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A senior corporate lawyer has come forward to claim a mysterious pile of cash seemingly abandoned near rubbish bins. Thai lawyer Thaweewat Sengkaew turned up at a police station to claim ownership of the 12 million baht in cash (around £272,300).

Property and violent crime combined and the likelihood of being a victim of these crimes has increased since 2021/22, Scotland's flagship justice survey shows. However, the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) shows no change as compared with the pre-pandemic year of 2019/20, and both measures a

Scullion LAW has welcomed Darren Fleming to its road traffic and criminal law team. ​Kris Buchanan, head of the team said: “Darren brings to the team a wealth of knowledge and experience from the High Court, having acted as junior counsel to some of the country’s leading KCs, and in so

The University and College Union has successfully defended claims made against it in the Employment Tribunal by two UCU members who argued they had been discriminated against and harassed by the union because of their gender critical beliefs. The case relates to UCU's Edinburgh University branch opp

Plans for the dead to be ‘cremated’ in boiling water before being flushed down the drain could soon be approved. A review by the Law Commission of England and Wales could clear the way for new funeral practices such as alkaline hydrolysis – sometimes dubbed "water cremation" &ndash

Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria are still being neglected by the country’s authorities, one year after Amnesty International’s report and launch of the #EmpowerOurGirls campaign. In June 2024, Amnesty International published 'Help us build our

Fearless, the youth service of independent charity Crimestoppers, has launched a new Scotland-wide education resource, aimed at helping young people better understand, recognise and respond to sextortion.  The launch at Meldrum Academy in Aberdeenshire marks a key milestone in Fearless’ s

Legislation has been amended to ensure veterans who receive a payment from the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme do not lose out on council tax support.   More than 1,200 people in Scotland who served under and suffered from the ban on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) personne

Harper Macleod is now part of a new initiative: the next phase of the UK Space Agency Accelerator. The programme is designed to support space entrepreneurs across the UK, helping them grow their businesses and strengthen the wider space sector.

Public inquiries are imposing an "escalating and unsustainable burden" on Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) has claimed, citing a growing financial and operational crisis exacerbated by six major inquiries currently under way. In evidence submitted to Holyrood’s Finance and

Scotland’s criminal defence solicitors are to withdraw from a new flagship summary justice scheme in protest at the Scottish government’s failure to increase legal aid rates. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) has confirmed that its members will no longer participate in imple

A drugs trafficker who tried to smuggle cannabis worth more than £1 million into Scotland from a car ferry has been jailed for three years and two months. Police officers discovered the controlled drugs after carrying out a search of Chace Cappellie’s vehicle at the Stena Line port at Ca

A runaway zebra has been caught by police and airlifted back to his owner after absconding for over a week. Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee said the zebra, named Ed, was finally tracked down on Sunday after several sightings.

On 4 June the Supreme Court hosted an event entitled 'The Future of International Law', which saw court President Lord Reed in conversation with Lord Lloyd-Jones and Professor Dapo Akande.  The event was attended by senior representatives from the legal world, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Deve

More than 2,000 blades, alongside guns, ammunition and other weapons, were confiscated at Scottish court buildings over the past year, newly released figures show. Data obtained by the Daily Record through a freedom of information request reveals that security staff intercepted thousands of weapons