After senior Scottish lawyer John Watt is convicted on historic child abuse charges, Disclosure speaks to his victims and explores how he hid his crimes for decades. The former prosecutor and defence lawyer was found guilty in July last year of sexually abusing children on various occasions between
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Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull has been appointed as a senator of the College of Justice in one of a number of judicial appointments made by His Majesty The King on the recommendation of the first minister. The new judge will take up post on 17 May 2023.
Children who were conceived through rape will be recognised as victims of crime in landmark new legislation in England and Wales. The UK government yesterday announced it will amend its upcoming Victims Bill to clarify that these children are entitled to support from criminal justice agencies such a
Iran is to execute a 35-year-old mentally ill man on charges including apostasy and “insulting holy things”. Javad Rouhi, a law graduate, is accused of burning the Quran as part of the protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.
Bringing cake to the office might make you popular, but is as harmful to your colleagues as passive smoking, the head of the UK's Food Standards Agency has said. Professor Susan Jebb told The Times that people tend to "undervalue the impact of the environment" in making choices.
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Scottish court staff are to strike over pay next month. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said bar officers and clerks employed at sheriff courts will stop working on February 1 in protest at low pay.
A doctoral student researching the 18th century Scottish Highlands & Islands has won the Rosebery Prize. Juliette Desportes, a student at Glasgow University, was awarded the prize for her transcription of Petition and Complaint by Roderick Mackenzie (1756).
A home economics teacher in a Perth school who made a discrimination claim against her employer based on its response to her complaints of being subject to racially motivated abuse by pupils has had her claim dismissed by the Employment Tribunal. The teacher, who described herself as of Scottish nat
A concert venue contractor is facing a lawsuit from a woman who drove home drunk and blew up four houses. Canadian woman Daniella Leis, 26, severed a gas line when she crashed her car on the way home from a Marilyn Manson concert, leading to an explosion which destroyed four homes.
The rule of law should be put at the centre of new efforts to define Britishness and Britain’s place in the world of the 21st century, a think-tank says today. The Social Market Foundation said that Britain’s trusted legal system and tradition of fair play can help bind together the nati
Russia has been censured by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for failing to provide legal recognition and protection for same-sex couples. In a Grand Chamber judgment handed down on Tuesday, the court held by a 14–3 majority that Russia had violated Article 8 of the European Con
Three former lawyers and two other men who masterminded a £1.48 million bank and property money-laundering operation have been jailed for a total of 30 years and four months. Solicitors Iain Robertson, Alastair Blackwood and David Lyons along with Mohammed Aziz and Robert Ferguson, were handed
An appeal by a landlord against a payment order for £6,000 under the Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011 has been allowed by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland after he successfully argued that he ought to have been given an opportunity to make representations. Appellant Shoukat K
A distinguished Pakistani lawyer was shot dead at Peshawar High Court on Monday. Latif Afridi, a champion of human rights who took on the Taliban and the country's notoriously powerful military, was shot six times at point-blank range.
