Lawyers acting for the wife of the captain of a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by US forces are seeking judicial review of his detention, arguing he is being held without legal authority. The Marinera, a Russian-flagged vessel, has been anchored in the Moray Firth in recent days. The tanker was
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A Crown appeal against the length of a sentence imposed on a man who assaulted his partner by repeatedly dropping her, causing her to require two operations on her skull and severely reducing her quality of life, has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary after it found that the sentence impos
The EU has agreed to contribute €10 million to support the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute senior Russian political and military leaders for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. The Council of Europe is leading the joint project to prepare the institutional, logistical and
The European Commission has launched a new investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X in light of the international scandal around the creation and dissemination of AI-generated sexually-explicit images of women and children. The investigation under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) will
A late judge's fine sense of humour has been warmly recalled in a letter to The Times. Mr Justice John Blofeld, a judge of the English High Court, passed away in November 2025 at the age of 93.
The fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the deaths of Christopher Stuchbury, Donald Dinnie and Brett McCullough commences today at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. The purpose of an FAI includes determining the cause of death, the circumstances in which the death occurred, and to establish what reasonabl
Proposed reforms to the freedom of information (FOI) regime in Scotland are not workable, according to a new report published today by Holyrood’s Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. In its stage one report on the Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill, t
A sheriff has dismissed a claim by a partnership seeking damages from their insurance broker on the basis that their provision of false information had led to an insurance claim for fire damage being refused after finding that the specification of causation of loss was insufficient to meet the test
The Scottish budget announced on 13 January has sharpened the focus on how tax policy changes influence behaviour in the workplace and the people consequences employers have already witnessed since the UK Budget in November 2025, writes Sarah Jackman. Following the UK's Budget announcement, much att
A man who backed out of an agreement to purchase a home after its price plummeted has been ordered to pay nearly half of the expected sale price.
The Criminal Justice Committee has set out the two positions of its members on support for the general principles of the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill, with four committee members in favour of the bill proceeding to stage two and four against. The bill, introduced by Ash Regan
The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published a scathing report on French prisons and detention facilities. During this visit, the CPT visited 14 police and gendarmerie detention facilities, four prisons (Fleury-M
A sheriff has found that a servitude of fuel storage established by the placement of a coal bunker in the courtyard of one property to service another had not been unduly extended by the addition of gas canisters following a change to the property’s heating system, after a dispute arose betwee
