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A barrister who alleges he was unlawfully arrested at a picket line while working as a trade union lawyer has launched legal proceedings against the Metropolitan Police. Franck Magennis of Garden Court Chambers was arrested in January while attending a picket in support of striking security guards a

A fox has been revealed as the culprit of a shoe-stealing spree after it was caught red-handed with a pair of stolen flip-flops. Residents of the Zehlendorf neighbourhood in Berlin had reported to the local media that around 100 shoes had mysteriously gone missing from outside homes.

An appeal by five people, who claimed to have right of access over the driveway of a house in Aberdeen, of a decision that the right of access is restricted to only two of them has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session.  Ian Hawthorne and others raised the reclaiming

A joint investigation into the derailing of a train at Stonehaven yesterday has been ordered by the Lord Advocate. Three people died on Wednesday when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven. The train is thought to have hit a landslide caused by heavy rain and thunderstorms on Tues

The Judicial Institute for Scotland has published a new resource to aid practitioners appearing in solemn trials in the High Court from July 2020.Restarting Jury Trials: Information for Practitioners is based in large part on a briefing paper which was initially drawn up to support those judges

The Constitution Secretary has outlined to MSPs how the UK government’s plans for a post-Brexit internal market would "threaten high standards and a range of devolved policies". Giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Constitution Committee, Michael Russell said the Scot

Alan Delaney looks at the approach taken by the ICO during the COVID-19 crisis. Last month the ICO updated its guidance on the regulatory approach it intends to take during the current COVID-19 crisis. This guidance provides employers with some degree of comfort that where they are struggling to com

Judgment in a tax case will be handed down by the Supreme Court next Wednesday via video link. Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Respondent) v Parry and others (Appellants) is principally about whether the pension scheme transfer by the late Mrs Rachel Staveley, an

Law firm DLA Piper has set up a £150 million funding pot and joined the litigation financing market. The firm has struck a deal with a currently unnamed funder to create a fund which will be aimed at clients that want to shift the costs of litigation and arbitration off their balance sheets, T

Lawyer Willie McIntyre is back with his latest novel – Bad Debt, the sixth in his Robbie Munro series. In his latest outing, the follow-up to last year's Fixed Odds, Robbie Munro defends an accused and his wife Joanna prosecutes, so they take different views of the law.

An Irish academic who evaded arrest at protests against Alexander Lukashenko a decade ago has said the COVID-19 crisis and years of economic decline have weakened the Belarusian ruler's authority. Dr Donnacha Ó Beacháin, associate professor at DCU School of Law and Government, spe

It's the subject of poems and songs and even has a statue devoted to its memory – Kate Scarborough tells the story of the famous 'Turra Coo'. At the beginning of the 20th century, the government introduced the National Insurance Act 1911, which required employers to make compulsory contributio

Trowels will be left in 90 lay-bys in parts of the Highlands for people who desperately need the toilet to dig a hole and deposit their waste. Lochbroom Community Council Chairman Topher Dawson said the trowels would be an "emergency, last resort" for people who cannot access toilets.

A civil liberties campaigner who appealed a decision of the Divisional Court that the use of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology by the South Wales Police Force was compatible with Article 8 of the ECHR has succeeded in respect of three of the five appeal grounds.  The appellant, 

Social distancing guidelines were not always followed at a prison in which six inmates have tested positive for coronavirus. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland found that staff at HMP Kilmarnock occasionally failed to wear personal protective equipment when they were unable to observe the two-m