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.
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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
The UK government has formally begun the process of repealing aspects of controversial Northern Ireland legacy legislation which were found to be incompatible with human rights law. A remedial order was introduced in Westminster yesterday to remove the immunity provisions and bar on new civil claims
The Scottish government has been accused of incompetence after a minister failed to bring forward promised legislation to remove free bus passes from young people involved in antisocial behaviour. Connectivity minister Jim Fairlie was supposed to introduce secondary legislation on Tuesday but admitt
Dear Editor, I do not dissent from any of the substance of Prof Hartmann’s article Trump’s Greenland Demands Threaten International Legal Order; but I express my discomfort at the use of the expression “rules-based international order”. That, and similar phrases, have been pr
