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A salmon farming company has been fined £800,000 after an employee was crushed and drowned when he fell into the water during a boat transfer. Fife-based Mowi Scotland Limited pled guilty to health and safety breaches at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday.

A male partner at a law firm has been ordered to pay £45,000 in fines and costs after singing a “degrading” song to a junior female colleague and making obscene gestures at a Christmas party. The woman, who had been working as a trainee solicitor at the practice in London for three

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has urged peers to challenge the Illegal Migration Bill as it moves to its second reading in the House of Lords today. The characterisation of those arriving by irregular means as "illegal entrants" ignores the fact there are no safe or legal routes ava

A solicitor in Ayr has admitted to defrauding a deceased man's estate of hundreds of thousands of pounds through the use of forged documents, the Ayr Advertiser reports. Lynsay Kelly confessed to embezzling £280,822 from the estate of William Walker Loudoun over a 15-month period between

A commercial judge has ordered a law firm to pay around £12.5 million, inclusive of interest, to a former client after a finding of professional negligence in relation to a failed litigation in which it failed to timeously lodge caution on behalf of the client. Centenary 6 Ltd had sought the s

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 6pm on Wednesday 31 May 2023. The meeting will be held both in-person and virtually (via Zoom). The meeting will be at Burness Paull, Edinburgh (Exchange Plaza, 50 Lothian Road, EH3 9WJ).

The rebellion against the Scottish government’s plans for juryless trials in rape cases has intensified, with lawyers in Aberdeen joining the boycott. Bar associations in Edinburgh and Glasgow have already declared that their members will not participate in the pilot scheme proposed by the Sco

Craig Whyte, the former owner of Rangers, has dropped his £500,000 malicious prosecution claim against the Crown Office. In 2015, he was arrested and charged with taking over the Glasgow football club by fraud. However, he was acquitted two years later following a seven-week trial. Mr Whyte so

A motorist arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of drink driving was allegedly found to have a fake Ukrainian driving license with Boris Johnson's name and photograph. Police in Groningen, in the north of the country, said they arrested a 35-year-old man on Sunday night in the vicinity of an aba

Compass Chambers' Reparation Conference will take place in Glasgow on Friday 2 June 2023 at 200 Conference & Events Ltd (200 St Vincent Street) from 1pm until 5pm and is open to all solicitors, in-house lawyers, trainees and paralegals. Under the Law Society of Scotland's Guidelines, delegates m

The UK government is considering plans to reduce reoffending and address labour shortages in England and Wales by allowing more prisoners to go on day release and work in industries such as construction, haulage, and hospitality. Currently, only a quarter of those leaving prison have a job within si

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Lawyers in Glasgow and Edinburgh have voted to boycott the proposed juryless trials pilot in rape cases. Members of the Edinburgh Bar Association voted overwhelmingly to boycott the measure contained in the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill should they come to fruition.

Dear Editor, Douglas Cusine writes that there is “no evidence” that jurors subscribe to rape myths. He states that the “only way one could get ‘evidence’ would be to sit in during a jury’s deliberations, or interview jurors afterwards” and rightly points out

Neil Beynon considers recent Public International Law (PIL) in respect of the prohibition of a sovereign state acting relative to aircraft and state sovereignty over its airspace.