The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Alistair Iain Campbell. Mr Campbell, 63, an HGV driver and operator who traded as Alistair Campbell Haulage, died on 15 July 2024 at his operating centre in Glen Mor, Invergarry
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The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to grant summary decree in an action for repossession of residential premises in Dundee after determining that the appellant’s proposed defences consisted entirely of pseudo-legal assertions without a proper basi
With the Scottish government’s Housing Bill moving through Holyrood, one question keeps coming up in conversations with landlords: is it still worth it? Nicky Lloyd, head of lettings at ESPC, considers the bill. The private rented sector in Scotland has always played a vital role in providing
New routes to qualifying as a solicitor in Northern Ireland are set to be introduced in a bid to make the profession more accessible, inclusive and future-focused. The Law Society of Northern Ireland this week published the findings of a consultation it undertook between December 2024 and March 2025
Addleshaw Goddard (AG), which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, has posted record financial performance for the 12 months to 30 April 2025, with an eighth consecutive year of revenue and profit growth. Total revenues at the firm were up 11 per cent from £495.6 million to £5
A teenager who prepared to commit racially motivated acts of terrorism after being radicalised online has been sentenced to a total of 10 years' detention and eight years' extended licence period. The 17-year-old had planned to set fire to a Muslim centre in Greenock after befriending the Imam and m
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israeli settlement plans will 'bury' idea of Palestinian state, minister says
The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on two judges and two deputy prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, French judge Nicolas Guillou and deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan, from Fiji, and Mame Mandiaye Niang, from Senegal, are the lat
Brian Inkster discusses the continued failure to implement alternative business structures in Scotland. Alternative business structures (ABS) in Scotland being kicked into the long grass was a possibility raised yesterday. This was at an online event organised by the Law Society of Scotland: 'Policy
Muslim men who skip Friday prayers face imprisonment for up to two years under new rules introduced in part of Malaysia. The harsh new penalties were introduced in the state of Terengganu – home to 1.1 million people – this week, The Guardian reports.
Terra Firma Chambers in conjunction with SOLAR (The Society of Local Authority Lawyers & Administrators in Scotland) will host a Common Good Conference at The Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close on Monday 29 September 2025. The event will be chaired by Terra Firma’s stable director, Ala
The Lawscot Foundation has increased its annual bursary. As the latest intake of Lawscot Foundation scholars are set to start their university studies in September, the charity’s trustees have agreed to provide existing and future Lawscot Foundation students with an annual bursary of £3,
Former shareholders of oil and gas company YPF have failed in a bid to enforce a $16.1 billion US court judgment against Argentina in the largest claim of its kind ever brought before the Irish courts. Ms Justice Eileen Roberts this week refused the High Court application for enforcement of the reco
Strathclyde Law School is offering scholarships to talented current or prospective mature students studying any taught course in the law school, whether full-time or part-time, undergraduate or postgraduate, who are in acute financial need. You must be 25 years or older at the point of the deadline
A chemical company has been fined £100,000 after one of its workers was permanently scarred from burns from a steam hose at a site in Motherwell. The 23-year-old man was burnt across his back and other areas of his body as he attempted to clean a process water tank on 23 October 2019. At the t
