Glasgow-based, Just Employment Law has raised a significant sum for its charity partners, Pancreatic Cancer Action Scotland, by holding an online charity auction. The auction, held during Pancreatic Cancer awareness month, and which ended on World Pancreatic Cancer Day raised over £32,000. The
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Scotland is becoming a state in which the population is forced to conform to the vision and values of the ruling elite, a new book argues. In The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?, author Ian Mitchell suggests that the country is on the road to becoming an author
Online shoppers who shelled out hundreds of pounds for a new PlayStation 5 console have been left disappointed after instead receiving bags of grain, rice, cat food or nothing at all. Amazon has announced an investigation into what it said was a "small proportion" of orders which had apparently fall
A crowdfunder has been established for the appeal against conviction of the late Abdelbaset al-Megrahi over the Lockerbie bombing. Mr Megrahi was convicted on 31 January 2001 for the murders of the 243 passengers and the 16 crew on board Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York, and 11 residents of
The practice of sending elderly patients to live in locked units in Scotland has been brought to an end following court action by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The EHRC said it reached a settlement on ending the "unlawful detention of adults with incapacity" by NHS Greater Glasgow and Cl
The criminal justice system is being brought “to its knees” in England and Wales, James Mulholland QC has said. The chair of the Criminal Bar Association told The Guardian that the pandemic had worsened the crisis but that severe cuts to the Ministry of Justice since 2010 had left it dan
The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a talk entitled Penalties for Enablers of Defeated Tax Avoidance on 25th November 2020 from 2pm to 3pm. The speakers will be Ken Curran and Lesley Shakles of HMRC. They will provide an overview of legislation
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Chinese Embassy in Germany opposes so-called ‘hearing’ on China’s human rights situation - Global Times
Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has defended a man charged by police for operating an illegal drugs consumption van in Glasgow. Peter Krykant was charged with obstruction under the Misuse of Drugs Act, The Times reports.
Price comparison website ComparetheMarket has been fined £17.9 million by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) after it found that that the company breached competition law by imposing wide ‘most favoured nation’ clauses on providers of home insurance selling through i
The latest quarterly fines report has been published by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service and shows that fines collection rates have held strong in spite of the effects of the coronavirus crisis. The new report, which covers the financial years 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 Q1 as mea
Evidence is urgently required to show whether all hospital patients discharged to care homes during the height of the coronavirus pandemic were moved lawfully, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The society has called on the Scottish government to provide data on the legal basis of the transfers,
Ensuring next year’s Holyrood election can take place is the focus of a new bill being considered by the Scottish Parliament’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. With the election currently due to take place on 6 May 2021, the impact of Covid-19 means that contingen
New cases registered have risen to 78 per cent of the average monthly pre-Covid level, new figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service show. The figures show the volumes of cases being progressed each month in the High Court, Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court from April 20
The Scotsman has published a full obituary of James Hamilton Rust WS, partner at Morton Fraser, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 62. "James Hamilton Rust was the epitome of the Scottish 'man o' pairts'. In addition to pursuing a hugely successful legal career as a partner of Morton Fr
