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Last week, I attended a showing at the EICC of a deeply shocking film entitled People’s Emergency Briefing. We have become accustomed recently to focusing on AI and national security as real and imminent threats to our future. This film, presented by Chris Packham, reminds us that the biggest

A US police department has retired a security robot less than a year after deploying it in a public parking garage after it failed to make any arrests or issue a single citation. Police in Dublin, Ohio, introduced the Knightscope K5 robot, known as “DubBot”, to patrol the Rock Cress Park

A council worker who embezzled thousands of pounds in public funds earmarked to support vulnerable people has been sentenced. Nadine McAleney, 34, stole £27,000 from East Renfrewshire’s Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) between April 2019 and November 2020.

First Minister John Swinney has called for a new approach to reduce deaths and harms from drugs and alcohol. It comes as a new Alcohol and Drugs Fund, which will provide £36.9 million to frontline services and organisations working with people affected by alcohol and drugs, is launched. 

The Outer House of the Court of Session has declared that Scottish Prison Service guidance permitting trans women to be accommodated in the female prison estate is unlawful following a petition for judicial review, after concluding that the guidance conflicted with a statutory requirement to provide

The families of those killed in the RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 have secured a court hearing in their bid for judicial review. The hearing, now scheduled for July 14 at the High Court in London, will consider whether the families' application should proceed.

The number of company insolvencies registered in Scotland fell by a quarter in May compared with the same month last year, according to the latest figures published by the Insolvency Service.

A number of rape convictions are being reviewed after a police detective was suspended over allegations that he used AI to generate evidence and case documents in a way designed to secure desired outcomes. The officer, from Derbyshire Police, has been removed from frontline duties and is the subject

Practitioners will be all too familiar with the Law Society of Scotland’s ‘Standards of Conduct’, especially when it comes to the obligations owed to clients so as not to bring yourself and, indeed, the wider profession into disrepute, writes Thomas Mitchell. However, in my own fir

The new lord advocate and solicitor general were sworn in by the Lord Justice General, Lord Pentland, at Parliament House on Friday. Ruth Charteris KC is now lord advocate and BJ Gill KC is solicitor general.

In May 2009 a meeting of residents of flats in Saltwater Mansions in Margate included Caroline Lane, a resident in a ground floor flat there. The meeting was somewhat contentious because of a dispute around essential repairs. Caroline Lane resided alone, and she challenged her liability for payment.

The Inner House of the Court of Session has recalled a lord ordinary’s declaration that the lord advocate’s immunity from liability in summary proceedings was incompatible with Article 6 ECHR in a malicious prosecution case arising from a journalist’s video commentary on the Alex S

Anderson Strathern’s corporate deals team has played a key role in assisting Aveni Ltd in securing a multi-million-pound investment. Director Max Scharbert, alongside associate Rory Crawford, acted on behalf of the Edinburgh-based business, helping it secure £12 million of funding from P