A solicitor has been found guilty of professional misconduct and fined £10,000 after being convicted of road traffic offences. Martha Anne Rafferty was fined the sum by the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal.
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A bill proposing a Scottish Pubs Code to govern the relationship between tenants and owners of tied pubs and to establish the office of Scottish Pubs Code Adjudicator has been introduced at Holyrood by Labour MSP Neil Bibby. The proposal, which has won cross-party support, was also strongly supporte
A judge in South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for the country's former president, Jacob Zuma, after he failed to appear in court for his corruption trial. His lawyers said that Mr Zuma, 77, was ill and seeking treatment abroad.
The House of Lords' Economic Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into the economics of Universal Credit. The committee will examine whether the welfare reform is meeting its original objectives and whether the policy assumptions reflected in its design are appropriate for different groups
Police responding to reports of a child calling for help were relieved to find that the screams were, in fact, coming from a goat. A man in Ottawa called police after hearing what sounded like a child calling for help from a nearby wooded area, CBC reports.
Plans to devolve various tribunals to Scotland as part of the Smith agreement are to be delayed by at least two years, The Herald reports. The Scottish government was meant to take over the operation of a number of tribunals but a report now makes clear this will now not take place “before 202
The number of diversion from prosecution cases commenced in Scotland rose by seven per cent between 2017 and 2019 to over 1,800, around the same as the levels in 2014-15 and 2015-16. The statistics report, Criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2018-19, published today by Sco
A serious fire occurred at the headquarters of the Law Society of England and Wales in London on Saturday night. Eleven people were evacuated from the building, which also houses The Law Society Gazette, as 150 firefighters fought the blaze at Chancery Lane at around 10:40 pm.
Sikhs have threatened to take legal action against Scottish government ministers if they are classified as a religion rather than an ethnic minority on the census. Sikhism is an Indian religion founded by Guru Nanak in the fifteenth century.
A third of courthouses in England and Wales have been closed in the past decade and sold to raise up to £250 million, new research indicates. The number of courts fell from 923 in 2010 to 628 by the end of 2019, The Times reports.
Plans to open civil partnerships to different-sex couples have drawbacks, but those might be a blessing in the long run, the Faculty of Advocates has suggested. In a submission to the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee, the Faculty said the Civil Partnership (Scotland)
A teenage trio who murdered a vulnerable pensioner have been sentenced to life imprisonment at the High Court in Edinburgh. Keirin McMillan or Elliott, who was 19 at the time of the offence, and two boys aged 16 and 17 were convicted in November of last year of the murder and robbery of Alasdair McP
Lawyers have expressed dismay about the state of the legal job market in Scotland after a single legal traineeship attracted 120 applications. Glasgow-based firm Dallas McMillan sought a trainee earlier this month to begin in the summer.
There has been little progress in increasing the diversity of the judiciary in England, according to a new report. JUSTICE's latest report follows a similar one published in 2017, which explored the structural barriers faced by women, BAME communities, solicitors and those from lower socio-economic
The EU will insist that the Court of Justice of the European Union should be able to rule on any post-Brexit agreement with the UK, The Times reports. An internal Brussels diplomatic document states that the EU will argue its court should be able to enforce the terms of a trade, fishing and security
