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Terra Firma Chambers’ Fred Mackintosh QC and Aidan O’Neil QC of Ampersand Advocates have successfully represented the appellant in an appeal before the Supreme Court against the decision of the Scottish ministers to extradite him to the US. The Supreme Court decided that the extradition

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a seminar on Capital Allowances at the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Thursday 3 March 2022.   At this event, Stephen Foster of Grant Thornton, will consider:

A British citizen whose extradition was sought by the US authorities over alleged fraud has had his ECHR appeal unanimously allowed by justices in the Supreme Court. Lord Reed gave the sole judgment, with which Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Kitchin, Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens agreed.

Legal restrictions imposed due to the pandemic are to be lifted next month. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed the details of the updated strategic framework to manage Covid-19 primarily through public health advice, vaccination, and treatment rather than legal restrictions.

A strategy to combat serious organised crime has been updated. The new Serious Organised Crime Taskforce Strategy will see "better collaboration" across all sectors, the Scottish government said.

Journalist and former UK government minister Chris Mullin is to contest an order served on him by police to seek source material relating to the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. Mr Mullin's 1986 book, Error of Judgement: The Truth About The Birmingham Bombings, helped to expose the miscarriage of justi

The level of cases concluded in Scotland's courts is 77 per cent of the average pre-Covid level, new figures show. The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service has published its latest monthly workbook to show the throughput of criminal cases in the courts.

A man who allegedly used an illegal signal jammer to stop his kids from going online at night is facing prosecution after inadvertently disrupting internet access for his entire town. France's National Frequency Agency (ANFR) launched an investigation after a mobile phone operator reported night-tim

Police officers may refuse to answer questions over the death of Sheku Bayoh if their answers could incriminate them, an inquiry has been told. At a preliminary hearing over the public inquiry into the death of Mr Bayoh in May 2015, lawyers warned there could be “unanswered questions and uncer

Colombia's top court has ruled that abortion during the first 24 weeks of a pregnancy is not a crime. The landmark ruling was approved by the Latin American country's Constitutional Court by 5-4 and has been welcomed by human rights campaigners.

The Scottish Law Commission is seeking views on a new discussion paper on damages for personal injury.  Damages for personal injury are a sensitive type of civil claim because they involve a delicate balance of interests. The principle of restitutio in integrum – putting a person in the p

A Lord Ordinary has determined that guidance issued by the National Records of Scotland on answering a question in the 2022 Scottish census is legally valid after it was challenged by an organisation that campaigns for biological sex-based rights of women and girls in the UK. It was contended by Fai

Sheriff Brian Lockhart has passed away at the age of 79. Born in Ayr in 1942, he was admitted as a solicitor in 1964 and was made partner at Robertson Chalmers & Auld in 1967. He became a temporary sheriff in 1977, a floating sheriff of North Strathclyde at Paisley in 1979 and then resident sher

The Calabrian mafia has allegedly been converting cocaine into “coal” to avoid alerting the authorities when importing the product from Colombia. The supposed scheme emerged after 65 people were arrested, including two police officers.

Gibson Kerr has made a number of appointments and promotions. Nadine Martin, who joined the firm in 2021 as a senior associate, has been promoted to legal director, which coincides with her being certified by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in trauma-informed practice.