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The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined KPMG £13 million for its audits of Silentnight from August 2010 to April 2011. The accountancy regulator announced sanctions against the firm and David Costley-Wood, former partner and head of KPMG Manchester Restructuring.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reported a 20 per cent drop in personal data breach reports, from 11,854 in the 2019/20 financial year, down to 9,532 in the most recent financial year. These figures were published in the ICO’s annual report and analysed by the Parliament S

Further investigations should take place to assess whether lawyers involved in a recent Post Office case in the High Court may have committed professional misconduct in their handling of that case, researchers have said. The Post Office has been robustly criticised for the handling of criminal and c

The directors of an East Kilbride double glazing firm have been disqualified after failing to keep records to explain where £2.4 million of the company bank accounts was spent. Hagit Fieldman, 54, and Gary Fieldman, 58, both of whom now live in Israel, were directors of First For Win

European citizens are being detained and threatened with deportation, despite having applied for settled status – contrary to the Brexit withdrawal agreement. The Home Office has served EU nationals removal directions even though they could prove they had applied for settled status.

Thompsons Solicitors has established a new financial misselling unit. The move follows the firm's work in recent years representing drivers caught up in the “Dieselgate” scandal which saw manufacturers accused of installing technology to falsify emission levels.

A former monk who admitted two charges of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices against boys more than 40 years ago has been sentenced. Denis Alexander was a teacher at a Highland boarding school when the offences took place. His victims were between 12 and 14 years old.

The Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers Association (SEMLA) and NatWest Group are hosting a virtual event called "Less talk, more action: what are we doing to improve ethnic diversity in the legal profession?". The keynote speaker is Ash Denham MSP, who is responsible for the legal profession. The ev

Former diplomat Craig Murray has failed to obtain permission to appeal to the Supreme Court and will be jailed. He was convicted after breaching a court order by writing blog posts about the trial of Alex Salmond.

Scotland's courts are sitting on an estimated backlog of  48,993 cases, figures from the Scottish government show. Overall, there are 42,451 outstanding trials and a further 6,542 cases deemed likely to come to trial. The backlog is double that of pre-pandemic levels. There were 18,355 outstand

Calls have been made for HMP Greenock to be replaced as soon as possible after a leaking roof forced the closure of 40 cells. The prison was built in 1907 and operates at only 75 per cent capacity because of the poor condition of its buildings. A replacement, however, is still a decade away, Wendy S

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Bipartisan Uighur Caucus to check China on human rights abuse

The Faculty of Advocates has condemned comments made by the prime minister once again about the legal profession.  Boris Johnson suggested yesterday that "left-wing criminal justice lawyers" act against the public interest.

The Queen's lawyers lobbied Scottish ministers to amend a bill in order to exempt her private land from an initiative to cut carbon emissions, documents show. 

The average age of barristers has risen substantially in the past three decades, according to a study by the Bar Standards Board. The average age of a barrister in 1990-91 was 38.5 but stood at 46.5 in 2019-20.