MSPs on the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee are seeking views from the public, media organisations and publishers, internet firms and other experts on proposed changes to the law on defamation. The Justice Committee has been tasked with considering the Defamation and Malicious Publicat
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Non-healthcare professionals will require a licence to undertake cosmetic procedures under proposals from the Scottish government. Currently, treatments such as lip enhancements are available at premises including hairdressers and pharmacies.
Judges will be kept out of politics under plans to reform judicial review, the Lord Chancellor has said. Robert Buckland QC MP said the judiciary needed protection after a series of cases saw political decision-making “contracted out” to judges whose independence ought to be preserved.
Draft legislation has been laid before Parliament to allow cameras in courts in England and Wales for the first time. The Crown Court (Recording and Broadcasting) Order 2020 will allow cameras to broadcast the sentencing remarks of High Court and senior circuit judges in some of the most high-profil
Sheriff David Mackie, 66, has retired from the bench after 15 years at Alloa Sheriff Court. In an interview with the Alloa & Hillfoots Advertiser, Sheriff Mackie reflected on his journey to the bench.
Police use of Taser in response to a violent incident was necessary, the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner has found. An investigation has found that the use of Taser by police on a 40-year-old man acting aggressively towards armed officers and who had set fire to his home was necessar
An Italian man who claimed use of his mobile phone had caused a brain tumour has been backed by a court, The Times reports. Roberto Romeo, 59, suffered whistling in his right ear before requiring surgery in 2011 to remove a 2cm neuroma which left him deaf in one ear and with minor facial paralysis.
A Holyrood committee has expressed discontent after the Scottish government breached parliamentary rules to allow new electronic monitoring devices to be used due to a shortage in the number of tags available to meet demand. The Scottish Parliament’s Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee w
The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA), in conjunction with the Law Society of Scotland, is holding a roundtable discussion on the issues raised in the recent survey on retention of young lawyers in the Scottish legal profession. The survey found that over 60 per cent of young lawyers survey
The change in regulation of short-term lets could see more properties come to market and help alleviate demand, according to ESPC. After the results of a consultation last year revealed wide support for regulation of short-term lets, the Scottish government announced increased powers for local
Rangers manager Steven Gerrard has succeeded in a legal fight with two sportswear firms who attempted to block his clothing range. Mr Gerrard launched a menswear line in 2018 called SGG Apparel, consisting of polo shirts, hooded tops and jackets.
Thu, 20 February 202017:30 – 20:00 Did you know that the average size of a women’s pension pot at 65 is 1/5 the size of a man’s?
The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber has awarded £18,000 in damages to a tenant who was unlawfully evicted from his Glasgow flat in 2015, the first decision of its kind to come out of the FtT. Dambaru Baral raised the action in September 2018 against his landl
The House of Lords Constitution Committee has recommended that a clause to introduce significant new ministerial powers on how courts may depart from CJEU interpretations of retained EU law should be removed from the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill. The committee said this measure is inap
The restrictions imposed by Hungary on the financing of civil organisations from abroad are not compatible with EU law as they infringe the principle of free movement of capital and a number of fundamental rights, in the opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona. In 2017, Hungar
