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A man who backed out of an agreement to purchase a home after its price plummeted has been ordered to pay nearly half of the expected sale price.

A manufacturer of paper packaging has been fined £433,333 after a worker suffered a severe skull fracture and permanent injuries when a 4.5-ton machine fell on him. Matthew King was working for Multi Packaging Solutions UK Limited at its East Kilbride site on 31 October 2023 when he was struck

The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published a scathing report on French prisons and detention facilities. During this visit, the CPT visited 14 police and gendarmerie detention facilities, four prisons (Fleury-M

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israeli prisons are akin to ‘torture camps’, Israeli rights group finds

The Criminal Justice Committee has set out the two positions of its members on support for the general principles of the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill, with four committee members in favour of the bill proceeding to stage two and four against. The bill, introduced by Ash Regan

The UK government has formally begun the process of repealing aspects of controversial Northern Ireland legacy legislation which were found to be incompatible with human rights law. A remedial order was introduced in Westminster yesterday to remove the immunity provisions and bar on new civil claims

A man who allegedly posed as a commercial airline pilot to fly for free is facing up to 20 years' imprisonment. Canadian man Dallas Pokornik, 33, has been extradited to the US from Panama to face charges of wire fraud.

The Law Society of Scotland has published its priorities ahead of the upcoming Holyrood election, focusing on six key areas. The Law Society has produced Justice Matters – What Scotland’s Political Parties Must Deliver at the 2026 Parliament Election, urging candidates across the politic

The prosecution of Hong Kong activists for commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown is a further escalation in the authorities’ weaponisation of national security laws to silence dissent, Amnesty International said today at the opening of the activists’ trial. Lawyer Chow Hang-tung and

The Scottish government has been accused of incompetence after a minister failed to bring forward promised legislation to remove free bus passes from young people involved in antisocial behaviour. Connectivity minister Jim Fairlie was supposed to introduce secondary legislation on Tuesday but admitt

Dear Editor, I do not dissent from any of the substance of Prof Hartmann’s article Trump’s Greenland Demands Threaten International Legal Order; but I express my discomfort at the use of the expression “rules-based international order”. That, and similar phrases, have been pr

The Judicial Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 for England and Wales has been published, setting out a framework for the judiciary’s diversity and inclusion work over the next five years. The strategy builds on the previous programme, which ran from 2020-2025, and is accompanied by a

A house master found guilty of sexually abusing and assaulting vulnerable children at a residential school has been sentenced. William Brydson committed the offences while employed as Head of Care at Monken Hadley, latterly known as Woodlands School, in Newton Stewart.

Thorntons has been re-selected as an approved supplier to a major legal services framework established to support the further and higher education sector. Following a competitive process, the firm was appointed to all eight lots on the new Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) Le

Pizza Hut has threatened legal action against an allegedly fake outlet following its grand opening by a Pakistani government minister. Pakistan's defence minister, Khawaja Asif, was filmed cutting the ribbon to mark the opening of the new restaurant at a military base near Sialkot.