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A motorist has been fined after being caught driving in a dedicated carpool lane with a plastic skeleton in the passenger seat. The Halloween decoration, spooky enough in itself, was also wearing a mask resembling that of Ghostface in the Scream horror film series.

A construction company has been fined £215,000 after a worker was seriously injured when a cherry picker was struck by a bus in Castlemilk. North Ayrshire-based McTaggart Construction Limited pled guilty to a breach of construction regulations and health and safety legislation at Glasgow Sheri

The expansion of class action lawsuits is undermining trust in the UK’s business and legal environment, according to a new report by the Adam Smith Institute (ASI).  The increase in class action access and third-party litigation funding has damaged private sector confidence and imposed en

Strathclyde Law School is to welcome Lord Reed to the Technology and Innovation Centre on Monday 28 October to deliver a lecture to mark the 15th anniversary of the Supreme Court. Registrations for the lecture, entitled “Why does the UK Supreme Court matter for Scotland?”, have now ended

British courts' approach to eyewitness evidence is flawed, researchers at Aberdeen University have claimed. A team of researchers led by Dr Travis Seale-Carlisle collated expert opinion gathered from scientists from all over the world on a variety of eyewitness memory phenomena. They found an "almos

Companies House has published its first ever strategic intelligence assessment as it steps up its work to tackle economic crime.  The strategic intelligence assessment gives an analysis of the key threats Companies House faces. It aims to guide future prioritisation, decision making, risk ident

Ireland should decriminalise the possession of all illicit drugs for personal use and adopt a health-led approach to the use and misuse of substances, a committee of the Oireachtas, Ireland's parliament, has recommended. The joint committee on drugs use, which was established to examine and respond

Oakwood Scotland Solicitors has announced the appointment of Alastair Cameron as its new director. With over 26 years of experience in the legal profession, he brings a wealth of expertise in civil litigation, personal injury law, and high-profile cases.

There has been an alarming increase over the past three years in accusations of financial wrongdoing made against journalists in an attempt to silence them, according to a new report from UNESCO. Of 120 cases reviewed by UNESCO dating from 2005-2024, 60 per cent occurred between 2019-2023.

A pizzeria owner has been arrested after it emerged the best-selling item on his menu came with a side of cocaine. Customers who ordered "pizza No. 40" from the unnamed pizzeria in Düsseldorf received both pizza and drugs at their door, DW reports.

The Aberdeen Law Project has successfully cleared a wrongly attributed energy debt for a University of Aberdeen student. Prior to engaging ALP, the client had received several letters stating that she had not paid an energy bill. The matter was then escalated to a debt collection agency. Following v

The Cyber and Fraud Centre has added a new legal partner to its 'cadre' in response to growing cyber security threats in the sector. Scullion LAW, which was targeted in a ransomware attack, earlier this year, is the fourth legal firm to join Cyber and Fraud Centre’s Incident Response Cadre. &n

Kennedys, which has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh, has appointed Meg Catalano as the firm’s global managing partner.  Ms Catalano is currently the regional managing partner for the US and a member of the firm’s five-strong executive group, which is responsible for setting and imp

A rapist who began sexually abusing young girls when he was just 12-years-old has been jailed.

Aberdeen solicitor Stuart Murray has had his practising certificate withdrawn by the Law Society as a probe into financial irregularities gets underway. The former Aberdeen Bar Association president and vice president of the Scottish Solicitors Bar Association is being investigated over his financia