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Practices and processes for claims in Scotland’s personal injury civil court system have changed a lot in the last 10 years. So where are we now, and what lies ahead? Vikki Melville takes a look. Probably the most significant change in the last decade was the opening, in 2015, of the All-Scotl

An employment tribunal has found that the NHS Fife Health Board harassed a nurse by failing to revoke a trans doctor’s permission to use a female changing room until they were on separate shifts and taking an unreasonable length of time to investigate allegations against her, but dismissed the

Victims who participate in proceedings at the International Criminal Court are unlikely to be fully representative of the communities harmed by the crimes that have been charged, a new study warns. The research shows there are a wide range of barriers to certain groups participating in court action,

Dear Editor, I confess that it was with some considerable dismay that I read Dr Corsino San Miguel’s article in yesterday's Scottish Legal News, The last candle in Old College, and I believe that it ought not to go unanswered. In my view, Dr San Miguel’s unmistakable enthusiasm for artif

Ofcom has fined Virgin Media £23.8 million after it disconnected telecare customers during its programme to migrate customers to digital landlines. Landline phone calls have traditionally been delivered over a copper-based network known as the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

Tom Lawrie, lecturer in law at Glasgow Caledonian University, reflects on changes in how law is taught. Teaching law in a Scottish university long meant gathering students in their hundreds in lecture theatres and explaining complex substantive legal concepts in a structured and consistent way. Smal

A Livingston sheriff who heard a preliminary proof in an action for child contact has made an ex tempore judgment finding that the father seeking the contact order had sexually abused his child once in August 2020 and then again at a contact visit in March 2021, with the action later being dismissed

A petition by a community council seeking reduction of a decision of Argyll & Bute Council to appoint a preferred developer in respect of turning land it owned next to Helensburgh’s pier into a supermarket has been refused after it was found that no duty of fairness was owed in respect of

A Crown appeal against what it considered an unduly lenient extended sentence imposed on a man who caused his partner’s car to crash after pulling the handbrake, having previously detained her and her children in his house and assaulted them, has resulted in the sentence being lengthened by fo

Provisional IRA members could still be prosecuted in relation to dozens of unsolved killings in England, the UK government has suggested. The Northern Ireland Office yesterday circulated what it said was a Home Office list of attacks in England by the IRA and other paramilitaries which resulted in 7

The High Court of Justiciary has ruled that a sheriff’s decision to conduct a jury trial entirely in the absence of an accused who refused to attend court and smeared himself with faeces to prevent himself from being transported amounted to a miscarriage of justice as he had been excluded from

Reed Smith has successfully advised the appellants in a shipping case that focused on the 1881 judgment of Mackay v Dick. In King Crude Carriers SA and others v Ridgebury November LLC and others, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the Court of Appeal’s judgment that the sellers had

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of the Scottish courts since 2013 in relation to the admission of evidence in trials for sexual offences is liable to infringe defendants’ rights under Article 6 ECHR but dismissed two appeals on that basis presented to the court after finding t

An English court has upheld a sentence imposed on a 16-year-old male for a prolonged assault on an older man recovering from a stroke but quashed six concurrent sentences imposed in respect of other offences considered at the same sentencing diet. It was argued on behalf of the appellant, referred t

Ahsan Mustafa looks at the impact of recent changes to debt recovery rules. Seven months have now passed since the Diligence against Earnings (Variation) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 came into effect. The changes, which amended parts of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987, updated how much of a person&rs