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Over the past year, our And finally section – with the most absurd, offbeat, strange or funny legal stories – has kept our readership entertained.Here, we list our 10 most popular stories of 2016:

A consumer whose legal dispute over the purchase and return of a laptop 18 years ago spawned a litigation which ended up in the UK Supreme Court has failed in a £600,000 action against the bank which he claimed “annihilated” his credit rating. Richard Durkin, 46, who was eventually awarded just

Court documents should be more readily accessible, an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has proposed. Regulation No 1049/2001 obliges the Commission to grant a third party access to the pleadings submitted by a member state, of which it holds a copy, in a case that has a

Maya Foa Police Scotland provided training to senior officers from the Saudi and Bahraini police forces without carrying out any human rights checks, freedom of information requests by international human rights organisation Reprieve and BBC Scotland have revealed.

Mike Dailly A woman who alleges staff at Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course unlawfully filmed her has been permitted to seek damages.

EU law does not, in principle, prevent a member state from opposing collective redundancies in certain circumstances in the interests of the protection of workers and of employment. However, under such national legislation, which must in that case seek to reconcile and strike a fair balance between,

Scottish Legal News would like to thank work colleagues and friends who raised over £500 in cash and gifts for Syrian refugees in Dundee. SLN editor Graham Ogilvy said: “The Syrians were very grateful for the help and support of our staff and friends.

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, has speculated in a speech to lawyers in Wales that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon become better than QCs at predicting the outcome of cases. Speaking at Legal Wales: Shaping The Future, Lord Thomas said: "The most importa

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book on Ireland's Supreme Court comes highly recommended by Seosamh Gráinséir. Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book reads with such ease that you tend to forget that you’re reading an extensively researched chronicle of the cases that have shaped Ireland. Each chapter serves to

Caroline Gardner Reports finding that Scotland’s police “continue to suffer from weak financial leadership and considerable budget pressures” and that “urgent work is still needed to strengthen their finance function and improve their scrutiny governance” have been published today.

An energy company which raised an action against an engineering contractor after a major tunnel collapsed at an electricity generation scheme has had a £130 million claim dismissed by a judge in the Court of Session. Lord Woolman (pictured) found against Scottish & Southern Energy in its claim

Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston

Legal bodies have welcomed Luxembourg's ruling on indiscriminate retention of data as a blow to legislation that undermines legal professional privilege (LPP). The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that EU law precludes national legislation that prescribes general and indiscriminate reten

Ireland must recover the sum of €8 per passenger from airlines benefiting from unlawful state aid because the difference between the lower and normal rates of the Irish air travel tax constitutes unlawful aid which must be recovered regardless of the benefit the airlines actually derived from the

More than twenty summary sheriffs have been appointed to a role created as part of major reform of Scotland’s courts. The new judicial office of summary sheriff was created to deal with some types of civil and criminal cases in the sheriff court.