The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), responsible for investigating possible miscarriages of justice, is set to review the case of Andrew Malkinson. Mr Malkinson wrongly served 17 years behind bars for a rape conviction.
Search: 零加TOYZEROPLUS最新财务数据
Law Society of Scotland president Sheila Webster has offered her congratulations to 18 new sheriffs appointed on the recommendation of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. She said: “Congratulations to this worthy group who will be stepping up as full-time sheriffs from next month. I&
England: Legal Services Board to review regulators’ enforcement tools– including financial penalties
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has announced plans to review the enforcement and investigative tools available to the legal services regulators, including the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). This could include increasing financial penalties available to regulators, as well as enabling regulat
A career criminal who acted as a “wages” paymaster to elite gangland figures and their families has been jailed for four years and eight months. Surveillance officers watched Gerard McTaggart, 47, of Glasgow, delivering bags containing thousands of pounds in cash to several locations lin
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released its annual report on work-related ill-health and injury statistics for the period ending 2022/23. The report states that work-related fatalities rose in 2022, increasing by 10 per cent to 123. 26 of those deaths occurred in Scotland. Once again, the
When President Higgins last month made an unprecedented political intervention in defence of Irish neutrality, Conor Gallagher must have been jumping for joy. The Irish Times correspondent's new book – Is Ireland Neutral? The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality – could not have been better ti
The UK government has committed to integrating mediation in the court process for small civil claims valued up to £10,000, starting with specified money claims – which make up 80 per cent of small claims. This could include claims such as a homeowner suing their builder for failure to de
From 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. As a result of their disgraceful work between November 1678 and July 1681, at least 17 Catholics, lay and clergy, died as traitors on the scaffold, and not in the easiest of circumstances. Many o
Clare Lamond has been promoted to legal director at Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) in Edinburgh. Her promotion is one of a number across the firm's UK offices.
The Illegal Migration Bill will effectively extinguish the right to seek asylum in the UK, say lawyers who have examined the proposed legislation on behalf of human rights charity, Freedom from Torture. Key aspects of the bill are incompatible with the UK’s international obligations under the
Michael Upton, FCIArb, advocate, mediator & arbitrator, discusses an aspect of the Scottish Law Commission’s Discussion Paper No. 175, on Heritable Securities: Non-monetary securities and sub-securities, to which the commission is now seeking responses. As you may know, in the context of h
In 2019, Gillian Treasurer was on the cusp of moving from Wales to take up the coveted role of Scottish Rugby Union’s legal head when she got news that turned her world upside down. “For about a year I’d been feeling absolutely exhausted and quite ill and the day before I left Wale
A law firm in Glasgow’s Southside is expanding as it acquires a long-established practice in the city. MacDonald Lynch, based in Mount Florida, has announced the acquisition of Archer Coyle, a family firm of solicitors located in the Muirend area of the city.
There is no shortage of books about some politicians but Winston Churchill seems to be in a separate category from the others. When Churchill: Walking With Destiny (Allen Lane, 2018) by Andrew Roberts (now Lord Roberts of Belgravia) was published that biography, at 1,105 pages, was said to be the 1,
A man who was convicted of assaulting another man with his own machete in a struggle outside his flat has lost an appeal against the conviction in the High Court of Justiciary. Counsel for appellant Ryan Platt argued that the trial judge had misdirected the jury in telling them that the defence main
