The Inner House of the Court of Session has ruled that the Scottish Information Commissioner was correct to determine that the Scottish ministers held information stored in a restricted system for an independent advisor concerning an investigation into whether former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon h
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The latest Apple Watch is being pulled from US shelves at the height of Christmas shopping season due to a David v Goliath patent dispute. The move comes after the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled in October that Apple infringed on the patents of medtech company Masimo in relation to th
The Faculty of Advocates has been ordered to pay compensation to a woman who reported Brian McConnachie KC for misconduct over texts he sent to her, the Daily Record reports. The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) said that the Faculty had failed to properly investigate Mr McConnachie, who
The EU has opened formal proceedings against X, formerly Twitter, following concerns about disinformation, poor content moderation and other alleged breaches of the bloc's new digital services law. The announcement yesterday marks the first investigation of its kind under the landmark Digital Servic
Spiking will be clearly defined in English law under UK government plans to protect women and girls from violence and abuse. The forthcoming Criminal Justice Bill will put beyond doubt that spiking is illegal and will be backed with separate guidance, set in law, to provide a clear, unequivocal defi
The number of daily subscribers to Scottish Legal News has exceeded 17,000 for the first time after more than 1,700 new subscribers signed up to our free daily newsletter in the last year. Established in 2008, SLN has steadily grown over the last 15 years to attain saturation circulation in Scotland
SKO in Edinburgh are joining with the founder of the Centre for Individual and Family Identity (CIFI) to hold a seminar early next year highlighting the needs that arise when people are thinking of, or creating families through Donor Conception and/or Surrogacy. Families created this way face the sa
A writer of Lord of the Rings fan fiction has failed in a copyright case over the publication of his own sequel to the series. Demetrious Polychron published The Fellowship of the King in September last year. He described it as a “pitch perfect” follow-up to the original trilogy.
A Fife man who shared extremist hate material from a banned right-wing terror group online has been fined a total of £840. Colin Webster, 62, of Kelty, was found guilty of an offence under terrorism legislation following a trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal by the purported owner of a disputed piece of scrubland on the Ardnamuchan peninsula against a sheriff’s determination that the owners of adjoining land had in fact acquired it in 1992 when they purchased a farm there.
Climate groups are launching two legal cases in the Court of Session to block a decision by UK ministers to grant permission to drain fossil fuels from the Rosebank oilfield. Uplift and Greenpeace UK are attempting to overturn the UK government's decision to permit the development of the oilfield &n
Allowing asylum seekers the right to work could help them settle into communities better while boosting Scotland’s economy and workforce, according to the Scottish government. Research by the government’s independent Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population sets out how enabling
A cardinal who was in charge of Vatican funds between 2011 and 2018 has been convicted of embezzlement – becoming the first cardinal to stand trial in the Holy See's criminal court. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once a former contender for the papacy, was sentenced to five-and-a-half years
A final appeal by an American man who had resisted his extradition to the USA on the basis that he was not the person named in two extradition requests has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Nicholas Rossi challenged the decision of the Scottish ministers to extradite him for trial in the
Justice Secretary Angela Constance has refused to reveal the public cost of a probe over a sheriff's fitness for office. Ms Constance said the costs over the investigation of Sheriff Jack Brown, who behaved inappropriately towards a female lawyer, would remain undisclosed until the probe had conclud
