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Views are being sought on proposals aimed at restricting the appearance of tobacco, vaping and nicotine products and how they are packaged and displayed in shops in Scotland to make them less enticing to children and young people.  The consultation fulfils a 100-day Scottish government commitme

Jersey is set to legalise assisted dying after its new law received royal assent. The draft Assisted Dying (Jersey) Law, approved by the States Assembly earlier this year, was granted royal assent yesterday and will come into force once it is registered by the Royal Court in the coming days.

The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay Graham Linehan, the creator of Father Ted, £25,000 after apologising for his arrest over gender-critical posts on social media. Scotland Yard acknowledged “shortcomings in the investigation, the arrest and the imposition of bail conditions”

4chan has again mocked Ofcom after the regulator renewed demands for payment of its £520,000 Online Safety Act fine, with the platform’s lawyer responding by sending another AI-generated hamster. US lawyer Preston Byrne, who represents 4chan, said on X that Ofcom had sent payment details

Its original forecast of 3.5 per cent average house growth in Scotland for 2026 is under threat due to geopolitical events and related inflationary pressure and interest rates, Rettie has said. While the recent US-Iran peace deal provides some hope that inflation and interest rate rises will be limi

A Dunfermline local is celebrating a career milestone this week, having successfully completed her legal traineeship with Watermans. Robyn Lynch, who obtained her law degree and diploma from the University of Stirling and Robert Gordon University respectfully, celebrated with her team in Dunfermline

Courts will be given tougher powers to impose football banning orders (FBOs) in Scotland to include specific offences in an effort to improve the matchday experience and safety at games. It comes as the analysis of a consultation on FBO legislation has published.

Kirsten Oswald, minister for victims and community safety, visited the University of Strathclyde Mediation Clinic to learn how mediation is helping people and businesses resolve disputes without the time and expense of court proceedings.

Criticism of a football referee’s impartiality can fall within the protection of freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In de Carvalho Marques and Others v Portugal, the court considered six applications

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Turkey intensifies crackdown on public life in run-up to Nato summit in Ankara

The last woman to be executed in the UK has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon following a campaign by her family. Ruth Ellis, who was 28 when she was hanged in 1955 for murdering her partner, David Blakely, has had her death sentence replaced on the official record with life imprisonment.

Addleshaw Goddard and Simmons & Simmons have reported double-digit revenue growth, pushing average pay for their full equity partners above the £1 million mark. Addleshaw Goddard, the UK’s eleventh highest-grossing law firm, increased annual revenue by 17 per cent to £644m. Pro

United Airlines has been forced to defend its claim that a “window seat” does not necessarily need to have a window after a judge rejected its attempt to dismiss a passenger lawsuit. The airline argued that the term referred only to a seat’s position next to the cabin wall, rather

A Hamilton-based company has been fined after a worker died when a series of wall panels collapsed and ejected him from a scissor lift. Steven Tervit had been carrying out a dismantling operation at a specialist technology centre in Renfrew on 9 November 2022 when the incident happened. The 32-year-

A decision to reform an unjust law in Scotland so that victims of deadly cancers caused by asbestos can receive compensation is the "compassionate thing to do", a lawyer has said. “People with ‘pleural plaques’, caused by exposure to asbestos, have three years from diagnosis to mak