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
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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
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.
Stephen McGee, the chief executive of Scottish Friendly, is steering one of the UK’s oldest mutuals into its most transformative chapter in decades. To say that recent and planned developments are seismic would be to state – or rather understate – the obvious. To say that recent an
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.
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
Sex workers have criticised the Scottish government's appointment of a former senior police officer to pave the way for the criminalisation of the purchase of sex in Scotland. Fiona Taylor, a former deputy chief constable of Police Scotland, will lead a new Independent Commission on the Criminalisat
Police Scotland has been fined £66,000 for extracting the entire contents of a person's mobile phone after they reported an alleged crime and then sharing it with a third party who should not have received it. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued the fine and reprimand after find
A fresh bid to split the dual role of the lord advocate will be launched in Westminster today after Scotland's justice secretary urged caution around changing a system she said has "considerable strengths". John Cooper, the Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway, will today introduce a bill under
A group set up to oppose the erection of electricity pylons in Galloway as part of a planned project to replace the area’s electrical infrastructure have lost a petition for judicial review seeking to overturn the grant of permission for the project to proceed after a Lord Ordinary found that
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
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
