The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) welcomed the minister for victims and community safety, Siobhian Brown MSP, to its offices yesterday to hear about work underway to improve Scotland’s legal services regulation and complaints system. This comes as the first provisions of the Regu
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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a review of private dentistry in all four parts of the UK. Demand for private dentistry has risen sharply in recent years, with one in five people in Great Britain using private dental care in 2024.
A shoplifter whose struggle with a store security guard caused him to suffer a fatal heart attack has been jailed for five years and four months. Natasha Smith, 38, was prevented from leaving the Asda superstore in Arbroath by 61-year-old Alun Harris-Richards and another shop worker amid suspi
The Financial Conduct Authority has fined Wood Group £13 million after concluding that a "poor operating culture" at the Aberdeen-based engineering firm led it to publish misleading financial information to investors over a three-year period.
Tax evasion should be treated as a form of corruption if financial criminals are to be held accountable, a new study argues. Experts warn that without stronger enforcement, and clearer rules on corporate liability, the UK will continue to struggle to prosecute tax offences effectively.
The Supreme Court has rejected the Kingdom of Spain’s long-running attempts to invoke state immunity to prevent renewable energy investors registering their 2018 ICSID arbitration award in England. Infrastructure Services Luxembourg and Energia Termosolar, the investors, are owed €120 mil
On Monday 16 March, JUSTICE Scotland will host two events exploring the impact of human rights and the rule of law. A panel discussion in the afternoon will examine the European Convention on Human Rights and its impact in Scotland. Chaired by Angela O’Hagan (chair of the Scottish Human Rights
A lord ordinary has granted decree of absolvitor to a partnership of solicitors and to its individual partners in a claim raised against them for damages following the purchase of the ground floor of a tenement for use as a beauty salon, after finding that they could not be held responsible in law f
Holyrood has unanimously approved measures enshrining the right of care home residents to contact with family and friends. Anne’s Law was developed following the pandemic, when restrictions on care home visits had a significant impact on residents’ health and wellbeing, but will also app
A serving prisoner convicted of possession of an improvised bladed article in his prison cell at HMP Perth has lost an appeal against his conviction on the basis of prejudice and misdirection by the trial judge after she initially gave the jury a direction on another offence of possession of a weapo
Lord Burrows has reflected on his experience as the first full-time academic appointed directly to the Supreme Court in a talk delivered at Oxford University. He described the shift from specialist scholarship to generalist judging, the court’s strong culture of collegiality – with
The Lands Tribunal for Scotland has refused an application by Murrayfield Curling Ltd to relax title conditions restricting summer use of its rink, holding that predictable control of shared access and event planning justified their retention. The ice rink was built at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, in the
The Court of Session ruled that a children’s hearing failed to consider the best interests of a sibling affected by its decision, as required by Article 3 of the UNCRC. The judgement confirms that hearings must treat the welfare of all impacted children as a primary consideration and clearly r
