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Drummond Miller has succeeded in a claim alleging negligence against the Scottish Ambulance Service. In June 2020 Brian O’Neill had an unwitnessed fall at an off-grid rural hutting community with limited connections to local services. He sustained a wound to his head and tragically passed away

Magic circle firm Linklaters is testing artificial intelligence by giving it law exams to determine whether it can reliably perform legal tasks. The firm has created the LinksAI English law benchmark, designed to “test the ability of large language models to answer legal questions.” The

The Crown Office has warned of serious delays as time-bar extensions introduced during the pandemic are set to expire later this year. Between 2019/20 and 2023/24, 9,168 cases were dropped because they broke statutory time-bar limits or were delayed by other agencies.

Google has been fined by a Russian court for hosting YouTube videos which instruct Russian soldiers in Ukraine on how to surrender. The fine of 3.8 million rubles (around €40,000 or £33,000) was imposed by Tagansky District Court in Moscow on Monday, according to Russia's state-owned TASS

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is supporting a new child-centred resource from charity I Am Me Scotland focused on grooming, gangs and crime.  Aimed at young people in secure settings, a series of seven short films highlight the issues of child exploitation and human tra

The scheduled execution tomorrow of a Malaysian man for drug trafficking offences is a source of great alarm, Amnesty International has said. Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, 37, was convicted of importing 51g of heroin into Singapore, where he was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2017.

The Scottish Sentencing Council has launched a new podcast episode on prison sentencing, as part of its Scottish Sentencing Conversations podcast series. The new episode captures the views of people who have knowledge of and expertise in the prison system, and offers insights into prison sentencing

The Law Society of Scotland granted extended rights of audience to an additional 11 new solicitor advocates yesterday.

The 'big six' regional office markets across the UK – Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bristol – are experiencing a significant rise in the number of law firms looking for premium real estate to drive talent attraction and retention, according to Savills. Demand for

Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP (WJM) is to provide expertise free of charge to local businesses looking to make the most of the benefits of the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport (ICFGF). Partner Angus MacLeod, who is the head of the firm's Inverness office, will provide free advice t

Brodies LLP has announced the election of a new chair, with partner Iain Rutherford to take on the role from 1 May 2025. Mr Rutherford will succeed Christine O'Neill KC, who steps down as chair on completion of her fourth, three-year term. Regarded as one of Scotland's leading litigators and an expe

The Scottish Law Commission has published a new report recommending repeal of the Tenancy of Shops (Scotland) Act 1949. If a tenant of a “shop” is unable to obtain renewal of the lease from the landlord, they may instead apply for renewal to the court under the 1949 Act. A “shop&rd

Thousands of criminal cases in Scotland have been abandoned over the past five years due to statutory time-bar limits and delays by police and reporting agencies, The Scotsman reports. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) took no action in over 9,000 cases affected by such delays.

Dear Editor, It was hugely disappointing to read of the survey undertaken by Shared Parenting Scotland which showed a number of family cases were being dealt with by multiple sheriffs.

Executive directors have visited Inverness Justice Centre after elevated levels of radioactive gas were detected there last week. Radon, a naturally occurring gas, comes from small amounts of uranium in rock and soil. Exposure to high levels of it can, however, cause lung cancer.