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A man who attacked his dog with an iron and a bottle and struck it with his fists during a prolonged beating has been imprisoned for nine months and banned from owning animals for life. Daniel Murphy’s one-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier was left yelping and trembling in fear as he inflict

The number of Scottish prisoners who have broken prison rules has increased every year since 2022, with almost 100,000 rule breaks in that time, according to new figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives, who have said such prisoners should not be considered for early release. Responses to free

A unique research initiative aimed at deepening understanding of domestic abuse in Scotland has been awarded a Research Collaboration Grant by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). The project, entitled Domestic Abuse in Scotland: Towards a Holistic Understanding, will be led by Dr Ilona Cairns from

Govan Law Centre (GLC) has joined with the Glasgow Times to call for greater protection for women using taxis to get home at night. GLC has asked Glasgow City Council to reconsider allowing a women-only taxi firm to be licensed as a woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a taxi driver spoke t

Hundreds of thousands of people living in new-build homes in Scotland are being excluded from jury service because outdated court IT systems do not recognise their addresses.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 lord ordinary has refused permission for group proceedings arising from defective hernia mesh products after finding that the 18 claims were not suitably similar or identical to each other as to be appropriate for group procedure. Applicant Michelle Donnelly sought to become the representative par

Five international organisations concerned with protest rights and civil liberties have written to Attorney General Richard Hermer, urging him to delay making a decision on whether to prosecute the hundreds of peaceful protesters arrested for holding placards expressing support for Palestine Action,

The Faculty of Advocates will again support the Scottish Legal Walks as a national sponsor alongside the Law Society of Scotland.

Syrian fighters affiliated with the country's interim government carried out "widespread and systematic" violence against Alawi civilians which likely amounted to war crimes, according to a new UN report. The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry yesterday published a 66-page report on the wave of violence

Millions of people involved in running UK businesses will be required to verify their identity with Companies House from the middle of November, writes Gary Gray. The identity verification requirements form part of a suite of strengthened corporate governance and transparency measures being implemen

A man who defrauded businesses out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been sentenced to five years in prison following a prosecution by the Crown Office. Barry Mackland was found guilty by a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh of defrauding three agricultural firms in a swindle worth £630,

On 8 August a Court of Session commercial judge refused to make a first order in a petition to wind up a company, declining to authorise its intimation and service. Instead the judge granted the respondents’ motion to dismiss the petition. The company had lodged a caveat and appeared by counse

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

Scotland has never quite had an artist like John Bellany, and probably never will again. Correction: delete ‘probably’. His work has had a force and an impact which few of his generation could replicate, and he was so doggedly sui generis that we must hesitate to classify him as simply S