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Under Directive 93/42 on medical devices, a notified body involved in the procedure related to the EC declaration of conformity is not under a general obligation to carry out unannounced inspections, to examine devices and/or to examine the manufacturer’s business records. However, where it is pre

It had to happen. Police have charged a couple with voyeurism by electronic equipment for allegedly sending up a drone to peep into residents' bathrooms and bedrooms in apartment buildings in Utah. Aaron Foote, 39, and his 34-year-old girlfriend, Terisha Lee Norviel, were apprehended after a man saw

The man convicted of the murder of school girl Paige Doherty has had his sentence reduced following an appeal after claiming that the punishment part imposed was “excessive”. John Leathem was sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 27 years after pleading guilty to the murder of

Border by Kapka Kassabova This is a magical book and one of the very, very few to open up the wild and forgotten lands of ancient Thrace that straddle that corner of Europe where Turkey meets Bulgaria and Greece.

Colin Clelland discusses two important points regarding NEC 3 contracts following a recent Court of Session case. In recent years, the NEC 3 form of engineering and construction contract has increasingly been used to procure major engineering and infrastructure projects. It is, however, a contract t

The widow of a scuba diving enthusiast who was killed in an accident will not be able to pursue her claim for damages against the owners and operators of a vessel from which her late husband fell and drowned, but appeal judges ruled that she will be able to sue as guardian to their young child. The

Mike Russell It cost the Scottish government just over £136,000 to intervene in the Article 50 case at the Supreme Court.

Legislation aimed at addressing the frustration caused by overgrown hedges will be examined by the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee.The High Hedges (Scotland) Act came into force in 2013 with the aim of resolving issues with overgrown hedges that interfere with the

The Advocate General has launched an attack on the Law Society of Scotland over its position on Brexit, The Herald reports. The Advocate General has launched an attack on the Law Society of Scotland over its position on Brexit, The Herald reports.

Professor Dame Sue Black and her team at the University of Dundee’s Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) have reconstructed the face of a Pictish man they showed to have been brutally murdered 1,400 years ago. Archaeologists excavating a cave in the Black Isle, Ross-shire, found the

The Scotsman has published a full obituary for Roanne Dods, a dancer, Scots lawyer and arts producer who passed away last month at the age of 52. Ms Dods read law at Edinburgh University and specialised in urgent litigation around family violence before embarking on a creative career and ultimately

A small German town has removed a children's song about a fox stealing a goose from its repertoire of town hall bell melodies, after a vegan resident protested. The picture-book town of Limburg an der Lahn in Hesse entertains its locals with tunes chimed out by its town hall glockenspiel or carillio

Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive of the Scottish Arbitration Centre (pictured), has been appointed co-vice chair for the International Bar Association Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee.

Two board members and a new chair have taken up their posts at the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCR), the organisation that looks into alleged miscarriages of justice. New chair, Bill Matthews, is a former senior executive with Motorola who subsequently spent a number of years in the

Hamish Lean Hamish Lean explains the compensation regime for improvements made during an agricultural tenancy.