An investigation into police conduct during the failed takeover of Rangers FC has still not begun, more than a decade after what were later found to be malicious prosecutions, The Times reports. Following the club’s collapse in 2012, David Grier, David Whitehouse and Paul Clark of Duff & P
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An accelerated review of legal aid reform will take place in Northern Ireland following a breakthrough in talks between justice minister Naomi Long and striking criminal barristers. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) began a withdrawal of services from all legally-aided Crown Court cases at the star
The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal against the grant of a residence order without a proof in favour of the mother of two children raised by the father on the grounds of judicial bias and systemic procedural failings after ruling that there was no merit to any of his substantive complaint
A 24-year-old convicted drug dealer who pled guilty to two charges of supplying cannabis and was imprisoned for six years and three months has lost an appeal against his sentence after it was ruled that the application of sentencing guidelines for class A drugs offences from England had not resulted
Will Cole surveys recent irritancy cases in the wake of a new judgment. In Scotland, commercial tenants who breach their lease obligations may find their leases terminated by “irritancy”. Since the 1980s, the lease provisions in question have been rendered less draconian by provisions in
A trade union is calling for a new law to safeguard transport workers in Scotland against a sharp rise in assaults. Gordon Martin, the RMT’s Scottish organiser, said he has heard “horrendous” stories from members of being spat on, abused, threatened and attacked at work.
Glasgow University mourns the loss of beloved colleague and friend, Professor Emilios Christodoulidis, who passed away at the age of 62 in the early hours of Tuesday, 3 February 2026. Emilios was a leading scholar in legal theory and the philosophy of law. He held the chair of jurisprudence at the S
France’s National Assembly has approved a bill that would bar under-15s from accessing social media, a move backed by President Emmanuel Macron. Parliamentarians in the lower house voted 116–23 late on Monday to approve the core provisions of the legislation, which would prevent young te
An appeal by a man refused compensation following the lifting of an account freezing order over two of his bank accounts under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session after it confirmed that no exceptional circumstances applied that were sufficient
A Crown appeal against the length of a sentence imposed on a man who assaulted his partner by repeatedly dropping her, causing her to require two operations on her skull and severely reducing her quality of life, has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary after it found that the sentence impos
A man who backed out of an agreement to purchase a home after its price plummeted has been ordered to pay nearly half of the expected sale price.
Dear Editor, I do not dissent from any of the substance of Prof Hartmann’s article Trump’s Greenland Demands Threaten International Legal Order; but I express my discomfort at the use of the expression “rules-based international order”. That, and similar phrases, have been pr
An appeal by an Iranian asylum seeker against a council’s decision that he was over the age of 18 has been allowed by the Inner House of the Court of Session to the extent of determining that the petition had not been academic, however the petition was nonetheless refused on the basis that ade
A City solicitor who falsely claimed he needed cancer treatment and submitted a forged medical letter to his employer has been struck off. Soham Panchamiya, who had previously been treated for cancer, told his manager at Reed Smith that the illness had returned and that he needed to take a week off
The High Court of Justiciary has refused a Crown appeal against a nine-year prison sentence imposed on a man who deceived elderly victims into letting him into their homes and then stole from them after determining that the sole charge of assault of which he was found guilty did not merit an order f
