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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 76-year-old Peter Tobin. Peter Tobin died on 8 October 2022 at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI). Mr Tobin had been an inmate within HMP Edinbu

Former lord president and Supreme Court justice Lord Hope of Craighead has called for Scotland's new hate crime legislation to be withdrawn, describing it as the result of “gesture politics”. The former judge said the legislation's aims could have been achieved by simply amending Scotlan

A personal injury sheriff has ruled that a pursuer in a road traffic accident claim had, along with the driver of the other vehicle, attempted to perpetrate an insurance fraud and thus was not entitled to reparations. Pursuer Arif Khan raised the action against Mohammad Arshad and his insurer, AXA I

A new play that tells the tale of women's rugby in Scotland premiers this weekend. Sponsored by Levy & McRae, 90 Days was recently highlighted in an episode of the podcast Happiness is Egg Shaped featuring first Scottish women’s rugby captain Sandra Colamartino. Talking about the play she

Switzerland is failing to meet its human rights obligations by not taking sufficient action to tackle climate change, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in a landmark case. The Strasbourg court today handed down judgments in three landmark cases, which represented the first climate

A man who allegedly rubbed his bare buttocks on a public water fountain has been charged with property damage. Police found an incriminating photo after arresting the 56-year-old Tokyo man in connection with a separate incident of public indecency.

Legal figures are among the 2024 cohort of fellows announced by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). Of the 57 new fellows, four are from the law.

TC Young has announced the promotion of two lawyers. Eileen Barr has been promoted to the position of senior associate within the firms Glasgow projects and third sector team.

After much delay, the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill was published on 27 March 2024. Next, it will be scrutinised by a Holyrood committee and voted on by MSPs, probably later this year, writes Dr Mary Neal. Much can (and will) be said about whether this bill is safer for pa

There has been "significant progress" in the proposed settlement over claims of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club. A judge allowed a group claim to proceed against Celtic last year over alleged abuse at Celtic Boys Club, which was established as a feeder to the senior side in 1966.

Strathclyde University's Professor Elisa Morgera has been appointed as a UN special rapporteur on climate change and human rights. She will work closely with UN member states on climate change's impact on people’s human rights.

A lord ordinary has declined to make an order returning an eight-year-old girl to her mother in Russia after she petitioned the court for an order under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction after her father declined to return her. Petitioner TS, a national of Kazakhstan who resided in Chechnya in

Former Supreme Court president, Lord Neuberger, delivered the Aberdeen Law Project's annual lecture on 28 March. His address on “Access to Justice and the Rule of Law” emphasised the need for the community to have access to legal guidance and the importance of ensuring that members of th

On a visit to the Bairns Hoose in North Strathclyde, the lord advocate and the solicitor general have supported calls for a consistent national roll out of the model, to the highest standard possible, so that children and young people are not further traumatised by the care and justice system.