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Russia has been censured by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for failing to provide legal recognition and protection for same-sex couples. In a Grand Chamber judgment handed down on Tuesday, the court held by a 14–3 majority that Russia had violated Article 8 of the European Con

Three former lawyers and two other men who masterminded a £1.48 million bank and property money-laundering operation have been jailed for a total of 30 years and four months. Solicitors Iain Robertson, Alastair Blackwood and David Lyons along with Mohammed Aziz and Robert Ferguson, were handed

An appeal by a landlord against a payment order for £6,000 under the Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011 has been allowed by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland after he successfully argued that he ought to have been given an opportunity to make representations. Appellant Shoukat K

A distinguished Pakistani lawyer was shot dead at Peshawar High Court on Monday. Latif Afridi, a champion of human rights who took on the Taliban and the country's notoriously powerful military, was shot six times at point-blank range.

Protesters in Sri Lanka have embarrassed police after responding to the deployment of water cannons by putting shampoo in their hair. Photos shared widely on social media show grinning protesters taking the novel move when confronted with water cannons at an anti-government protest in the city of Ja

The former lord chancellor who oversaw the introduction of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 has criticised the UK government's deployment of the "nuclear option" of vetoing Scotland's gender recognition reforms. Lord Falconer of Thoroton KC said the statement of reasons published yesterday by Scottis

The law must be toughened up to make intentionally deceiving a person into engaging in sexual activity a crime, according to a new report published today. The latest Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRN Network) report calls for a change to the law, which would make deceiving a person to induce the

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A farmer has been acquitted of culpable homicide by failing to maintain a tractor and trailer that sped out of control down a hill and crushed a motorist to death and seriously injured two others.

A grey-haired banker who complained about being nicknamed “Christine Lagarde” has failed in a £4.6 million discrimination claim after a judge ruled that jokes about grey hair were “part of the irritation of day-to-day office life”. Elisabeth Maugars joined the London of

Approximately one per cent of the population are either trans women, trans men or non-binary. Trans people don’t identify as the gender they were assigned at birth. Being transgender is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act (“gender reassignment”) – it is unlawful

Members of the family of British champion of the European Convention on Human Rights, David Maxwell Fyfe, have sung in protest at UK government plans to withdraw from the Convention. In the wake of the ‘small boat’ crisis in the Channel, the UK government is threatening to take the UK ou

The Scottish branch of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), a global intellectual property association, has unveiled a programme of events for 2023. The programme will offer intellectual property and technology professionals, and all those with an interest in commercialising IP, the opportunity t

Lindsays has welcomed senior solicitor Omar Mohammed to the firm. Mr Mohammed has advised clients on all matters relating to residential property including the sale and purchase of property, transfers of title, new build purchases, government scheme purchases (LIFT, First Home Fund and Help to Buy),

The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal against a sheriff’s decision that an application for a financial award by a former cohabitant was made timeously by virtue of being lodged with the sheriff court before the deadline, even if it had not been served on the defender in that period. P