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Websites that are more than one-third pornographic will have to verify the age of UK visitors under a newly passed law. While the regulations had been delayed as the government sought to amend them, age verification checks will become active from April.

Hundreds of students have signed a petition calling on the University of Oxford to sack a law professor with "extremely discriminatory views against many groups of disadvantaged people". John Finnis, emeritus professor of law and legal philosophy, retired in 2010 but continues to co-teach seminars f

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in favour of an Azerbaijani journalist who was subject to a sex-tape smear campaign after investigating government corruption. The ECtHR ruled that the Azerbaijani authorities failed to investigate a “sex video” of Radio Free Europe re

Dr Kim Barker of Stirling Law School and Dr Olga Jurasz of the Open University Law School are hosting an evening reception at the Royal Scots Club in Edinburgh on 5 February 2019 to mark the launch of their new book: Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation. The book assesse

On 1 December 2017, new legislation came into force which transferred jurisdiction in relation to applications in Private Sector Rented Cases and Private Residential Tenancies to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber. Civil cases relating to the private rented sector are

Police have apologised to a man whose £40,000 car was stolen twice in the same day, the second time from a secure police compound. Robbers armed with knives broke into the home of Phil Chambers, 30, and his fiancé to steal the keys to the Audi RS3.

A Scottish local authority which entered into missives for the sale of land to a property developer and subsequently granted planning permission for the redevelopment of the site was not entitled to rescind the contract on the basis that the appropriate fee had not been paid when the planning applic

Legislation will be introduced this year to close potential loopholes in the law protecting foxes and other wild mammals.   Delivering a statement to Parliament on improving animal welfare, rural affairs minister Mairi Gougeon announced her intention to bring forward a bill that will imple

Commercial litigation specialist Naomi Pryde has joined DWF from Dentons UKMEA LLP. Ms Pryde has particular experience in complex contract disputes, property litigations and the recovery of assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and her work spans English, Scottish and international market

Glasgow firm Miller Samuel Hill Brown LLP (MSHB) has appointed Marie Macdonald as its new chairman, succeeding founding partner, Michael Samuel, who continues as a consultant. Ms Macdonald becomes the first woman to chair MSHB, one of Scotland’s longest-established legal practices.

Advocate General Szpunar proposes that the Court of Justice of the European Union should limit the scope of the dereferencing that search engine operators are required to carry out to the EU. By decision of 21 May 2015, the President of the French Commission nationale de l’informatique et des

At the High Court in Edinburgh today, Lord Arthurson sentenced a 17-year-old girl to detention for life with a punishment part of 16 years after the accused was found guilty of the murder of 18-year-old Connor Cowper. On sentencing, Lord Arthurson made the statement below in court. At some time

President of the Supreme Court Lady Hale has said in a rare political comment that austerity has made life more difficult for the poor. In a speech delivered last month at the Isle of Man Law Society, but only published yesterday, the judge said: “While some families are fighting for legal rec

Chartered legal executives in England and Wales are pushing to be recognised as lawyers on par with solicitors and barristers as part of any post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the European Union. The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has argued the lack of recognition for legal

The Welsh government has been accused by opposition parties of breaching devolution legislation by appointing its independent legal adviser as its Brexit minster. Jeremy Miles, Assembly Member for Neath, will continue in the role of Counsel General for Wales, which he has held since November 2017, a