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The law must be toughened up to make intentionally deceiving a person into engaging in sexual activity a crime, according to a new report published today. The latest Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRN Network) report calls for a change to the law, which would make deceiving a person to induce the
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A farmer has been acquitted of culpable homicide by failing to maintain a tractor and trailer that sped out of control down a hill and crushed a motorist to death and seriously injured two others.
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A grey-haired banker who complained about being nicknamed “Christine Lagarde” has failed in a £4.6 million discrimination claim after a judge ruled that jokes about grey hair were “part of the irritation of day-to-day office life”. Elisabeth Maugars joined the London of
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The Scottish branch of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), a global intellectual property association, has unveiled a programme of events for 2023. The programme will offer intellectual property and technology professionals, and all those with an interest in commercialising IP, the opportunity t
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The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal against a sheriff’s decision that an application for a financial award by a former cohabitant was made timeously by virtue of being lodged with the sheriff court before the deadline, even if it had not been served on the defender in that period. P
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TikTok has been fined €5 million by France's data protection watchdog over violations of EU cookie rules. Regulator CNIL said users of the tiktok.com website could not refuse cookies as easily as accepting them, and were not informed in a sufficiently precise manner of the purposes of different
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A Dunbartonshire company director has been disqualified for eight years after his firm instigated 193 million automated calls and failed to pay a £500,000 fine.
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Tuesday 7 February9.45am - 3.30pmRoom 207, No.10 The SquareUniversity of Glasgow An event featuring presentations and panel discussions exploring ideas relating to the influence and impact religion may have on corporate social responsibility is being held next month at Glasgow University.
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Dear Editor It would be difficult to disagree with Russell Findlay’s obvious concerns about the malicious prosecution scandal and the enormous cost to the public and, I would suggest, damage to the reputation of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
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A Glasgow sheriff has dismissed an action by a television production company that sought over £1 million in potential lost profits arising from a TV channel’s decision to cancel a sports magazine show that it produced for it. PLZ Soccer Ltd, which produced 19 episodes of a programme titl
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The Law Society of Scotland has stepped in to ensure that clients are protected while appropriate managerial arrangements are put in place to cover the absence of a director at Hendrie Legal Limited. The Law Society’s petition for a judicial factor on the client account of the practice was gra
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All legal businesses listed on the London Stock Exchange saw their share prices fall last year — with one tumbling by as much as 85 per cent. There are six listed legal services businesses, all of which performed poorly despite the broadly stable overall market, The Times reports.
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A couple is set to go to court in defence of a rooster who has racked up thousands in fines for crowing too loudly. Jackie and Drew Tanenbaum, from Maryland, have been fined $4,800 (around £4,000) over Wilbur the rooster's crowing following a neighbour's complaints, local TV channel WTKR News
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Scottish justice has become “contaminated” by the malicious prosecution scandal and should be scrutinised by a judge from another jurisdiction, an MSP has said. Russell Findlay's appeal followed reports by The Times that the Rangers-supporting sheriff, Lindsay Wood, who granted numerous
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