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Next year will see the first wave of changes under the Employment Rights Act come into force, writes Laura Morrison. Key developments include the introduction in April 2026 of day-one entitlements to statutory paternity and parental leave, alongside a doubling of the cap on protective awards for fai

The campaign group Fair Civil Justice has launched a series of meetings with legal stakeholders, consumer and business interests in Scotland as part of a programme of activity to heighten awareness of the current Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) consultation on the introduction of “opt-ou

Santa and his elves have shoplifted huge volumes of food to share with the needy at Christmastime. Police in Montréal, Canada say "masked and disguised individuals" stole food worth around $3,000 CAD (around £1,620) from a supermarket last week, CBC reports.

The number of outstanding fatal accident inquiries (FAIs) in Scotland has risen above 300, according to newly released figures. Data obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrats through a freedom of information request to the Crown Office shows there are 318 FAIs currently awaiting completion. That re

An undertaker who sexually assaulted two female colleagues while they attempted to arrange funeral services has been jailed for two years. James Jarvie, 63, from Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, was found guilty of subjecting the women to indecent remarks, inappropriate touching and groping. 

Scotland Yard has been left red-faced after being prosecuted and fined £1,000 for failing to respond to correspondence from another police force about a speeding offence. The Metropolitan Police was named as the defendant in a criminal case brought by Staffordshire Police after a Peugeot van r

Ministers are examining whether legislation banning smoking in public places should be amended to permit the smoking of crack cocaine within supervised drug consumption facilities in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Health officials say there has been a shift in recent years away from injecting heroin towards

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has expressed her "deep hope" that victims of domestic abuse can see routes to a safer future after new figures showed a 19 percent rise in convictions. Ms Bain said her thoughts are with victims at what can be a difficult time of year. But she urged them to "take confi

A sheriff has ordered a proof in an action for damages raised by a boat builder against a haulage company contracted to transport a boat mould he alleged he owned and repelled a plea of no title to sue advanced by the defenders, having ruled that the pursuer had a possessory interest in the mould an

The family of a Romanian national employed in England as an HGV driver who died in a road accident in Scotland caused by yellow warning high winds have failed to establish that Scots law applied to their case against his employer, after a lord ordinary ruled that the basis of the case was founded on

A man who inflicted 48 separate injuries on a teenage girl during a violent rape at a music festival in Edinburgh has been jailed. James Leckie, of Musselburgh, attacked the 16-year-old shortly after meeting her at the event in Princes Street Gardens on 16 September 2023.

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has launched a new mediation service to enhance its dispute resolution offering. Following the publication of its Mediation Rules in September, the centre has now launched the service. The service provides a new administered mediation scheme to support businesses and

A check on the pages in Wikipedia for Diana, Princess of Wales suggests that there are at least 30 books about the lady, and the long article there has about 500 footnotes. That alleged number of books may be a low number of the actual publications, given foreign interest. These bare statistics do n