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Iranian authorities have been condemned over their cruel treatment of jailed British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has suffered panic attacks in prison and collapsed this week. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been experiencing the attacks since she was forced to return to Tehran’

An anonymous litigant-in-person has been ordered to identify himself to avoid his proceedings against Google in the High Court in London being struck out, the Law Society Gazette reports. The claimant, known only as ABC, has managed to conceal his identity from court staff, the defendant and the jud

Terra Firma Chambers will once again sponsor the Scottish Planning and Environmental Law (SPEL) Annual Conference which will be held on Thursday 13th September at the COSLA Conference Centre, Edinburgh. Now in its 28th year, the SPEL Conference will focus broadly on two main themes - the Planning (S

The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, and the High Court's designated arbitration judge, Mr Justice David Barniville, are set to launch the New York chapter of Arbitration Ireland next month. The event, designed to highlight the attractiveness of Ireland as a seat for arbitration an

Two men who allegedly went on a bin-stealing spree have been caught by police. Kenneth Brooks, 50, and Nicola Weydeveld, 19, were spotted by a security guard with a suspicious number of rubbish bins.

In December 1864, Mary Pritchard became seriously ill and experienced retching and headaches. She was suffering the effects of antimony poisoning at the hands of her husband, Dr Edward Pritchard, who would become the last man to be publicly hanged in Glasgow. When her mother, Mrs Jane Taylor, moved

The requirement that a claimant of widowed parent’s allowance must have been married to or have been the civil partner of the deceased unjustifiably discriminates against the survivor and/or the children on the basis of their marital or birth status, justices in the Supreme Court have ruled. T

Proposals for greater case management of family actions in the Sheriff Court have been generally endorsed by the Faculty of Advocates. While disagreeing with some specific recommendations, the Faculty welcomed the aim of reducing drift and delay.

Scotland's incidence of financial crime has risen by nearly one-third quarter-on-quarter, while violent crime has fallen, The Herald reports. According to Police Scotland's management information report, there were 1,955 incidents of fraud in the first quarter of 2017-18.

Former First Minister Alex Salmond who began crowdfunding his legal fees last night for his judicial review case at the Court of Session exceeded his target in a matter of hours. Mr Salmond sought £50,000 to cover the fees involved in seeking judicial review of the Permanent Secretary to the S

DLA Piper has bolstered its construction team in Scotland with the appointment of Ross Campbell to its construction & engineering practice in Edinburgh. Mr Campbell joins as legal director from Eversheds Sutherland with over 20 years' experience of energy, infrastructure and real estate developm

A report has found that police failed to make diligent enquiries to trace a 72-year-old man who had made a 999 call for an ambulance before he was found dead in his home, at supported accommodation in Inverness, the following day. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) instructed the

More than 100 Britons who were resettled abroad in the post-war period are to sue the UK government over abuse they suffered, the BBC reports. The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) said in March that 2,000 people should be compensated within a year.

Proposals to establish a biometrics commissioner to provide independent oversight of biometric data used by the police and others in Scotland and an associated statutory code of practice are out for consultation. Scotland is the only nation in the UK missing an independent body to oversee biometric