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Craig Naylor is to be appointed as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland. Mr Naylor is currently deputy director of investigations at the National Crime Agency. He has over 30 years' policing experience including as deputy chief constable in Lincolnshire Police and as a divisiona

The Scottish Parliament has backed the Scottish government’s call to refuse legislative consent on the UK government’s Subsidy Control Bill. Business minister Ivan McKee said that the legislation, which replaces state aid rules lost as a result of the UK’s exit from the European Un

The cross-party Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee has revealed “concerns” about Parliament’s lack of ability to scrutinise and amend emergency provisions in the Coronavirus Act over the last two years. In a new analysis published today, the committee critic

The Sheriff Appeal Court has ruled that a sheriff hearing a divorce action was entitled to find that the relevant date on which the parties ceased cohabiting fell after a period in which the husband was staying regularly at the matrimonial home at his wife’s invitation. The sheriff had found t

Ed Sheeran's High Court copyright cases has revealed that he and his co-writers earn about £5 million a year from the song in dispute, Shape of You, despite royalties being frozen. The case between Sheeran and rival songwriter Sami Chokri heard that when royalties for the song were frozen in M

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The International Court of Justice has ordered Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine. “The Russian Federation shall immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on Feb 24, 2022 on the territory of Ukraine,” judges at the United Nations’ highest court said in a 13-2

Criminal barristers are to go ahead with industrial action as the UK government's proposed cash injection for legal aid would amount to no more than an extra £100 per month for each of them. Jo Sidhu QC, chairman of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), said practitioners “have made it abs

Thorntons has announced the appointment of five new trainees, with a further 12 to join in September.

UK ministers have laid out plans to cap the costs of libel lawsuits and make claimants prove “actual malice” so as to deter legal action commonly used by Russian oligarchs to intimidate journalists and stop publication of their links to Vladimir Putin. The UK government said it would see

A national target will be introduced to ensure more people with problematic opiate drug use are accessing life-saving community treatments. There are currently around 29,500 people using Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST). Under the new target, announced today by drugs policy minister Angela Constanc

St Patrick’s Day has long been a date of special significance in the Irish diaspora calendar, with Irish communities across the world marking the occasion with parades and céilís. This year in particular will see millions of people celebrating the day together for the first time

Claire Mitchell QC will deliver the Glasgow Caledonian University Law and the Common Good Lecture 2022. The lecture will take place on Zoom on Wednesday 23 March at 6pm. The Law and the Common Good Lecture is supported by The Clark Foundation for Legal Education. It is an annual lecture delivered by

An English couple that lost over £700,000 to an “authorised push payment” fraud have won a High Court appeal seeking to establish that it was possible their bank owed them a duty of care. Fiona Philipp, the appellant, argued that Barclays Bank owed her a duty of care to be alert to

An emerging international agreement to waive certain intellectual property rights in relation to Covid-19 vaccines has been criticised by civil society groups as a "half-measure". India and South Africa have led calls since October 2020 for certain parts of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of