Hereditary peers in the House of Lords will become a thing of the past under legislation which has now passed at Westminster. The House of Lords will no longer be up there with Lesotho's Senate among the only legislative bodies in the world with a hereditary element following the passage of the Here
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Last March, I wrote about how AI was reshaping the legal profession and warned firms who failed to embrace it risked being left behind. Today, that warning has become a reality as a new wave of agentic AI moves beyond simple tools to systems that can think, plan and execute multi-step legal work aut
A lord ordinary has declared that the Scottish Prison Service failed to provide appropriate rehabilitative opportunities to a prisoner sentenced to an Order for Lifelong Restriction who was removed from the waiting list for its Self Change Programme after deciding the programme could not address his
A new report has revealed Police Scotland is failing to take the fingerprints of thousands of people it arrests each year. The Scottish biometrics commissioner has today published the findings of a joint review carried out to provide assurance that the "acquisition, retention, use and destruction of
Mediation could play a far bigger role in Scottish civil justice – that was the message from a symposium in Edinburgh last week, bringing together judges, practitioners and international experts. Hosted by University of Strathclyde Mediation Clinic and Scottish Mediation, with support from the
The High Court has begun hearing a civil case brought against former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams by three survivors of IRA bomb attacks in Great Britain. The claimants are suing Mr Adams on the basis of his alleged affiliation with and leadership role in the Provisional IRA, which he deni
Members of three Scottish Parliament committees have urged that a joint approach to the scrutiny of the Scottish government’s work to reduce drug deaths and tackle drug harm must continue following May’s election. A legacy report from MSPs on the Criminal Justice, Health, Social Care and
A Selkirk care company has been fined after a resident choked to death on food that had not been prepared in accordance with his dietary requirements. Selkirk Sheriff Court heard that on 25 May 2023, Thomas Telford, known as Barry, aged 86, choked during lunch at Riverside Healthcare Centre, Bridge
A lord ordinary has refused in hoc statu an insurer’s motion to dismiss a £2.5 million damages claim in respect of a brain injury sustained in an accident involving a car and a motorcycle after finding that, while the pursuer had greatly exaggerated the extent of his injuries and lied to
Three Scots whose convictions were quashed following the Horizon IT scandal have still not been traced, according to a Scottish government report. Legislation introduced last year to overturn convictions linked to the scandal has so far cleared 65 people. The Post Office (Horizon System) Offences (S
A man has been arrested for drug driving in the middle of his driving test. Merseyside Police in England said officers pulled over the 26-year-old after spotting a defective brake light.
A lord ordinary has refused to grant an order for the eviction of a family of travelling showpeople from a site in Govan that the local authority sought to redevelop as part of a masterplan for the area after finding that their occupation of the ground was protected by the Mobile Homes Act 1983. Gla
