A woman accused by a shopkeeper of squeezing a bag of buns has been charged with criminal damage in Japan. The 40-year-old woman insisted that she had "only checked the firmness" of the buns by "pressing lightly with my hand", the BBC reports.
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Dundee University is set to shut down its forensic science research hub, putting 24 jobs at risk as the institution grapples with a £30 million budget shortfall, The Courier reports. Staff at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science were informed of the decision by centre director P
Elon Musk's X is to pay $10 million to US president Donald Trump to settle his lawsuit over his suspension in 2021 from what was then Twitter. Mr Trump was banned from most major social media platforms after hundreds of his supporters stormed the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021 in a bid to ove
Beginning on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, new 10-part series You Do Not Have to Say Anything, presented by defence barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind, lifts the curtain on the real criminal justice system and the real people working within it. From our sofas in Britain, we lap up docuseries and podcasts scru
Current legal mechanisms to challenge and dispose of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are not fit for purpose and a new process is needed, according to new research. SLAPPs are lawsuits that are used, often by wealthy and powerful people, to prevent the publication of informa
A man caught with a quantity of chemicals that could have been used to manufacture homemade explosives as well as being in possession of thousands of indecent images of children has been jailed for a total of 44 months. Ryan O’Donnell, 37, stored the substances, including potassium nitrate, ni
The discretionary fatal accident inquiry into the death of baby Sophia Smith will commence at 10:00am on 17 February at Glasgow Sheriff Court. Newborn Sophia died at the Royal Hospital for Children at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus, Glasgow, on 11 April 2017.
A new bill has been introduced in the House of Commons to lift the ban on Catholics serving as the King’s representative at the Church of Scotland’s annual general assembly. Lady Eilish Angiolini KC, a practising Catholic and former lord advocate, has been appointed as the lord high comm
DWF has announced 15 promotions across its Edinburgh and Glasgow offices. This includes a promotion to director for Caroline Coyle and Danny McClymont. Insurance lawyers Maggie Keir, Harriet Tooley and Rachel Heathcote were promoted to senior associate alongside tax and private capital lawyer, Zita
Consumer Scotland has published guidance for public bodies on the new consumer duty. The consumer duty, which comes fully into force in April, was introduced under the Consumer Scotland Act 2020.
House prices in Scotland began 2025 in 'growth mode', according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, and they are expected to continue rising into the three months ahead. A net balance of 45 per cent of respondents in Scotland reported a rise in ho
From Burns to Mackintosh to Capaldi: Scotland has been home to some of the world's most celebrated poets, artists and musicians. Here at the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, we are aware of many members who practise their creativity with brush or plectrum with the same prodigious flair as they do
A judge has reversed the £32.5 million sale of a London mansion whose owner failed to disclose it was infested with moths. New owners and residents Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak said they began to encounter dozens of moths every day, including on their towels and toothbrushes and in t
Land acquisition by public bodies has a stronger role to play to address Scotland’s rural housing crisis, according to a new report issued by the Scottish Land Commission. The report outlines key actions needed to ensure a steady supply of land for much-needed rural housing, using publicly own