Lawyers have warned MSPs of the unacceptable risk posed by the proposal for juryless trials in rape cases. Law Society president Sheila Webster appeared before the Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee to provide evidence on the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill
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Pursuer in group of actions allowed to continue case on limited basis despite dismissal of lead case
A lord ordinary has ruled that a case raised by a tenant of flats alleged in a group of actions to have contained harmful gases inhaled by their occupants was not an abuse of process, after it was ruled in the lead case that the defender was not in breach of duty, and allowed her to proceed with her
Vaunted legislation incorporating UNCRC into Scots law falls short of expectations, writes Professor Elaine E Sutherland. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 is something of a disappointment in the light of the ambitious plans that preceded it
With Scotland’s prisoner numbers approaching a record high, Lucy Adams investigates the impact of overcrowding, drugs and suicides on inmates and staff, and asks whether Scotland’s crumbling prison estate can cope much longer in Disclosure: Prisons on the Brink. She meets families g
The University of Dundee will welcome the “thinkers and change-makers of the future” as part of a new, multi-million pound initiative. The university has been awarded £2.15 million that will support 24 postgraduate researchers to achieve their PhDs. Each candidate will have four or
This Friday's memorial Burns Supper organised by Dundee solicitors in memory of the late Billy Boyle has sold out. The event, to be held in the historic rooms of Dundee Burns Club in 37 Union St, Dundee, will begin at 7.30pm.
The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Gregor Deakin. Mr Deakin, 48, died on 6 October 2021 after an accident where a JCB being driven by him fell off the pier at Ardeonaig Hotel, Killin and landed in Loch Tay.
Majority verdicts were introduced in part to dilute the influence of ethnic minority and working class jurors, according to new research. Undertaken by miscarriage of justice charity Appeal, the study found that the rationale for the introduction of majority verdicts in 1967, as opposed to unanimous
A sequestrated person has lost an appeal against a sheriff’s grant of summary decree to recover possession of his property in Edinburgh in the Sheriff Appeal Court after an action was raised against him by the trustee in sequestration. Thomas MacLennan, the trustee in sequestration of appellan
A new two-part documentary series, Murder Trial: The Killing of Dr Brenda Page, focuses on the trial of one of Scotland’s most prolific unsolved murders and a family’s quest for justice. In July 1978, Dr Brenda Page, a 32-year-old leading scientist at Aberdeen University was brutally mur
Dear Editor, All power to Alistair Bonnington’s elbow in suing TV Licensing. It would not surprise me if their argument was that there had been some unfortunate mistake, thus suggesting that Alistair’s experience is an exception.
Defence lawyers are preparing to boycott the pilot scheme for juryless rape trials. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) is to ballot members on the new proposal contained in the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill.
The recommendations of an independent group set up to advise on how Scotland’s museums and galleries can better reflect the country’s role in empire, colonialism, and historic slavery have been fully accepted by the Scottish government. Established following a motion in the Scottish Parl
An appeal by the owners of a whisky ageing facility in Bonnybridge against a lord ordinary’s decision that a couple in Bonnybridge had pled a relevant case of nuisance against them has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. Thomas and Gail Chalmers originally raised the actio
