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A devious pair of fishermen narrowly lost a €30,000 cash prize after tournament organisers discovered they had stuffed their catch with lead weights. Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky were found out just before they were due to be awarded $28,760 USD (around €29,000 or £25,305) at the

Legal mental health charity LawCare is asking the legal community to tell ten friends or colleagues about their support service on World Mental Health Day next Monday. The charity, which offers free, confidential, emotional support to anyone working in the law including support staff and law student

Rebekah Vardy has been told to pay more than £1.5 million in legal costs to Coleen Rooney after a judge found that she had purposely destroyed evidence in her libel case. The wife of footballer Jamie Vardy was ordered to make an interim payment of £800,000 within the next six weeks after

The Scottish Law Commission has recommended a new set of rules for the ending of leases of commercial property in Scotland, replacing the existing common law of tacit relocation. At present, tacit relocation – the automatic continuation of a lease at the expiry of the period for which it was g

Four lawyers have stepped down from the Scottish Covid inquiry. The departures follow that of Lady Poole, the inquiry chair, who announced she was leaving the inquiry on Monday.

A serial domestic abuser has been jailed for more than seven years after being found guilty of assaulting four of his ex-partners. Sales advisor Rian Hood, 31, from Kilmarnock, raped one woman, sexually assaulted two others and subjected all his victims to violent attacks.

Anderson Strathern has been named as a supplier on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) legal services framework for the first time. The framework will allow public and third sector organisations, including councils, health and emergency services, education bodies and housing associations, to continue

Terra Firma Chambers will sponsor a Property Bar Association conference which will be held at The Mackenzie Building, Edinburgh on Thursday 10th November 2022. The conference will be chaired by Terra Firma’s Denis Garrity with fellow TFC member Robert Sutherland delivering a recent case update

The legal aid spend per person in Scotland dropped from €33.28 in 2014 to €20.18 in 2020, according to a report from the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ). The European median figure in 2020 was €3.08, but UK legal systems traditionally have some of the largest

An appeal by a man who described himself as suffering from a mental disorder seeking damages for medical negligence has lost an appeal against a sheriff’s decision to delete certain averments from probation in the Sheriff Appeal Court. DD, the pursuer in an action against NHS Fife Health Board

The Law Society of Scotland has congratulated the Scottish Mental Health Law Review on the publication of its final report and urged the Scottish government to avoid delays in moving to the implementation phase.

Rap lyrics can no longer be used in court as evidence of criminality under a new California law. The Decriminalising Artistic Expression Act comes after a number of high-profile trials of rappers raised concerns about freedom of expression and racial bias.

Ian Hamilton KC, famous for the 1950 removal of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey to Scotland, has died at the age of 97.

The European Court of Human Rights made three findings of no violation and one finding of a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights in Mortier v Belgium – a case in which the applicant's mother died by euthanasia. She had not wished to inform her children of her eut

Police Scotland may lose senior officers in the coming months, it has been claimed. A retirement boom is expected at all levels of the single force, with a Scottish Police Authority (SPA) memo indicating the body is “anticipating further senior officers may retire in coming months”.