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A Nigerian college tutor who submitted a “near miss” application for indefinite leave to remain in the UK has had an appeal against a decision not to grant permission for a judicial review application to proceed refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session. The petitioner and recla

Thomas Ross QC writes about a proposed private prosecution of David Goodwillie and David Robertson that he and solicitor Melissa Rutherford are seeking for the rape of Denise Clair It is very difficult to read Lord Armstrong’s judgment in the civil case, without coming to t

And so the time has come to talk of David and Henry, and the crimes of which they stand accused. In David Hume’s case sentence has already been passed, his name now severed from the largest post-war building on Edinburgh University’s principal campus. Given that he had fixed ideas on bea

In a recent landmark decision, the English High Court allowed the claimant’s personal injury case against her mother’s GP on the basis that the claimant’s disability had been caused by negligent advice to her mother pre-conception, writes Klaudia Wasilewska. It is a well-establishe

The perverse jury can be a fair fickle beast. The acquital of four defendants who quite clearly broke the law when they pulled down the statue of Edward Colston is a case in point. Manifestly, it was wantonly remiss of Bristol's Labour Council and Mayor to risk leaving the said effigy of the reprehe

If nothing else is proved, Giuffre v Prince Andrew, Duke of York will at least have shown the public’s fascination with the private lives of royalty, writes Andrew Stevenson. This is not new. It is 200 years since the death of Queen Caroline. Born in the German principality of Brunswick, Carol

It was reported this week that Alice Sebold, author of the Lovely Bones amongst other works, had issued a public apology for her part in a miscarriage of justice that led to Anthony Broadwater spending 17 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. But could this miscarriage of justice have

A man who was detained in various hospitals in the Glasgow area after being found unfit to stand trial in criminal proceedings has had an action for damages against the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board rejected by the Sheriff Court. Daniel Boyle was detained in a hospital designated as a high

The total debt owed by individuals to local authorities that charged for temporary homeless accommodation in Scotland is in excess of £33 million, new figures have revealed amid suggestions that the practice could be unlawful. The data has been published in a new report by the Legal

Kirsty Yuill takes a look at proposed new traffic rules. According to a 2021 study by Rooster Insurance, 46.6 per cent of drivers have never refreshed their knowledge of the Highway Code. Those road users will no doubt be surprised to hear that 33 of its rules have been updated and five other change

The Inner House of the Court of Session has allowed a reclaiming motion by the director of an oil company who sought millions of dollars in damages for the loss of value of his shareholdings after part of his shareholding was bought by the Lime Rock Group. It was held by the Lord Ordinary that Rober

When 12 ships from the Crimean port of Kaffa docked at Messina, Sicily, in October 1347 they carried more than onward consignments of exotic articles from the ancient oriental silk route. They also brought the bacterium versinia pestis. This had been passed from rodents and fleas to the ships’

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a woman who alleged that the UK government failed to properly implement two EU Directives on protection against workplace discrimination. The appellant, Ms Anwar, originally brought judicial review proceedings before the Court of Session after being un

Despite recent fashionable and temporary claims to the contrary, individuals are complex. David Black makes a plea in mitigation for the rightly reviled Henry Dundas. But what of Marie Stopes, eugenicist and Nazi sympathiser, who sent love poetry to the Führer himself? A blue plaque in Abe

Zoe McDonnell details new driving offences soon to find their way onto the statute book. It is highly likely that certain UK-wide driving laws will be changed in the near future. These changes include: