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Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being investigated for potential criminal offences arising from his efforts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. Mr Giuliani will face a special grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia today, which is investigating alleged election interference in the state.

A man rescued from a collapsed makeshift tunnel near the Vatican has been arrested on suspicion of attempting an elaborate bank heist. Italian police believe that the man and three others were attempting to dig a tunnel into a nearby bank, the BBC reports.

Two murder trials set to begin in Aberdeen and Inverness will be recorded for a TV documentary and a podcast. The trial of Christopher Harrison before the High Court in Aberdeen for the murder of Brenda Page in 1978 will be filmed for the BBC's Murder Case TV series.

Thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal will each receive an interim compensation payment of £100,000, the UK government has announced. Payments will be made in England by the end of October, while the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have respon

More than £7.3 million worth of repairs are needed across Scotland's court estate — equal to almost the entire £8 million capital budget of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS). The SCTS set out the estimated cost of maintenance work required to fix leaky roofs, ceiling

The backlog in the Scottish criminal courts has reduced by 7,500 trials since the start of the year, according to new figures. The latest monthly workbook from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) shows the overall level of new cases registered in July 2022 was 78 per cent of the average

A public consultation is seeking views on formal debt recovery mechanisms (diligence) and statutory debt solutions such as moratorium protection, bankruptcy, protected trust deeds and the debt arrangement scheme. The consultation, running until 7 October 2022, forms part of a wide-ranging review ann

Police hunting for a convicted car thief have said they found him hiding inside a giant teddy bear. Joshua Dobson, 18, fled after being sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for theft of a motor vehicle, driving while disqualified and making off from a petrol station without payment.

Lawyers acting for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange have filed a lawsuit against the CIA over the agency's alleged surveillance of their confidential discussions with their client. The suit has been brought in New York by attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, along with journalists C

Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull is to be appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice next year. On his appointment, Sheriff Principal Aisha Anwar, currently the sheriff principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway, will transfer to his current Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin.

Prominent solicitor Cat MacLean has been appointed to the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland (JABS). Ms MacLean, a partner and head of dispute resolution at MBM Commercial LLP, has been appointed as a legal member for a four-year term until 31 May 2026.

It's hardly a surprise that the article in yesterday's Times (also covered in Scottish Legal News) concerning implanting electronic chips into lawyers' brains has been met with incredulity from the readers of that venerable organ. The readers' comments are mostly along the lines of "this must be a s

Human rights lawyer Kavita Chetty has joined the Scottish government as deputy director for human rights and mainstreaming. Ms Chetty, formerly head of legal and strategy at the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC), has been appointed on a fixed-term basis for up to three years.

Power has been restored in Edinburgh Sheriff Court after an outage yesterday afternoon forced the adjournment of some business. In a statement issued yesterday at 3pm, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) said all business for Edinburgh Sheriff and JP Court "has been adjourned for the re

Parliamentary privilege would be extended to members of the Scottish Parliament under plans set out by Liz Truss ahead of a Tory leadership hustings in Perth this evening. At present, MSPs — like members of the devolved assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland — do not have the same free