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Rachel Hayes, Leo Moore and Aoife Keenan – of Irish law firm William Fry – explain the key features of the EU's Digital Identity Wallet. The Regulation (EU) 2024/1183, which establishes the European Digital Identity Framework (EUDI Regulation), came into force in May 2024 and will take l

A Holyrood committee has backed another prisoner release scheme amid warnings of an “emergency situation” in Scotland’s prisons.

The High Court of Justiciary has ruled that an accused who was taken into custody at his workplace and then searched by the police at his home address, for which they had a warrant, had not been subjected to an unlawful search, following a preliminary minute challenging the admissibility of evidence

Thomas Ross KC examines the collapse of the Bayoh inquiry. The resignation of Lord Bracadale from his position as chair of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry after 122 days of evidence – followed by the mass resignation of all the counsel to the inquiry three days later – no doubt led the public to

A multi-national company has been fined £176,000 for failing to prevent excessive smoke and noise pollution at the Mossmorran petrochemical plant in Fife. ExxonMobil Chemical Ltd pled guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to breaching pollution control regulations at the Cowdenbeath plant on vario

Gibson Kerr has welcomed Phil Bonnar as a senior associate in the family law team, Emma Kennie as a purchase & sale negotiator and appraiser in the property team, and Faye Lipton as a senior solicitor in the family law team. Briege Valentine has also been promoted to senior solicitor in the firm

A trio from Holmes Mackillop Solicitors is all set to raise funds for The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice by going on the run under cover of darkness at the John Muir Way Nocturnal Ultra Marathon on Saturday 8 November. The challenge is ‘simple’: runners have six hours to complete

The number of arrests and inspections targeting illegal workers in Scotland has risen sharply over the past year, with new Home Office figures showing a near 30 per cent increase. Between October 2024 and September 2025, Immigration Enforcement officers arrested more than 350 illegal workers and car

A woman due to serve a prison sentence in Lithuania for the murder of her youngest daughter has lost a challenge to her extradition based on her mental health diagnosis and the effect of her retrial in a Scottish prosecution on the amount of time she had served in custody. Ineta Gavenaite, who had p

Pedestrians are to be fined for speeding if they walk or run faster than six kilometres per hour in Slovakia. The new speed limit was agreed in the Slovak parliament yesterday through an amendment to new road traffic legislation, according to Swiss website Bluewin.

A rapist who drugged two women before sexually abusing them while they were incapacitated has been jailed for nine years. Kenan Baki spiked the drinks of both women after meeting them at a nightclub in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on 2 September 2023. Prosecutors at the High Court in Edinburgh played CCTV which

The Scottish Sentencing Council has detailed amendments to its draft sentencing guidelines for rape offences in a response to a public consultation. The response, set out in a report published today, "focuses on addressing those matters of most interest to respondents and explains how the guidelines

Harper Macleod has welcomed 23 new trainee solicitors, a record intake for the firm, making it one of the largest employers of legal graduates in Scotland.

A solicitor’s failure to comply with regulators and court orders “undermines the status of the profession” according to the Court of Session. At a hearing this week the court stopped short of finding a solicitor in contempt of court for failure to comply with a court order to deliv