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Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. A War That Targets Women: Sudan’s Silent Crisis

The Sheriff Appeal Court has held that there is no competence for an appeal against a sheriff’s refusal to sign a warrant for an initial writ after a man attempted to challenge the refusal of his case against his neighbour, after finding that the refusal could not constitute a final judgment i

The Care Home Swindler, the reader is told, purports to be, and is, the "gripping inside story" of a care home owner who took vast sums of money from his residents, with "an expose of the terrifying reality of what happens to the elderly behind closed doors". The care home owner, the reader is advis

To the ‘silver city of the North’, as it was once styled, and home to Scotland’s other Faculty of Advocates. Aberdeen is in the economic doldrums following the downturn in the North Sea, the current government’s reluctance to ‘drill baby drill’ and the failure of

A defamation lawsuit filed by FBI director Kash Patel sharply criticising The Atlantic’s journalistic standards contains numerous spelling and copy-editing errors. The 19-page complaint, lodged in federal court in Washington, D.C., accuses the publication and a reporter of knowingly publishing

Macdonald Henderson has advised Paper Shredding Services (PSS), a Glasgow-based provider of secure, compliant collection and destruction services on its disposal to Restore Datashred, the UK data management and recycling services group. PSS serves clients throughout Scotland across public and privat

The number of personal injury claims made following road traffic collisions is in sharp decline, writes Thomas Mitchell. Data from the government’s Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) revealed that only 63,833 claims were registered with the CRU in the fourth quarter of 2025. This is down 24 per

A local government trainee and an early career solicitor working in finance have been crowned the Law Society of Scotland’s 2026 In-house Rising Stars. Selected from a strong field of 13 nominees, this year’s winners of the annual competition for early career in-house talent are:

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of Robert Garvock. Mr Garvock, a 68-year-old senior recovery operator from Longside, Aberdeenshire, was recovering a stolen van which was on its side down an embankment on the B999

Families of the 29 people killed in the RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre have welcomed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's agreement to meet them, describing it as a “significant and long overdue step” towards truth and accountability. The commitment came after Tessa Munt raised th

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has condemned the adoption by the Israeli Knesset of a law extending the death penalty in a way that “has clear discriminatory effects against Palestinians” and urged the country to repeal or invalidate it. Approving a report by

Fergus Spowart and Sinéad Pow discuss why the construction industry needs a more strategic approach to debt recovery, what steps businesses can take and how these measures can protect cash flow while maintaining commercial relationships in an increasingly pressured market.  In the Scotti

Addleshaw Goddard has announced the promotion of Ryan Openshaw to partner as part of the firm's 2026 round of promotions. Mr Openshaw, a lawyer in the firm’s commercial disputes team who is based in the firm's Aberdeen office at Prime Four Business Park, is part of a 17-strong cohort promoted