earlier injustices which ought not to be overlooked.
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A new independent body has been launched to help drive up standards for new-build homes and strengthen protections for buyers across the UK. Members of the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) will oversee the introduction of a new industry code of practice in the months ahead, placing more responsib
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Almost one third of prosecutions made under emergency coronavirus laws have been brought incompetently, leading to hundreds of cases being dropped. New analysis by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) found that 359 of 1,252 charges last year were either withdrawn or quashed in court.
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TLT has supported the Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF) with a successful campaign to create a new law that makes abusing a shop worker an aggravated offence in Scotland. TLT advised the SGF – who first introduced the private member’s bill on 10 October 2019 – on the wording
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Indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
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