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Latvia could become the first EU country to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on violence against women following a vote by MPs. MPs last week backed withdrawal by 56-32 with two abstentions, despite some of the largest protests in recent Latvian history, with around 5,000 people taking to the s

A man who sexually assaulted two young girls after dragging them off the street in a bid to rape them has been jailed for over six years. Regan McClinton followed and attacked both children within less than 30 minutes of each other in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, on 22 April 2023.

Attorney General Lord Hermer has blamed the collapse of the Chinese spying prosecution on outdated espionage laws in the UK. He said that prosecutors had acted in good faith in attempting to secure convictions against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry – both of whom deny any wrongdoing &n

A woman due to serve a prison sentence in Lithuania for the murder of her youngest daughter has lost a challenge to her extradition based on her mental health diagnosis and the effect of her retrial in a Scottish prosecution on the amount of time she had served in custody. Ineta Gavenaite, who had p

A rapist who drugged two women before sexually abusing them while they were incapacitated has been jailed for nine years. Kenan Baki spiked the drinks of both women after meeting them at a nightclub in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on 2 September 2023. Prosecutors at the High Court in Edinburgh played CCTV which

Britain’s equality regulator has concluded a legal agreement with IKEA UK, after the retailer improved its policies and practices on workplace sexual harassment. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) entered the Section 23 agreement with IKEA UK in March 2023.

The UK government’s proposal to overhaul anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement will impose additional complexity and cost for law firms and consumers of legal services in Scotland, according to the Law Society of Scotland. The government has announced that the Financial Conduct Authority wil

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by a trade union against a sheriff’s decision that tweets it posted about the wages of restaurant workers in Glasgow were defamatory of the restaurant’s parent company after finding that the sheriff was entitled to reach the conclusion he di

Ronnie Clancy KC continues to analyse the politico-legal fallout of a spy prosecution that went awry. See part one here. In round two of their public relations bout with the director of public prosecutions (DPP) the UK government (HMG) has come out swinging. It has published the three witness statem

A case against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) over alleged links between its talcum powder products and cancer has been formally lodged at the High Court on behalf of more than 3,000 claimants. KP Law, formerly known as Keller Postman UK, is bringing what is believed to be one of the largest-ever p

A man who murdered his girlfriend at a remote Shetland home has been jailed for life, and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years. Canadian national Aren Pearson brutally attacked his partner – 24-year-old Claire Leveque – stabbing her multiple times, choking her and submerging her in wat

With the UK government’s consultation on mandating major companies and financial services firms to develop and implement climate transition plans now closed, the spotlight is turning not just on corporate strategy, but on their legal responsibilities. By 2023, more than 70 per cent of FTSE 100

For over 25 years, John Sweetman worked as a detective garda attached to the Technical Bureau in police headquarters, Dublin. He qualified as a fingerprint expert and later as a security document and handwriting expert. He spent much of his time examining crime scenes, and later scenes of crime exhi

A lord ordinary has ruled that a claim by an Indian national seeking asylum in the UK on the basis of his homosexuality could not be regarded as clearly unfounded for the purposes of section 94 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 after finding that it was not impossible that a tribun

A lord ordinary has granted a petition for adoption raised by a separated couple that no longer resided in the same household after finding that it was not necessary for a couple to reside together in order to create an enduring family relationship. Petitioners AB and CD separated in July 2023, two