Magna Carta provides justification for restricting jury trials to only the most serious offences, a cabinet minister has claimed, prompting accusations that Labour is “selectively quoting” the charter to defend sweeping proposed reforms. Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime min
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Legislation to correct an error in law for owners of unoccupied properties’ liability to pay non-domestic rates has been published. The Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Act 2020 devolved to councils the power to provide discounts to owners of unoccupied properties from 1 April 2023.
The first discretionary fatal accident inquiry (FAI) in relation to the procurator fiscal’s ongoing investigation into Covid-related deaths has commenced with the lodging of a first notice into the death of Donald Singer. Mr Singer, 66, a crane operator working offshore on the Ninian Sou
Justice Secretary David Lammy is considering major curbs on the ancient right to be tried by a jury, with proposals to guarantee it only for defendants facing charges such as rape, murder, manslaughter or other offences meeting a public-interest threshold. A leaked internal briefing prepared by the
A lord ordinary has retrospectively certified six expert witnesses instructed by two homebuyers to report on alleged defects in a property they purchased from a developer in their second action arising from the purchase of the property, having held that it would be uneconomical to prevent them from
When Fiona Pask took on the head of Scotland role at Shakespeare Martineau earlier this year it looked like the firm was finally going to be able to pursue the kind of growth it had planned since launching in Edinburgh in 2020. The Scottish government’s long-awaited Regulation of Legal Service
Concentrated ownership, absentee landlords and a lack of transparency in how land is managed are some of the concerns the public has over land in Scotland according to a new report, published by the Scottish Land Commission. Developed through the ScotLand Futures initiative, the report reflect
Survivors who escaped El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur State have told Amnesty International how fighters with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) executed scores of unarmed men and raped dozens of women and girls as they captured the city. Amnesty International researchers interviewed survivors w
A majority of Scots agree that school pupils should decide for themselves whether to take part in religious observance, a new poll has found. The research, conducted by Survation on behalf of Humanist Society Scotland, revealed that support for an independent pupil opt-out from religious obser
A private hire taxi driver in Glasgow who was rear-ended by another driver while waiting at traffic lights has been awarded £2,184 in damages after the defender’s expert witness, who initially took the view that no crash had occurred, contradicted his own written report in light of the e
Two former presidents have been nominated to stand as president of the Law Society of Scotland. John Mulholland who was president of the Society in 2019/20 and Susan Murray, president in 2024/25, have chosen to stand for the role for a second time.
