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Paul Weller, musician and former frontman of The Jam and the Style Council, has launched legal action against his former accountants after they resigned because he publicly accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. Mr Weller was a client of Leigh Genis of Harris and Trotter LLP for more than 30 years, unt

Hundreds of thousands of people living in new-build homes in Scotland are being excluded from jury service because outdated court IT systems do not recognise their addresses. Jurors are selected at random from a national address database, but senior court officials admit the system cannot process po

A convicted murderer has lost an appeal against the 22-year length of the punishment part of his life sentence in which he argued that such a long period was not justified because the murder was committed spontaneously rather than being premeditated. Appellant John Farquhar, 59, pled guilty to the m

The director of a century-old Scottish machinery firm which went into administration last year has been banned after failing to declare more than £1.5 million in VAT.

W​ith modern slavery and people trafficking on the rise, we must stay vigilant in Scotland, writes Sheriff Maryam Labaki. There’s a brand-new Scottish musical coming to Glasgow this August, based on a remarkable story drawn straight from our legal past.

Indonesia's human rights minister has called for a crackdown on the flying of a straw-wearing skull-and-crossbones flag from a popular Japanese anime. An online protest movement has encouraged members of the public to raise the pirate flag from TV series One Piece in place of the Indonesian flag, Th

A Scottish charity specialising in post-adoption support and advice has been fined £18,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office after it destroyed approximately 4,800 personal records – up to 10 percent of which may be irreplaceable – because it was running out of space in its

There were five reasonable precautions a contractor could have taken to prevent the death of a child who fell down an open manhole in an incident in 2020, a sheriff has found. Sheriff Stuart Reid has published his determination in the fatal accident inquiry into the death of Shéa Ryan.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called on the Scottish government to urgently drive down the use of remand and invest in credible community orders after new figures showed an increase in the prison population. In June 2025 (up until the morning of Tuesday 1st July 2025):

River Test The River Test in Hampshire has become the second waterway in the UK to be recognised as a legal entity, following a unanimous vote by Test Valley Borough Council to grant it “personhood”.

A lord ordinary has refused to order the return of two children to the USA after their father raised a petition for orders under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, after finding that the children had expressed clear objections to their return and were at risk of harm due to their father obtai

A commercial judge has recalled a warrant for diligence on the dependence by arrestment and inhibition granted based on an action raised in England by a Scottish offshore company after finding that there was no real or substantial risk that justified the warrant’s continuation. James Fisher Of

A group of people smugglers who hid migrants in lorries have been jailed. The organised crime group – consisting of Azize Benaniba, 41; Mahmoud Haidous, 53; Mohamed Bechkit, 36; Abed Karrouz, 40; Amor Ghabbari, 32; Mohamed Abdelhadi, 50; and Mohamed Bouriche, 43 – would arrange to meet m

A lord ordinary has refused a judicial review application by the “limbs in the loch” killer based on a February 2024 decision of the Parole Board for Scotland to again refuse to release him on licence after finding that he still presented a risk to the public. William Beggs, who was conv

An appeal by an HGV driver against his dismissal by a haulage company based in Aberlour has succeeded before the Employment Appeal Tribunal after it found that the Employment Tribunal had erred in its approach to the law of constructive dismissal. Claimant and appellant James Marshall brought a clai