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Thirty detainees have been released in Denmark because of a glitch with phone operators' geolocation data that has led to the review of more than 10,700 cases. Police in Denmark began looking at the issue when they found a bug in software that converts data from mobile towers to render it useable by

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Police are looking for thieves who stole bells from grazing cows in the Austrian mountains. "Of course people may wonder why someone would steal a cowbell," Bernhard Gruber, a police spokesman from the Tyrol region, told AFP.

The High Court in London has issued its full reasons for rejecting a legal challenge against the decision to suspend business in the UK Parliament for five weeks in the run-up to “Brexit”. Businesswoman Gina Miller had argued that Prime Minister Boris Johnson&rsq

Downing Street was yesterday forced to repudiate comments made by a Number 10 insider questioning the impartiality of Scotland's judiciary in the wake of the Inner House's judgment in Cherry. An anonymous Downing Street source told The Sun: "We note that last week the High Court in London did not ru

The High Court bench that heard the Miller case against prorogation was essentially a constitutional court, formed without any democratic debate, an academic has said. In a letter to The Times, Professor David Campbell, of Lancaster University Law School, said of the court: "However it is styled, th

After 35 years last month in the profession, 20 of them spent in senior management positions, including client relations manager, in a large firm practising in the higher risk areas of executries, litigation, family and residential conveyancing, I thought it would take more than a determination from

Police failed to send help to a man who was assaulted three times, and who eventually required facial reconstructive surgery, despite receiving multiple 999 calls. The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) reports found that a controller at Bilston Glen Area Control Room (ACR)

The first digital evidential hearing in a simple procedure case took place last month in Aberdeen Sheriff Court. This was a significant event as it introduced the first civil case in the UK to be processed from end to end by digital means.

Offenders will be required to contribute to the cost of supporting victims of crime from November. A new financial penalty will be imposed on all criminals who are sentenced to pay a court fine and the money raised will be banked in the Victim Surcharge Fund.

The latest Registers of Scotland (ROS) quarterly report revealed that between April and June 2019, the number of residential properties sold in Scotland was up by 4.6 per cent compared to the same period last year. This increase was particularly pronounced in Argyll and Bute, which saw the greatest

A court has ruled that an employee who died engaged in amorous congress while on a business trip was the victim of a workplace accident. The technician had been sent to Loiret in north west France and ended up sleeping with a "complete stranger".

It is "as if the prorogation order had never existed" following this morning's judgment from the Inner House of the Court of Session in Cherry – a "remarkable" case that could have "lasting implications for our constitution, for the reviewability of major prerogative powers and

The majority of the public do not think an organisation should both regulate lawyers and represent them, according to a poll commissioned by the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC). The YouGov poll of the public on various issues around legal regulation found that 19 per cent of the public f

Gilson Gray has expanded with the takeover of Coulters Lettings. This acquisition sees experts Sam Paulo and Marcus DiRollo, the founders of Coulters Lettings, join Gilson Gray along with their entire staff.