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A man caught on camera licking the doorbell outside a family home for three hours in the dead of night has been charged with criminal offences. Roberto Daniel Arroyo, 33, was filmed leaning his head against the front door intercom and licking the doorbell from different angles for three hours.

At the High Court in Edinburgh today, Lord Arthurson sentenced a 17-year-old girl to detention for life with a punishment part of 16 years after the accused was found guilty of the murder of 18-year-old Connor Cowper. On sentencing, Lord Arthurson made the statement below in court. At some time

Chartered legal executives in England and Wales are pushing to be recognised as lawyers on par with solicitors and barristers as part of any post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the European Union. The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has argued the lack of recognition for legal

A Scottish local authority which entered into missives for the sale of land to a property developer and subsequently granted planning permission for the redevelopment of the site was not entitled to rescind the contract on the basis that the appropriate fee had not been paid when the planning applic

On 1 December 2017, new legislation came into force which transferred jurisdiction in relation to applications in Private Sector Rented Cases and Private Residential Tenancies to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber. Civil cases relating to the private rented sector are

A figure from the children's hearing system has said the age of criminal responsibility could be raised to 16. Malcolm Schaffer, head of practice and policy at the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, told MSPs that the criminal justice system is not necessary to "control behaviour" of

A woman who made a £1.6 million fortune by selling fake treatments for weight loss and cancer has been banned from running a company for six years, The Times reports. Carol Wiseman, 51, and her sister Helen Buchan, 52, both from Fraserburgh, claimed that their Secret Diet Drops led to weight l

Hundreds of students have signed a petition calling on the University of Oxford to sack a law professor with "extremely discriminatory views against many groups of disadvantaged people". John Finnis, emeritus professor of law and legal philosophy, retired in 2010 but continues to co-teach seminars f

A Scots lawyer convicted of embezzling more than £20,000 of clients’ money has been struck off the solicitors’ roll by the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal (SSDT). Paul O'Donnell, of Glasgow, pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in April 2016 to em

A former director of Citizens Advice Edinburgh has been appointed to lead the Law Society of Scotland’s regulatory work. Craig Cathcart, senior lecturer at Queen Margaret University’s Business School, has been appointed convener of the Law Society’s Regulatory Committee.

Police have apologised to a man whose £40,000 car was stolen twice in the same day, the second time from a secure police compound. Robbers armed with knives broke into the home of Phil Chambers, 30, and his fiancé to steal the keys to the Audi RS3.

A Court of Session ruling has highlighted how technology suppliers can successfully raise claims for relief for delays caused to their work, and how the businesses engaging those suppliers might properly resist those claims, writes Clive Seddon. Agilisys Limited (Agilisys) was engaged by technology

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in favour of an Azerbaijani journalist who was subject to a sex-tape smear campaign after investigating government corruption. The ECtHR ruled that the Azerbaijani authorities failed to investigate a “sex video” of Radio Free Europe re

Dr Kim Barker of Stirling Law School and Dr Olga Jurasz of the Open University Law School are hosting an evening reception at the Royal Scots Club in Edinburgh on 5 February 2019 to mark the launch of their new book: Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation. The book assesse

Websites that are more than one-third pornographic will have to verify the age of UK visitors under a newly passed law. While the regulations had been delayed as the government sought to amend them, age verification checks will become active from April.