A consultation has been launched on the maximum penalties for the most serious animal welfare and wildlife offences. Holyrood’s Environment, Climate Change & Land Reform Committee is considering proposals to provide further protections to animals and wildlife in Scotland.
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A solicitor who had sex with a drunk junior colleague, which a tribunal found he did not initiate, has been fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £200,000 in costs amid calls his case be referred to the police. Ryan Beckwith, 41, a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, brought the profes
FNF Scotland has organised free information sessions on a US online training programme intended to help separated parents to move on from their disputes with their ex-partner. Megan Hunter from the High Conflict Institute in San Diego will talk about its 'New Ways for Families' programme in Glasgow
Ampersand has again received top tier rankings across a number of areas of practice in the latest published guide to the legal profession, Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2020. Ampersand received 60 listings across 16 areas of practice, ranking as top tier (band 1) in Clinical Negligence as a Set
Terra Firma Chambers has retained its Band 1 rankings for Planning and Environmental Law, Agriculture & Rural Affairs and Tax in the latest edition of Chambers & Partners UK Directory. Described as the ‘top choice for planning and environmental work in Scotland’, Terra Firma rema
The UK government is being taken to court over its refusal to hold a fully independent, judge-led inquiry into British involvement in rendition and torture. The legal action is being brought by human rights NGO Reprieve, David Davis MP and Dan Jarvis MP.
The Supreme Court is hosting a special open day this month to mark its tenth anniversary. The court has featured regularly in the news in recent months, and this is a unique opportunity for members of the public to come and explore the UK’s highest court in person, learn about what goes on beh
They may not resemble UK Supreme Court head Lady Hale, or the veteran US Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but it's hoped that a new career-themed range of Judge Barbie dolls will encourage more women to take up the law. Toymaker Mattel said the doll, available in a variety of skin tones a
The EU’s controversial copyright crackdown risks ‘automated censorship’ of the internet, the chief executive of the Open Knowledge Foundation will warn today. Former MEP Catherine Stihler will speak out against ‘the blind faith many will put in automated technology or systems
Multinational company Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who said the firm had not issued a warning that its antipsychotic drug could lead to breast growth. The enormous award, around £6.6 billion, was awarded to 26-year-old Nicholas Murray by
The campaigners in the Court of Session case against Prime Minister Boris Johnson have had their petition refused by Lord Pentland in the Outer House. Dale Vince OBE, Jolyon Maugham QC and Joanna Cherry QC MP had sought to force Mr Johnson to extend Article 50 TEU if he cannot get a Brexit deal pass
Denial of the holocaust is not a human right, the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously ruled. A neo-Nazi politician, Udo Pastörs, who had been convicted in his native Germany after denying the Holocaust in a speech, made a complaint under article 10: freedom of expression.
The UK and the US have signed a bilateral agreement allowing their respective law enforcement agencies to directly demand electronic data relating to serious crime from tech companies in the other jurisdiction. The world-first UK-US Bilateral Data Access Agreement was signed by Home Secretary Priti
The widow of a barrister who died on safari with his daughter will have her case heard in an English court despite the law of Egypt being applicable. Lady Brownlie is to sue the Egyptian branch of the Four Seasons hotel chain over the death of Sir Ian Brownlie QC, The Times reports.
A Thai judge is recovering after shooting himself in an apparent suicide bid at the end of court proceedings in which he sharply criticised alleged interference with the judiciary. Judge Khanakorn Pianchana, 49, a senior judge at Yala Provincial Court in the south of Thailand, pulled out a pistol an
