A woman who kept more than 20 dogs and puppies in squalid conditions inside stables and farm outhouses has been fined a total of £1,975 and banned from keeping dogs for three years. Several dogs belonging to Jamie-Lee Harper, 36, were matted and dirty and left to sleep on concrete floors in da
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The Sheriff Appeal Court has quashed an absolute discharge given to a motorist found speeding at over 100mph outside of Kilmarnock with bald rear tyres and instead fined him £1,125 and disqualified him from driving for 22 months, following a Crown appeal against the sheriff’s decision. M
Immediate action will be taken to address any harms or risks identified in the first part of an inspectorate-led review of responses to group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), the Scottish government has said. Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth announced to Holyrood that the first par
Human rights campaigners have expressed disappointment after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the disclosure of evidence in a Troubles-related inquest could be blocked on national security grounds. Judges yesterday handed down their unanimous judgment in a case concerning a decision by a coroner to d
A lawyer is suing US tax authorities for refusing to recognise her dog as a dependent like a child. Amanda Reynolds, who specialises in civil litigation insurance defence, has filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York – naming her eight-year-old golden retriever, Finnegan Mary Reynol
A law to establish a new offence of dog theft, despite the fact it is already an offence at common law, has been passed at Holyrood. The Dog Theft (Scotland) Bill, was passed by 119 votes to two.
The Tumbling Lassie Appeal, founded by members of the Faculty of Advocates in 2015, has raised over £70,000 this year as it celebrated its 10th anniversary. The Tumbling Lassie “Diamond Ball” was held at Prestonfield Stables on 8 November. The evening featured a performance of the
A rapist who sexually abused three vulnerable women in the space of nine months has been jailed for a minimum of four years and six months before he will be eligible for parole. David Ekpe was found guilty of three charges on 19 November 2024 following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.&n
A man who took photographs of two witnesses in a case against him seeking his disqualification as a company director has lost his appeal against a finding that he was in contempt of court after the Sheriff Appeal Court found that his conduct objectively amounted to contempt regardless of his stated
An overwhelming number of respondents to an SLN survey think Judge Alexander Kemp should be investigated over anomalies in his judgment in S Peggie v Fife Health Board and Dr B Upton. We received 1,000 responses to our poll. The vast majority, 945, ie 94.5 per cent, agreed that the appearance of fab
Donald Trump is seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC in defamation proceedings now filed with a court in Florida.
Workers in China have been caught tricking a facial recognition system for clocking in by printing out and wearing crude masks of their colleagues. Staff members employed at a residents' committee in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou allegedly used the novel technique to skip work until they were
A sheriff has allowed a claim by two landowners against their neighbour, whom they averred harmed the wedding business on their land by performing extensive excavation work next to it, to proceed on the basis of pure economic loss based on an intentional or reckless delict of nuisance, but excluded
WildFish is highlighting serious public-interest concerns following over 200 appeals lodged by salmon-farming companies against new Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) licence conditions designed to regulate sea-lice impacts from fish farms. These mass appeals have had the effect of freezi
Scottish Legal News is asking readers whether Employment Judge Alexander Kemp, whose judgment in S Peggie v Fife Health Board and Dr B Upton contains fabricated quotations, should be investigated? So far, the Judicial Office, a branch of the UK civil service which supports non-devolved tribunals acr
