Almost two dozen hate crimes were recorded every day in Scotland in the year after the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2024 came into force, new figures show. Police Scotland said 8,538 hate crimes were reported between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025 – an average of 23.4 per day.
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The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against Chinese fast fashion giant Shein under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). Coimisiún na Meán, as the digital services co-ordinator for Ireland, where Shein's EU operations are based, will assist with the investigation.
One of the biggest private parking firms in the UK has been fined £473,000 after it failed to give information to a regulator. In December 2025, the CMA decided to impose the fixed penalty because Euro Car Parks Ltd had, without reasonable excuse, failed to comply with an information notice gi
An investigation into police conduct during the failed takeover of Rangers FC has still not begun, more than a decade after what were later found to be malicious prosecutions, The Times reports. Following the club’s collapse in 2012, David Grier, David Whitehouse and Paul Clark of Duff & P
An actress who provided the face of Albania's AI government minister is suing over the alleged misuse of her image. Albania made global headlines last year after unveiling an AI chatbot called "Diella" which it said had joined the government as minister of state for artificial intelligence.
The forensic science system in England and Wales is on the brink of collapse. This stark assessment, expressed by Professor Angela Gallop, has been reinforced today by the House of Lord Science and Technology Committee in a report that found “little to contradict it”. The committee&rsquo
Lord Justice Dingemans, senior president of tribunals, with the consent of the lord president, has appointed Lady Poole to be president of the Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber. Lady Poole succeeds Mrs Justice Heather Williams and will serve a three-year term with effect from 9 Feb
An Edinburgh sheriff conducting a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a lorry driver has concluded that his death was a result of inadequate risk assessment and training by his employer in relation to load stability and recommended that more be done to improve compliance with safety requirement
The Employment Rights Act (ERA) is likely to increase employment costs, weaken permanent job creation, and could increase workplace conflict in Scotland, new research by CIPD claims. The CIPD’s Labour Market Outlook shows that three in 10 (30 per cent) employers in Scotland plan to hire fewer
A legal academic has urged Scotland’s sentencing body to apologise to rape victims over the time taken to produce new guidelines, describing the seven-year process as a “national disgrace”. Dr Graeme Brown, of the University of Aberdeen, said the development of Scotland’s fir
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case of WX to the High Court of Justiciary. In 2010, the applicant pled guilty to a charge of breach of the peace. The applicant received a fine of £300. The sentencing sheriff concluded that there was a "significant sexual aspect"
Governments must not squander the opportunity to turn the International Court of Justice’s 2025 advisory opinion on states’ obligations regarding climate change into robust climate action, Amnesty International has said. Informal consultations on the draft resolution circulated by Vanuat
The death of a lorry driver could have been avoided if a number of precautions had been taken, a fatal accident inquiry has found, James Murray, 54, died on 23 August 2022 when his lorry overturned near junction 1 of the M8, close to the Hermiston Gait roundabout in Edinburgh, after the load in his
A local authority is recruiting a team of professional sniffers to help identify businesses producing bad smells. Brendola, a small town of around 4,000 people in northern Italy, is putting together a team of six "odour evaluators" following complaints from local residents about bad smells, The Guar
