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A lawsuit concerning a woman who was struck in the face by a bird while riding a rollercoaster turns on whether the bird was a duck or a snowy egret. Hillary Martin is seeking $500,000 in damages from SeaWorld after she says she was knocked unconscious while riding the Mako rollercoaster at the Flor
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The property market across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife, and the Borders saw average selling price rise by 5.1 per cent year-on-year to £299,050, between September and November 2025, according to the latest figures from ESPC.
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In memory of Neil Beynon, advocate, who died at the end of October, Ross Macfarlane KC has arranged a memorial mass for Mr Beynon at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh – to which all friends, colleagues and instructing agents are invited. The mass will be held on Saturday 13 Decem
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A Scottish employment tribunal has dismissed a claim for sex discrimination against a security and defence company in respect of its policy allowing trans individuals to use toilets aligning with their gender identity, after ruling that the policy was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate
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Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UN rights chief says Pakistan constitutional amendments undermine judiciary, rule of law
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A man who repeatedly sent abusive messages which included references to ‘killing Jews’ to a prominent Jewish MP’s constituency office has been sentenced at Leeds Magistrates’ Court. Kevin Smith, 61 and of Leeds, sent around 300 text messages and three voicemails of an abusive
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The die was cast for Mary Queen of Scots on May 16th 1568 when she crossed the Solway into England a few days after the Battle of Langside. Some sought to dissuade her. Archbishop Hamilton even seized the reins of her horse and begged her not to trust herself to England. Mary would have none of it,
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A national review of the evidence on the operation of grooming gangs in Scotland has been announced by the Scottish government.
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A retired Fornethy House teacher who systematically abused vulnerable young children in her care over the course of 15 years has been sentenced. Patricia Robertson, now known as Baxter, abused girls aged five to 12 while volunteering and later working at the residential school in Angus.
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The Scottish Sentencing Council’s new sentencing guidelines on rape offences have been approved by the High Court. The two new guidelines, which cover offences of rape and rape of a young child under the age of 13, were approved at a hearing of the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday. They will
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A judge in the English High Court has set aside a 2014 judgment of the Chancery Division after the claimants, a family of Scottish dairy farmers, raised an action alleging that the decision in favour of the defendants, which upheld the appointment of the second defendant as receiver in relation to a
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With Christmas fast approaching and mince pies mysteriously disappearing across the land, Santa Claus has found himself back in court. Bad Santa is back and is being charged with contravention of the ECHR*.
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Hydrolysis, also known as water cremation, will be introduced under draft regulations laid at Holyrood. The regulations will, if approved, give an option for people interested in alternatives to burial or cremation for the first time in more than a century.
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The Scottish government is pausing it’s proposed changes to legal aid for adults with legal incapacity (AWI) cases, following an intervention by Govan Law Centre. Last month, GLC wrote to the Holyrood's Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee to recommend rejection of a draft Scottish statut
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A leading expert on child sexual abuse has warned that Scotland urgently needs a dedicated inquiry into grooming gangs, saying the scale and nature of exploitation north of the border remains dangerously under-examined. Professor Alexis Jay – who led the landmark investigations into abuse in R
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