A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment and will serve a minimum of 17 years in jail for the murder of Ansar Shah 25 years ago. Jagtar Singh, 51, murdered Mr Shah in the car park outside a restaurant in Ayr in the early hours of 4 October 1993.
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An informal gathering in memory of solicitor Michael McGinley will be held next Wednesday in Dundee at Clarks on Lindsay Street and to which friends and colleagues are warmly invited. The event will begin at 5pm.
The UK's bulk interception regime violates article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, judges in the European Court of Human Rights have ruled by five votes to two. The case of Big Brother Watch and Others v the United Kingdom concerned complaints by journalists and rights organisations ab
An advert in the programme for the Wigtown Book Festival has thrown up its own bit of mystery, in the shape of an advocate’s wig. The illustration for Well-Read Books of Wigtown, proclaimed as the town’s newest bookshop, features the wig and a bunch of grapes.
Criminal lawyers in Edinburgh have withdrawn from a legal aid duty scheme covering the Justice of the Peace court because there are too few solicitors to do the work. Ninety-one criminal law members of the Edinburgh Bar Association, belonging to 35 firms, have stopped providing cover to the Scottish
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will not reconsider its decision to reject Ireland's application for a revision of the 1978 "Hooded Men" judgment. In March, the ECtHR dismissed the Irish government’s application to revise Ireland v United Kingdom, in which the court found that
Murgitroyd, a global intellectual property attorney firm headquartered in Glasgow, has reported a seven per cent increase in underlying profits to £4.1 million. The firm had record year-on-year cash balances of just over £3m, with directors recommending a total dividend of 21p, up 24 per
A fascinating murder mystery will be the subject of an evening of discussion with an American lawyer in Glasgow later this year. David Rudolf, the defence attorney for Michael Peterson, whose case is depicted in the hit Netflix documentary series The Staircase, will be hosting a show exclu
MacRoberts is a key sponsor of the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) in Edinburgh this week. Ten years since the first ever SEWF event took place in Scotland, CEIS – the founders of SEWF and organisers of the 2018 events – is set to welcome over 1,000 social enterprise delegates from
A policy of forcing public bodies to reduce inequality has had little effect, an investigation has found. The Equalities Commission said that attempts by the Scottish government to create new duties promoting social and economic equality in legislation had had little measurable impact, The Time
Registers of Scotland (RoS) has now registered 65 per cent of land and property titles (around 1.8 million), amounting to 31.7 per cent land mass coverage, according to its annual report. Just under 70,000 addresses have been registered under Keeper Induced Registration (KIR) and, RoS said, "having
Car maker Volkswagen has gone on trial in Germany in the first court case against the firm over the emissions scandal, the BBC reports. Investors seek €9.2 billion in damages, claiming the company should have revealed it was falsifying data sooner.
The Scotsman has published a full obituary of sports lawyer Alan Grosset. "[He]... was a highly regarded and successful Edinburgh solicitor who combined a lifelong love of sport with the application of his professional acumen to become an acknowledged leader in the field of sports law.
The US has threatened the International Criminal Court (ICC) with sanctions if it prosecutes Americans over alleged abuse of detainees in Afghanistan. National security adviser John Bolton claimed that the court was "illegitimate" and that the US would do everything "to protect our citizens".
England and Wales' most senior judge has called for the judiciary to engage more with the media in order to ensure public support. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon said that judges themselves sow confusion: “The judiciary invites misunderstanding or incomprehension if its stands
