A repair and maintenance company has been fined for health and safety failings which left a worker with severe injuries. Shetland-based G & A Leask Limited pleaded guilty to a breach of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 at Lerwick Sheriff Court on 19 April 2023. The company was fined £9,
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White House security yesterday swooped on an unexpected intruder – a toddler who had squeezed through its metal gates. The child has achieved the honour of becoming the first White House intruder since security was beefed up in 2019, NPR reports.
Fox News has reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, a company at the centre of conspiracy theories about the 2020 US presidential election, in what is believed to be the largest-ever defamation settlement involving a US media company. Dominion had sought $1.6 billion in da
The average price of a Scottish property in February 2023 was £180,287, an increase of one per cent on February 2022, the latest provisional statistics from the UK HPI show. Comparing with the previous month, house prices in Scotland decreased by 2.6 per cent between January 2023 and February
An English copyright judge has ruled that the 2019 John Lewis Christmas advert featuring a dragon unable to control its fire did not infringe the copyright of a children’s book author who had self-published a book with a similar premise. Fay Evans, who authored a work titled Fred the Fire-Snee
A tenant of a property in Cambuslang has been refused permission to appeal against his eviction and a payment order by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland after it found that no arguable ground of appeal had been made out. An order for eviction was made against David Hutcheson by the First-tier Tribunal
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of 31-year-old Darryl Goodwin. Mr Goodwin's death occurred on 26 June 2021 while in legal custody on Govan Road, Glasgow. The inquiry is a mandator
Plans to enable councils to raise the amount of council tax paid on empty and second homes will be included in a new consultation to help increase housing availability. First Minister Humza Yousaf will announce proposals at the Scottish Trades Union Congress today which could give councils powers to
Terminally-ill children under the age of 12 will be able to avail themselves of assisted dying in the Netherlands for the first time under a proposed widening of the country's liberal euthanasia regime. Since the early 2000s, Dutch law has provided for euthanasia for adults, children over the age of
Solicitors and law firms are being invited to attend a demonstration of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service’s new Civil Online platform. The new portal has been developed to include the legislative change required for Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2022
A reclaiming motion by a Scottish mother challenging the return of her two children to their father in the USA on the basis of a grave risk defence has been allowed by the Inner House of the Court of Session. Reclaimer SD was the original respondent in an action raised under the Hague Convention on
A software gaffe has sent irate iPhone owners in search of their lost devices to a random family home in Texas. Scott Schuster has spoken to local media about his bewilderment as people keep turning up at his front door in search of their iPhones and AirPods because Apple's "Find My iPhone" app keep
Aberdeen law student Hamza Afzal is one of 10 finalists and the only Scottish student in the running for the Undergraduate Future Lawyer of the Year Awards 2023. The 21-year-old, who is studying Scots law with English law, was one of more than 5,000 entrants from across the UK to take part in the co
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Surge in Iran executions aims to 'spread fear', rights groups say
Nominations are now open for solicitors hoping to join the Law Society of Scotland’s decision-making body, representing members working across the UK. Becoming a member of the Law Society Council provides an opportunity to influence key decisions, contribute to the work of the Society and help
