North Korean authorities have cracked down on the phrase "I love you" as evidence of a "decadent lifestyle". According to Daily NK, factory officials in Hamhung, North Korea's second largest city, publicly condemned a love letter which was discovered in a young worker's bag during a routine ins
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The Aberdeen Legal Walk will be held on Wednesday 8 October. Organised by the Robert Gordon University’s Grampian Community Law Centre, the walk will support and raise money for the Access to Justice Foundation.
A convicted rapist prevented from voting in the UK's 2019 general election did not suffer a breach of his rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Chamber judgment in the case of Hora v. the United Kingdom, the court unanimously held that there had been no violati
Figures released by National Records of Scotland show that there were 1,185 alcohol-related deaths in Scotland in 2024 – the 12th year in a row the fatality toll has been over 1,000. According to statistics released by National Records of Scotland, the number of alcohol-specific deaths fell by
A UK tax tribunal judge has confirmed that he used artificial intelligence to help draft a ruling on a disclosure application, in what appears to be the first published UK judicial decision of its kind. The case, VP Evans (as executrix of HB Evans, deceased) & Ors v The Commissioners for HMRC [2
It was unsurprising that the announcement of the winner of a Scottish literary award earlier this month received media attention. What was rather more noteworthy about this event was that it was reported in Scottish Legal News. The recipient of the McIlvanney Prize (named in memory of the late Willi
The post-Brexit Conservative government rolled back the frontiers of liberal democracy, research led by the University of Stirling has argued. The research paper, Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of the UK, was published in the journal Policy Studies.
The Taliban has banned high-speed internet across much of northern Afghanistan in order to "prevent immoral activities". Fibre-optic internet access has been shut off in between five and 10 provinces, though slower mobile internet still works, according to Sky News.
Sheriff Principal Anwar has been appointed as an advisor to the Scottish Sentencing Council. Appointed as sheriff principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway in April 2020, she later took on the role of sheriff principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin in May 2023 and became president of the S
A judge in the High Court of England and Wales has granted an interim injunction sought by a boxing promoter preventing one of its senior employees from doing work for a rival promotion after finding that there was a risk of irrecoverable damage to the claimants if it was not granted. Claimant Boxxe
The independent legal support boat sailing to Gaza alongside the Global Sumud Flotilla has published its first legal updates. Irish lawyers Gemma McLoughlin-Burke BL and Leigh Brosnan BL, as well as English solicitor Alexander Hogg, are on board the vessel, which began its journey earlier this month
The UK and Irish governments on Friday published a joint framework for dealing with the legacy of the Troubles, hailed by Simon Harris as "a return to a partnership approach on Northern Ireland". The seven-page document was launched at Hillsborough Castle by the UK's Northern Ireland secretary,
Volume XI of the Dundee Student Law Review is now available. The volume comprises four full-length research articles each addressing distinct international research areas.
Scotland’s most senior judge has highlighted the importance of the rule of law and judicial independence during a speech at the annual opening of the legal year ceremony. Addressing attendees at Parliament House in Edinburgh, the Lord President, Lord Pentland, stressed that the judiciary must
