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The UK government has formally begun the process of repealing aspects of controversial Northern Ireland legacy legislation which were found to be incompatible with human rights law. A remedial order was introduced in Westminster yesterday to remove the immunity provisions and bar on new civil claims

A man who allegedly posed as a commercial airline pilot to fly for free is facing up to 20 years' imprisonment. Canadian man Dallas Pokornik, 33, has been extradited to the US from Panama to face charges of wire fraud.

The Law Society of Scotland has published its priorities ahead of the upcoming Holyrood election, focusing on six key areas. The Law Society has produced Justice Matters – What Scotland’s Political Parties Must Deliver at the 2026 Parliament Election, urging candidates across the politic

The prosecution of Hong Kong activists for commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown is a further escalation in the authorities’ weaponisation of national security laws to silence dissent, Amnesty International said today at the opening of the activists’ trial. Lawyer Chow Hang-tung and

The Scottish government has been accused of incompetence after a minister failed to bring forward promised legislation to remove free bus passes from young people involved in antisocial behaviour. Connectivity minister Jim Fairlie was supposed to introduce secondary legislation on Tuesday but admitt

Dear Editor, I do not dissent from any of the substance of Prof Hartmann’s article Trump’s Greenland Demands Threaten International Legal Order; but I express my discomfort at the use of the expression “rules-based international order”. That, and similar phrases, have been pr

The Judicial Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2026-2030 for England and Wales has been published, setting out a framework for the judiciary’s diversity and inclusion work over the next five years. The strategy builds on the previous programme, which ran from 2020-2025, and is accompanied by a

The next edition of CLT Scotland’s popular Scots Law Series will be returning to the Hilton Glasgow on 16 and 17 March with delegates able to choose from 10 individual conferences. Roy Spiers, CLT Scotland’s director of programmes, said: “We are absolutely delighted to attract such

A house master found guilty of sexually abusing and assaulting vulnerable children at a residential school has been sentenced. William Brydson committed the offences while employed as Head of Care at Monken Hadley, latterly known as Woodlands School, in Newton Stewart.

Thorntons has been re-selected as an approved supplier to a major legal services framework established to support the further and higher education sector. Following a competitive process, the firm was appointed to all eight lots on the new Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) Le

Pizza Hut has threatened legal action against an allegedly fake outlet following its grand opening by a Pakistani government minister. Pakistan's defence minister, Khawaja Asif, was filmed cutting the ribbon to mark the opening of the new restaurant at a military base near Sialkot.

The UK's home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has been criticised after naming the panopticon as her model for the British criminal justice system. In an interview with Tony Blair, Ms Mahmood – who served as the UK's justice secretary from July 2024 to September 2025 – said her vision in tha

A City solicitor who falsely claimed he needed cancer treatment and submitted a forged medical letter to his employer has been struck off. Soham Panchamiya, who had previously been treated for cancer, told his manager at Reed Smith that the illness had returned and that he needed to take a week off

The Scottish Arbitration Centre has announced that Duncan Bagshaw has been appointed to the board of the centre and has stepped down as Registrar to take up that position. Andrew Mackenzie, the current CEO, will take over the responsibilities as Registrar.  Mr Mackenzie will be supported by Reb

New regulations to protect tenants from damp and mould will be laid at Holyrood. The Investigation and Commencement of Repair (Scotland) Regulations 2026 will introduce new duties on landlords to investigate reports of damp and mould and start any repairs needed within a set timescale if approved by