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Aberdeen University's School of Law hosted two Taiwanese scholars as part of its Visiting Researchers Programme. The School of Law hosted Yea-Jen Tseng, professor of international law at the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and Hsin-Chih Chen, professor at the Department of Poli

A chocolate factory has been fined after workers fell into a vat of chocolate and became trapped in it. The Mars Wrigley factory in Pennsylvania was fined $14,500 by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) over the "serious" incident, CBS reports.

The theme for this year’s LGBT+ History Month is ‘Behind the Lens’. Its aim is to celebrate LGBT+ people's contribution to the production of film and cinema from ‘behind the lens’. Roles that are celebrated include directors, producers, writers, score composers, artists

An appeal by a child accused of wilful fire-raising against a sheriff’s decision to extend the 12-month time bar in respect of his case, which had yet to proceed to a trial diet, has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Appellant BS was accused of setting fire to the Wester Hailes Edu

New York veterinarians are being flooded with stoned dogs which have eaten discarded cannabis following the legalisation of the drug. Since the legalisation of recreational cannabis in 2021, vets in the city are seeing a huge increase in cases of confused canines in their clinics, according to The N

Gwyneth King recently published an opinion piece claiming to set out some facts about the Equality Act as it relates to gender recognition reform. Almost everything she wrote is wrong, writes Dr Michael Foran. King argues that the default position in the Equality Act is that treating a trans woman a

The recent focus on Britain’s involvement in slavery has obscured the fact that slavery also existed in Scotland, writes Robert Shiels.

Highland Health Board has been fined £180,000 after the death of a vulnerable 78-year-old man due to a lack of nursing staff. NHS Highland pled guilty to a breach of health and safety regulations at Inverness Sheriff Court on 31 January 2023.

Sandra Cassels discusses the recent changes to the law of prescription and their impact on latent defects in construction projects. The expiry of claims for damages in Scotland is regulated by the Prescription & Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973. Section 6 of the 1973 Act provides that claims

Last year, the Scottish housing market broke the record for £1 million+ sales in a year, with 504 transactions passing the landmark price, according to a new report. The figures from property firm Rettie & Co., who were involved in the sale of more than one in five transactions in excess o

Thursday 23 March at 6pm - MacKenzie Building, Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh From 2015 until the pandemic interrupted in 2020, one of the most active charitable endeavours in the Scottish legal world was the Tumbling Lassie appeal, led by a committee of advocates.

Edinburgh Napier’s Lewis Hay and Michael Kerr have won this year’s Lord Jones Moot Competition, becoming the first team from the university to do so. Held at the University of Dundee this month, Napier beat Glasgow’s Emily Provan and Sophia Alvi in the final, which was judged by La

A Lord Ordinary has overturned a decision of the City of Edinburgh Council to limit the number of adult entertainment venues in the city to zero from April 2023 after a group of club owners applied for a judicial review of the decision. Kaagobot Ltd, Y11JTR Ltd, and Netherview Ltd, as well as an emp

An American pizza shop which refused to serve a group of police officers has become the focal point of an inter-departmental row over police conduct. The Pizza Squared restaurant in San Francisco faced a deluge of bad reviews after the SF Police Officers Association (POA) said a number of officers w

The cousin of Emmett Till has sued to force a Mississippi sheriff to arrest a woman who allegedly caused the kidnapping, torture and murder of the 14-year-old boy in 1955. Relatives and members of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation found the 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant while searching a Mi