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The Supreme Court has upheld decisions rejecting an attempt to allow AI to be named an inventor on a patent application. Dr Stephen Thaler had tried to have his AI, named Dabus, recognised as the inventor of a food container and a flashing light beacon.
A lord ordinary has dismissed a personal injury action by an Aberdeen man who fell off the roof of a portacabin and suffered injuries resulting in tetraplegia after finding that his case under occupiers’ liability law was not made out. Pursuer John Davie suffered the injuries after he had gain
FIFA and UEFA rules which prevented a group of football clubs from establishing a controversial new European Super League are unlawful, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has found. The two Swiss-headquartered associations threatened to impose sanctions on clubs and players who partic
An apprentice digital media executive has been awarded £50,000 after she suffered victimisation and discrimination at work because she found maths "very difficult". Sophie Molyneux sued Apprentify, a firm that sources apprenticeships, after she was fired from a role at a business that trains p
Ireland will take the UK to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over a controversial law ending criminal and civil proceedings related to killings during the Troubles, the Irish government has confirmed. Victims and survivors of the Troubles had urged the Irish government to take the rare ste
Holyrood has backed new laws that will prevent killers from acting as executor on their victim’s estate. MSPs voted unanimously to pass the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Bill, which will close this loophole, allowing a court to remove someone convicted of murder or culpable homicide from a
The Scottish government will not appeal the judgment in the judicial review challenging the UK government’s use of a section 35 order to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. The Supreme Court's ruling means the bill cannot proceed to royal assent and be enacted.
A 20-year-old man charged with having possession of indecent photographs of children has lost an appeal against a trial sheriff’s decision that images recovered from a cloud storage website based in New Zealand accessed using a password found on his smartphone could be led as evidence. The man
Donald Trump has been barred by Colorado's Supreme Court from running for the US presidency in 2024 because of his attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. In an unprecedented ruling, judges held by a 4-3 majority that Trump was necessarily disqualified by the 14th amendment to the US C
Scotland's housing market saw a modest annual increase in average house prices in October.
The Scottish government’s 2024-25 budget continues its distorted and shortsighted approach to criminal justice, according to the Law Society of Scotland. The budget papers reveal an extra £22 million has been provided to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), while the f
A retired couple who sold an African mask for €150 to a second-hand goods dealer who went on to sell it for €4.2 million have lost a legal attempt to undo the deal. The couple, in their 80s, said the dealer had paid them only a fraction of the true value of the 19th century carved woo
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have highlighted that police tasers have been used against children over a hundred times since 2018 as they urged the Scottish government to consider scaling back taser deployment in Scotland. In 2018, Police Scotland doubled the number of officers armed with tasers, d
Following the pausing of the post-pandemic reintroduction of solemn jury trials to the sheriff courts at Lerwick, Kirkwall, Portree, Stornoway, Lochmaddy and Wick, assurances have been given by GEOAmey, the prisoner escort contractors, that they will be able to properly resource the courts from spri
