A judge who admitted offering his 12-year-old daughter up for "partner-swapping" online has been dismissed. Olivier Bailly, 55, has been removed from his post as a vice-president of the law courts in Dijon, the capital of Burgundy.
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The Law Society of Scotland has expressed irritation with the pace of court re-openings as Scotland moves to level 0. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) announced today that it will keep in place the suspension of physical attendance at courts, except in relation to criminal trial diet
Sheriff Joyce Powrie passed away on 8 July at the age of 65. After graduating in law from the University of Dundee in 1977, she completed her apprenticeship with an Edinburgh firm of solicitors and worked in the city until being called to the bar in 1988.
Magic circle law firm Slaughter and May has launched three pilot schemes in recent months for its associates. Under the 'switch on/off' plan, lawyers are allowed to cut their hours over the course of a year by taking blocks of leave that have been agreed in advance, which would result in lower pay.
Calls have been made for serious offences in the military to be tried in civilian courts due to “shamefully low” conviction rates. Ministry of Defence figures obtained by Labour indicate that the conviction rate for rape cases heard by courts martial was six times lower than in civilian
Google has been fined €500 million in France after it failed to comply with an order to come to a fair deal with publishers over using their news content on its platform. The firm ignored a 2020 decision to negotiate in good faith over the display of snippets of articles on Google News, accordi
A lawsuit commenced against a gun manufacturer and a retailer over a shooting in California in 2019 is to proceed following a ruling by a judge in San Diego. The survivors and families of the victims of the shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue have brought a case against Smith & Wesson.
People should be allowed to declare their gender as X on their passports, the Supreme Court will hear today. Christie Elan-Cane, 63, who identifies as non-gendered, will ask the court to declare the ban on the practice to be in breach of human rights.
A hidden luxury property market is thriving in Scotland as agents offer exclusive homes on private lists, The Times reports. The number of properties being publicly marketed has declined, with the latest Registers of Scotland figures showing a 6.5 per cent year-on-year fall.
Cairn Energy claims to have effectively seized Indian state-owned properties in Paris in an attempt to force the country to pay $1.7 billion awarded last year by an international tribunal in The Hague, the Financial Times reports. Its application in France is the first to succeed and the compan
Home Secretary Priti Patel's laws to thwart asylum seekers attempts to cross the Channel were dealt a blow yesterday after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it would no longer prosecute migrants. The agreement made between prosecutors, police, Border Force, the National Crime Agency and the H
Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti, who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels in her high-profile lawsuit against Donald Trump, has been jailed for his role in an attempted extortion scheme. Mr Avenatti was sentenced yesterday to two-and-a-half years in prison following his conviction by a New Y
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The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland has expressed concern over the treatment and care of vulnerable women with mental ill health in Cornton Vale prison. In a new report it highlights the lack of available beds in specific units in Scotland’s mental health facilities and raises critical
A new draft of the cabinet manual needs to be produced as soon as possible for it to remain useful, according to the House of Lords Constitution Committee. In a report published today, the committee has emphasised that as the cabinet manual is now a decade old, it needs to be updated or risk be
