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The European Union and Ukraine have acceded to the Hague Judgments Convention, which sets out conditions for the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. The Convention was drawn up in 2019 and has been signed by six states, but the EU and Ukraine are the first state

Two pilots were suspended after getting into a fist-fight while climbing thousands of feet in the air, it has emerged. The Air France pilots were disciplined after the incident in June, according to a damning report published by France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA)

Police officers have been told to reveal to their bosses the identities of news reporters, according to The Guardian. The measure, already used by some police forces, follows guidance from the College of Policing and was only discovered by accident.

Academics have called for judges to stop directing juries to take body language into account when assessing the credibility of witnesses. Sixty-four mock juries were set up for research, featuring a total of 863 participants. Half of them were shown a recorded rape trial while the remainder were sho

Major law firms in the City of London are in the middle of a recruitment boom with a sharp increase in vacancies, according to a recruiter. JMC Legal said there are currently 2,680 vacancies for lawyers, a 14 per cent rise on the previous year, with an even larger 58 per cent rise in in-house openin

Andy Hornby and James Crosby, the former HBOS bosses who were under investigation for their part in the failure of banking group in 2008, have been let off without penalty. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have completed protracted joint investigat

Two Scottish universities have begun paying settlements to students who were sexually abused by a disgraced academic. Strathclyde University and Heriot-Watt University have paid five-figure sums to at least two victims of professor Kevin O'Gorman, with payouts expected to total hundreds of thousands

A rapist who beat and tortured several partners has been jailed indefinitely after posthumous testimony from two victims. Unemployed Alexander Thomson, 42, of Broxburn, West Lothian, was made the subject of an order for lifelong restriction at the High Court in Glasgow on Friday.

Former MSP Tommy Sheridan has been declared bankrupt after failing to pay over £82,000 in legal costs arising from his failed judicial review against the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). Mr Sheridan was jailed for three years in 2011 after being found guilty of lying in evide

Paul Cackette, the former head of the Scottish government's legal directorate and chief reporter of the directorate of planning and environmental appeals, has been appointed to support an urgent review of Ireland's planning body. The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) this week announced the urg

Amnesty International has condemned moves by Russian-backed armed groups to try Ukrainian prisoners of war in a so-called "international tribunal" in Mariupol as illegal and abusive. Reports and pictures shared on social media appear to show cages being built inside the Mariupol Philharmonic Hall to

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Arrest of Russian bar leader condemned | The Law Society Gazette

English solicitors could be given more advocacy rights under UK government plans to break the barristers' strike, according to reports. The Daily Mail quotes a government source as saying ministers "are looking to give more solicitors higher rights of audience to broaden the work they can do, increa

World-famous sprinter Usain Bolt has applied to register his "distinctive" victory celebration pose as a trade mark in the United States. His application to the US Patent and Trademark Office is for a logo showing the silhouette of a man "with one arm bent and pointing to the head, and the other arm

Kenyan tribes who were violently forced from their land to make way for tea plantations have launched proceedings against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights. The Talai and Kipsigi tribes, represented by lawyer Joel Kimutai Bosek, are seeking £168 billion in compensation and a formal