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CEO of Scottish property portal ESPC, Paul Hilton, shares his thoughts on how the new UK government could help to bring about much-needed change in Scotland’s housing. While housing is a devolved matter, ESPC hopes that the promises made by Labour in the recent general election might help to b
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Qasim Ali has returned to Lindsays as an associate following a spell away from the firm and will be based at its Glasgow city centre offices. Mr Ali was previously a solicitor with Lindsays between April 2021 and August 2023. He has experience in all areas of corporate law, with clients including in
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Scotland's reconviction rate was 26.9 per cent in 2020-21 – a 2.6 percentage point increase from 24.3 per cent in 2019-20. The average number of reconvictions per offender, a measure of how often offenders are reconvicted, increased by eight per cent in the same period from 0.41 to 0.44.
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British Airways and the UK government are being sued by nearly 100 people who were taken hostage in 1990 after their plane landed in Kuwait shortly after the beginning of the Iraqi invasion. McCue Jury & Partners LLP is representing 95 claimants who were passengers or crew members aboard British
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A Chinese crime gang that trafficked vulnerable women and forced them to work in brothels in Glasgow and Edinburgh as part of a lucrative prostitution network have been jailed for a total of 20 years and nine months. Qin Huang, 31, Guolei Huang, 35, and Xiao Min, 38, were sentenced at the High Court
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Alex Hutcheon + Co Solicitors has appointed two new partners to the business. Peterhead-born Andrew Bruce, who joined the firm this month, brings with him more than 18 years’ knowledge and expertise in residential and commercial property across Aberdeenshire. With considerable experience also
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Time is running out for the Scottish government to meet a UN environmental justice deadline according to scrutiny by the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS), which brings to light a "series of failings" in reforming access to justice in Scotland. Scotland has been repeatedly found in bre
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Gender apartheid should be recognised as a crime to close a "major gap in international law", Amnesty International has said. The human rights group said legal recognition of gender apartheid would strengthen efforts to combat institutionalised regimes of systematic oppression and domination imposed
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We’re Scotland, so when it comes to major football tournaments we haven’t exactly been clocking up the air miles over the years, writes Robert Holland. However, under the stewardship of Scotland boss Steve Clarke, things have changed for the better. We reached Euro 2020 (actually he
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Chris Creegan has been appointed to the board of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA). Mr Creegan was vice chair of Police Scotland Independent Review Group on Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights from 2021 to 2024, having recently stepped down from that role.
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Judges failed subpostmasters convicted in the Horizon scandal, according to a former director of public prosecutions. Sir David Calvert-Smith, 79, who reviewed scores of appeals for the Post Office, said that in at least 12 convictions, judges ought to have “probed” the prosecution case
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The British ambassador to Mexico was sacked after being filmed jokingly pointing an assault rifle at a colleague. Jon Benjamin, for reasons unknown, picked up the weapon while sitting in a parked vehicle during an official trip to Durango and Sinaloa, states notorious for cartel activity.
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TikTok is facing a lawsuit from a new group of French parents who believe the video-sharing platform is not doing enough to protect children online. The Algos Victima collective, backed by lawyer Laure Boutron-Marmion, aims to bring together the greatest number of families to bring TikTok before the
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The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged first notices with the sheriff court to begin the court process for a conjoined fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of David Donnelly and Robert Thomson. David Donnelly, aged 83, died at Hairmyres Hospital on 14 January 2019. Rober
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An appeal against sentence by a repeat offender who was jailed for life with a punishment part of 23 years for murdering his partner while on bail for a different offence has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Christoper McGowan, aged 28 at the time of sentencing, had 57 previous convicti
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