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Legislation has been passed giving more powers to police and courts to protect people at risk of domestic abuse. The Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill aims to enable police and courts to ban suspected abusers from re-entering the home and from approaching or contacting the person at risk f
On Thursday 25 March, the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland will host a webinar exploring some of the discrimination issues that could arise for workers now and in the coming months. The end of lockdown is on the horizon and with that various employment-related issues which could give ri
Holyrood has voted to directly incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law. MSPs voted unanimously for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill to become law, meaning public authorities will have to co
More than 350 sheriff solemn cases were concluded in February, which is 82 per cent of the pre-Covid level. Figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service show that during the month of February:
Calling someone “old-school” is not necessarily ageist, a tribunal has ruled in a dispute involving an employee's preference for uppercase letters. Lydia Roganovic, 50, insisted on publishing social media tags in capital letters when she worked at iplato Healthcare Ltd in London.
Thieves, robbers and burglars will be given GPS tags to track their whereabouts when they are released from prison in order to curb re-offending. Data from tags will let police check details of burglaries against movements of known offenders to determine whether they might be suspects.
The Lord Advocate must not be permitted to “mark his own homework” over the botched Rangers fraud prosecution which has resulted in compensation of more than £20 million paid to the victims of the malicious prosecution, a court has heard. Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop QC, said his
The Civil Recovery Unit is to recover £6.46 million under proceeds of crime legislation after an Aberdeen company accepted it had benefited from unlawful conduct. WGPSN admitted one of its subsidiaries, PSNA Limited, had benefitted from payments made to Unaoil to secure contracts in Kazakhstan
As you noted on 12 March, a sheriff in Dumbarton had said that a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a seaman had been hampered by a decade of delay on the part of the Crown. What is particularly worrying is that in a newspaper report there is mention of another case in which there was also a 1
The stage three debate on a bill to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) directly into Scots law will take place today. If passed, the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill will mean public authorities will be bound by law to uphold the rights of children and young people
Spain could become one of the first countries to trial a four-day working week after the government agreed to launch a pilot project for interested companies. Earlier this year, the small leftwing Más País party announced that the government had accepted its proposal to pilot
The cladding crisis in Scotland will be the subject of a free online seminar this week. On Thursday, 18 March, from 6-8pm, Watermans Legal will be joined by a panel of industry experts who will cover a wide range of topics associated with the cladding crisis.
Four out of five last-minute legal claims brought by illegal immigrants in an attempt to avoid deportation are eventually rejected, according to the Home Office. An analysis of people detained since 2017 has found more than 70 per cent made new claims or legal appeals days before they were due to be
The European Union is to take legal action today against the UK over its unilateral attempt to change the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol, RTÉ News reports. The European Commission will issue legal proceedings in a letter to the UK government, after its decision earlier this month to u
