A 15-year-old girl has admitted carrying out a knife attack on a 12-year-old pupil at an Aberdeen school. The teenager, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to assault to the danger of life following the incident at Hazlehead Academy on 24 April last year. She was 14 at
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The Sheriff Appeal Court has held that there is no competence for an appeal against a sheriff’s refusal to sign a warrant for an initial writ after a man attempted to challenge the refusal of his case against his neighbour, after finding that the refusal could not constitute a final judgment i
The number of personal injury claims made following road traffic collisions is in sharp decline, writes Thomas Mitchell. Data from the government’s Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) revealed that only 63,833 claims were registered with the CRU in the fourth quarter of 2025. This is down 24 per
Families of the 29 people killed in the RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre have welcomed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's agreement to meet them, describing it as a “significant and long overdue step” towards truth and accountability. The commitment came after Tessa Munt raised th
The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by an unincorporated association operating a timeshare in Tenerife against the refusal of its action for specific implement calling for a trustee of the Club to resign after finding that the sheriff was entitled to conclude on the evidence that the defe
Four men who carried out a multi-million-pound VAT payroll fraud to fund their affluent lifestyles have been sentenced to more than 22 years in prison. Martin Lang, 68, Graeme Cullen, 54, Leslie Thompson, 63, and Graham Newall, 49, acted in concert to commit their crimes.
Dundee Sheriff Court must make “urgent” improvements to privacy and ventilation in its custody unit, inspectors have said. A report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIPS), following a visit to the court custody unit (CCU) on November 6 last year, found the facility to be clean, generally
A Sheriff Principal has refused permission to appeal to the Court of Session against a decision of the Sheriff Appeal Court that an action for defamation raised by a pursuer against one of his former work colleagues was time barred after upholding the principle that an action was only considered com
The Scottish Liberal Democrats said they would recruit more mental health specialists who can work alongside police officers and help them attend mental health incidents. Figures show that Police Scotland officers are now attending 14,500 mental health incidents a month. The organisation says that d
Body-worn cameras used by Police Scotland officers have recorded more than 864,000 incidents since their national rollout began in March last year, new figures show. The force said nearly 174,000 hours of footage have been uploaded, with more than 55,000 media files shared with prosecutors.
A 54-year-old man suspected of drink-driving told officers he did not need a licence and did not drive at all when approached in a liquor store car park, according to police. Officers in Vancouver, Canada, were called to the scene on April 8 following reports of a potentially impaired driver and fou
