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Louise Heren reviews a new book on the headline-grabbing trial of Gayle Newland.

A teenager made subject to an Order for Lifelong Restricting after assaulting a 15-year-old boy on his 17th birthday, having previously been convicted of other acts of violence, has lost an appeal against the order before the High Court of Justiciary, although it was noted by the court that the inab

At the High Court at Edinburgh yesterday, Judge Norman McFadyen KC sentenced Alexander Steven to an extended sentence of 18 years for the rape and assault with intent to rape of five different women in Dundee. In passing sentence, Judge McFadyen made the observations below. You have been found guilt

Sir Keir Starmer's warning about the lessons of Iraq reflects a central principle of the UN Charter – that the use of force must rest on clear legal grounds rather than strategic convenience, writes Andrew Stevenson. The British Prime Minister is to be commended for his reaction to the latest

As AI enters complaints handling, gains in speed and insight must be balanced against fairness, transparency and the human touch, writes Vicky Crichton. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how organisations interact with the people they serve. That’s certainly true in the world of com

A personal injury sheriff has ordered a pursuer who abandoned an action against the distribution company that formerly employed him alleging he suffered psychiatric injury following a data breach to pay expenses to the defender after finding that he had raised a claim based on false evidence and mis

A pre-trial appeal in a domestic abuse case based on a judge’s refusal of a plea of no jurisdiction owing to some of the alleged conduct taking place in England has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary after it held that the common law on cross-border jurisdiction allowed for such a ca

A sheriff principal sitting in the Sheriff Appeal Court has ruled that an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to refuse a petition for recall of sequestration was incompetent, notwithstanding ambiguities in the relevant statutory provisions, as the decision was not capable of appeal without le

The "sale of solicitors' practices to investment companies" was a danger posed by the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 a seminar in Glasgow heard yesterday. The seminar, 'Key Changes, Implications and Next Steps' of the Act, and was held at the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow

A sheriff has ordered a proof in an action for damages raised by a boat builder against a haulage company contracted to transport a boat mould he alleged he owned and repelled a plea of no title to sue advanced by the defenders, having ruled that the pursuer had a possessory interest in the mould an

The die was cast for Mary Queen of Scots on May 16th 1568 when she crossed the Solway into England a few days after the Battle of Langside. Some sought to dissuade her. Archbishop Hamilton even seized the reins of her horse and begged her not to trust herself to England. Mary would have none of it,

The last revolution in legal education was not digital but electrical. For a time, the lecture halls of Edinburgh and Glasgow stood half-in, half-out of the new century: stone stairwells lit by bare bulbs, while seminar rooms still relied on the yellow comfort of gaslight. No one doubted that electr

Irrespective of one’s politics, it is irrefutable that John Maclean was one of the great men of politics making history in early twentieth-century Red Clydeside. So why is he so sparingly discussed in this book whose title purports to be a new biography? The early chapters rattle along recount

Europe has entered the next phase of the AI–copyright debate, writes Corsino San Miguel. On 11 November, the 42nd Civil Chamber of the Munich Regional Court delivered the first European judgment to hold an AI developer directly liable for both training and outputs involving copyrighted works.