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The UK government must reveal more passages of internal documents assessing the human rights situation in Rwanda which were drawn up before ministers adopted a controversial asylum policy, a court has ruled. Lawyers acting for foreign secretary Liz Truss had asked the High Court to grant public inte

The owner of Ladbrokes, Coral and other gambling brands is to pay £17 million after social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures at its online and land-based businesses.

A partner at a City of London firm has been sanctioned for wrongly advising her clients that they could share a Zoom link for a remote court hearing. Ziva Robertson, partner at US-headquartered McDermott Will & Emery, received a written rebuke from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Mo

Harper Macleod has appointed Bill Stark to the firm as a debt and asset recovery consultant. Mr Stark, who joins from Morton Fraser, specialises in all debtor or creditor positions across the public and private sectors, including B2B/B2C commercial debt, consumer credit, debt, asset finance, invoice

Inverness firm Munro & Noble has welcomed Elaine Gamba as its newest commercial property solicitor. Ms Gamba recently completed her traineeship with the firm, having joined it in June 2015 as a PA to its then commercial partner.

Shepherd and Wedderburn has appointed six new lawyers to its rural team, including accredited agricultural law specialists Petra Grunenberg and Ellen Eunson. Ms Grunenberg, who previously led the rural team at Blackadders, will join as a partner in September, while Ms Eunson has already joined as a

Lord Lloyd-Jones has been re-appointed to the Supreme Court alongside new justice Sir David Richards. The retired justice's reappointment has been made possible the increasing of the mandatory judicial retirement age earlier this year from 70 to 75.

Independent Scottish law firm Gillespie Macandrew has reported turnover of £15 million in the year ending 28 February 2022, a double-digit increase of 12 per cent on the previous year. Gillespie Macandrew ended its financial year in a strong position exceeding pre-pandemic revenue levels and r

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being investigated for potential criminal offences arising from his efforts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. Mr Giuliani will face a special grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia today, which is investigating alleged election interference in the state.

A man rescued from a collapsed makeshift tunnel near the Vatican has been arrested on suspicion of attempting an elaborate bank heist. Italian police believe that the man and three others were attempting to dig a tunnel into a nearby bank, the BBC reports.

Two murder trials set to begin in Aberdeen and Inverness will be recorded for a TV documentary and a podcast. The trial of Christopher Harrison before the High Court in Aberdeen for the murder of Brenda Page in 1978 will be filmed for the BBC's Murder Case TV series.

Thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal will each receive an interim compensation payment of £100,000, the UK government has announced. Payments will be made in England by the end of October, while the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have respon

More than £7.3 million worth of repairs are needed across Scotland's court estate — equal to almost the entire £8 million capital budget of the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS). The SCTS set out the estimated cost of maintenance work required to fix leaky roofs, ceiling

The backlog in the Scottish criminal courts has reduced by 7,500 trials since the start of the year, according to new figures. The latest monthly workbook from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) shows the overall level of new cases registered in July 2022 was 78 per cent of the average

A public consultation is seeking views on formal debt recovery mechanisms (diligence) and statutory debt solutions such as moratorium protection, bankruptcy, protected trust deeds and the debt arrangement scheme. The consultation, running until 7 October 2022, forms part of a wide-ranging review ann