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An e-bike cyclist who killed an elderly man while riding on the pavement has been sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment suspended for two years for his manslaughter in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in the country. Clifford Cage was riding an e-bike along City Way in Rochester on 6

Military action taken without UN Security Council authorisation or an armed attack on Iran risks undermining the international legal order and widening conflict across the Gulf, lawyers warn in an open letter. The International Bar Association (IBA) and the IBA’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI

The University of Aberdeen Mooting Society will host the finals of the Main Faculty Moot on 19 March. This year’s competition will be judged by Michael D Anderson KC, a graduate of the university and an experienced criminal advocate who was called to the bar in 2006 and took silk in 2022. 

A sheriff conducting a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a mechanical fitter who sustained fatal injuries when he became entangled in the bar of a boring machine has concluded that the accident could have been avoided if his employer had increased the frequency with which it conducted safety

In one of Scotland’s first court cases on the legality of covert monitoring of employees in the workplace, the pursuer, a leading firm of immigration law advisors, conducted extensive surveillance to expose an alleged client-poaching ring amongst its senior in-house solicitor, the first defend

Antoine de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Morès, was the first late modern politician in the West to emerge politically as a populist, an antisemite, and what might now be called a fascist militiaman. That unattractive curriculum vitae reflects the rise politically of Morès by incendiary rhet

An Australian court has reversed pop singer Katy Perry's triumph over fashion designer Katie Perry in a trademark dispute. Katie Perry initially won when she sued the singer for trademark infringement in 2023 – but the ruling was overturned on appeal in 2024.

Ukraine's top court has dismissed a challenge to a ruling which recognised a same-sex couple as a de facto family. Human rights campaigners have welcomed the outcome in the case, which concerned a Ukrainian diplomat posted to Israel and his partner, a civil society activist.

Scottish academics have contributed to a new collection celebrating women in legal history, launched at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Published by Bloomsbury, Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline champions the work of women in legal history and their contributions

Prison officials have confirmed the death of a 19-year-old man at the Polmont Young Offenders Institution (YOI). The death will renew scrutiny of the facility a year after a sheriff determined that the deaths in custody of Katie Allan and William Brown in 2018 could have been avoided.

The UK's consumer protection watchdog has said it is urgently looking into concerns about heating oil price rises linked to the US-Israeli war on Iran. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has "heard a number of concerning reports from consumers who rely on heating oil about their exp

A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is to take place into the death of a 72-year-old prisoner in HMP Inverness in 2024. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for an FAI into the death of John Calderwood Gallagher.

A local authority has lost an appeal before the Sheriff Appeal Court seeking to overturn an order to pay damages to the father of a school pupil seeking rectification of an inaccurate risk assessment document prepared after she experienced bullying, after the court concluded that the sheriff was cor

A judge has ruled against a couple who tried to reclaim a small area of land by planting a garden gnome on it. The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) ruled last week on a years-long dispute between neighbours in Surrey.