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In December 2023, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland (HRCS) published a research report written by Dr Kasey McCall-Smith entitled The Benefits of Incorporating the UN Convention against Torture and other forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment into Scots Law. This report focused on the gaps

The Supreme Court has ruled in three conjoined appeals that persons who witness the death of a close family member in circumstances caused by medical negligence cannot claim compensation for psychiatric injury. The defendants in the cases, two NHS Trusts and a doctor, had applied for the claims to b

The Scottish Sentencing Council’s new sentencing guideline on death by driving offences comes into effect today. It is the country’s first ever offence guideline and the first time that the council has set out guidance to help courts select a specific type and level of sentence. It also

Shoosmiths has announced Kirsten Hewson as its new chair. She will take over from longstanding chair Peter Duff on 1 April 2024.

A conspiracy theorist who accused the government of setting forest fires to make people believe in climate change has admitted setting more than a dozen forest fires. Brian Paré, 38, forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes and destroyed hundreds of hectares of forest by setting the

There were 14,700 community payback orders (CPOs) commenced in 2022-23. This was 20 per cent higher than in 2021-22 but was the third lowest in the last decade, according to figures from Scotland's chief statistician. From 2013-14 to 2019-20, the annual number of orders commenced ranged from 16,500

The UK government plans to redeploy 150 judges in order to fast-track appeals by asylum seekers against deportation to Rwanda, according to reports. The proposed Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will allow the controversial scheme – under which asylum seekers arriving in the UK w

Home Secretary James Cleverly has laid a draft order before Parliament to proscribe the international Sunni Islamist political organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir under the Terrorism Act 2000. If agreed by Parliament, the order will come into force on 19 January 2024. This means that belonging to, inviting

PBW Law has appointed new solicitor Regan Wallace to join its growing team. Mr Wallace holds an LLB from the University of Dundee and obtained his diploma from the University of Strathclyde.

A petition by a company seeking review of a decision by HMRC not to allow it a late claim for Research and Development Credit has been refused by a judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session. Bureau Workspace Ltd argued that HMRC erred in law by refusing to process the claim because it was not

The understandable furore over the malicious dishonesty of those involved in the prosecution, better word persecution, of innocent sub-postmasters by the once trusted Post Office seems to me merely one example of a wider malaise in our present society. Like many bad-tempered old court lawyers, I hav

If he might crave the reader’s indulgence, this idle scrivener would very much like to share his fun idea for an exciting new parlour game or, equally, a pub quiz for the judicially aware at any learned hangout where good claret can be had. A subtle combination of Where’s Wally and Clued

A taxpayer-funded green scheme to replace a Crown Office boiler has been branded "absurd" after it emerged it would take almost a millennium for the costs to be recouped. The price of decarbonising Elgin’s Procurator Fiscal office has risen to £3.5 million.