The Stuart Hogg case highlights the use of an offence which came into force in 2019, writes Douglas McConnell. The recent domestic criminal case involving former Scotland rugby player Stuart Hogg has attracted significant attention to the relatively new offence outlined in the Domestic Abuse (Scotla
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Government proposals for extensive new levels of direct government control and involvement in how Scottish solicitors work are to be removed from the Legal Services Regulation Bill, preserving supremacy of the rule of law, the Law Society of Scotland has said. The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotl
A judge has annulled a marriage where the bride was tricked into going along with what she believed was a fake wedding organised as a social media prank. The woman said she was invited to what she was told was a "white party" – where everyone is expected to wear white – by a man she had
A man has been jailed for 12 years following a campaign of violent, sexual and domestic abuse. Scott Wilson was found guilty of seven charges, including rape, on 6 November 2024 following a trial at the High Court in Livingston.
Creating sexually explicit 'deepfake' images is to become a criminal offence in England and Wales. The UK government says it is concerned by the rate at which "hyper-realistic" fake sexual images of real women and girls are proliferating thanks to widespread access to new technology.
An Inverness GP who sought reduction of a sheriff’s determination that the death of a young child may have been avoided had she referred her to a paediatric unit in 2019 has had a judicial review petition to that effect refused. Karen Duncan argued that the sheriff had misdirected herself in l
Ronnie Clancy KC defends the Lockerbie investigation against claims its famous conviction was a miscarriage of justice. Twenty-four years have elapsed since the conviction of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi for his part in the murderous conspiracy which caused the death of 270 innocent people on 21
Lindsays is on course to break the £200 million barrier for total home sales in 2025. Market experts at the firm say a more stable market during the past 12 months has been to the benefit of buyers and sellers following years of extreme highs and lows in both prices and trading conditions.
Partners at London law firms are managing to double or triple their pay by moving firms amid intense competition caused by unprecedented investment by US firms, according to a new report. Legal recruitment consultancy Edwards Gibson said there were 546 partner hires in London in 2024, up from 510 in
A sheriff has imposed a three-month anti-social behaviour order on the tenant of a council flat in East Kilbride after finding he had acted aggressively towards his neighbours and threatened a member of the council’s staff over the phone. South Lanarkshire Council applied for an order in respe
Asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands controversially retained by the UK after Mauritius became independent in the 1960s, a judge has ruled. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court yesterday found that dozens of Sri Lankan Tamils w
A University of Dundee study will give volunteer jurors from across Scotland the opportunity to deliver their verdict on the future of digital crime fighting. The university’s Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) is recruiting members of the public as part of research focusi
The number of police officers quitting to follow other careers should be a wake-up call for the Scottish government, Scottish Labour has warned. Scottish Labour's Pauline McNeill urged the SNP to reverse this trend as soon as possible before burn out creates a "snowball effect".
The dispute resolution and litigation team at Shoosmiths in Scotland has underlined the growing demand for its legal advice across key sectors, revealing a robust growth in financial performance over the last three years. The practice, co-led in Scotland by partners Andrew Foyle and Stuart Clubb, ch
Barriers in accessing justice, including chronic challenges in the legal aid system, are among human rights issues identified by the Scottish Human Rights Commission in a new report presented to the Scottish Parliament. Scotland's human rights watchdog has published its State of the Nation 2024
