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A woman charged with drug offences after being stopped on the A9 with drugs in her car has lost a preliminary appeal under section 74(1) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 arguing that she had been unlawfully detained. Carol McCrone sought to argue that the uniformed officers who pulled h
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The criminal justice system south of the border is heading towards collapse, two senior judges have warned. Lord Justice Singh and Justice Jay made their warning in a ruling that the UK government acted unlawfully after it failed to properly fund the legal aid system.
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Pre-recorded evidence could harm a complainant's chance of securing a conviction in rape cases, new research shows. A study led by Professor Cheryl Thomas KC at University College London found there were 20 per cent fewer rape convictions in such cases.
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The Scottish Liberal Democrats have revealed that the longest outstanding waits for fatal accident inquiries (FAI) in Scotland now run to almost a decade. A Scottish Liberal Democrat freedom of information investigation uncovered that:
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A 20-year-old man charged with having possession of indecent photographs of children has lost an appeal against a trial sheriff’s decision that images recovered from a cloud storage website based in New Zealand accessed using a password found on his smartphone could be led as evidence. The man
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A teenager has become the youngest person to ever qualify as a lawyer in California. Peter Park passed the California bar exam at the age of 17, breaking a record previously set by an 18-year-old.
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Donald Trump has been barred by Colorado's Supreme Court from running for the US presidency in 2024 because of his attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. In an unprecedented ruling, judges held by a 4-3 majority that Trump was necessarily disqualified by the 14th amendment to the US C
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The Scottish Liberal Democrats have highlighted that police tasers have been used against children over a hundred times since 2018 as they urged the Scottish government to consider scaling back taser deployment in Scotland. In 2018, Police Scotland doubled the number of officers armed with tasers, d
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A Fife man who shared extremist hate material from a banned right-wing terror group online has been fined a total of £840. Colin Webster, 62, of Kelty, was found guilty of an offence under terrorism legislation following a trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Ministry of Defence (MoD) £350,000 for disclosing personal information of people seeking relocation to the UK shortly after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021. On 20 September 2021, the MoD sent an email to a distribu
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The European Union has recorded a major milestone on the road to establishing the world's first comprehensive legal framework to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Following lengthy negotiations, the European Parliament and Council on Saturday reached a political agreement on the AI A
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Nearly half of barristers in England and Wales have experienced or witnessed bullying, harassment and discrimination in their legal work, according to new research by the Bar Council. In the most recent survey, 44 per cent of respondents said they had experienced or observed this behaviour while wor
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A watered-down bill to protect children's rights has been passed by the Scottish Parliament more than two years after the original version was ruled by the Supreme Court to be beyond the devolved chamber's powers. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) Bill requires
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A farm labourer who acted as an illegal gangmaster has been fined £400. Dean Currie, 33, pleaded guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to receiving just over £6,000 for illegally supplying workers to pick potatoes at a number of farms in Fife.
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The average selling price of property in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and the Borders dropped 6.6 per cent year-on-year to £273,348, according to new figures from ESPC. The average percent of Home Report valuation attained was 4.2 percentage points lower than last year, recorded at 102.6 per
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