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Ahead of a major ruling of the Supreme Court next month, Cat MacLean takes a look at the jurisprudence of online fraud. Read part one here. Following the Appeal Court decision in Philipp, Sekers settled in due course for a substantial six-figure sum. Meantime, though, Barclays were given leave to ap

The looming constitutional court clash over Scotland's proposed gender reforms is the subject of a new article by writer and former practising lawyer Helen Dale. Ms Dale, who has law degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh, details the background to the bill and the rationale for the UK government's oppos

Local authorities have fined a man for “praying for [his] son, who is deceased” near an abortion facility in Bournemouth. Adam Smith-Connor stood still and silent on the public street for a few minutes before being approached by “community safety accredited officers”.

A concert venue contractor is facing a lawsuit from a woman who drove home drunk and blew up four houses. Canadian woman Daniella Leis, 26, severed a gas line when she crashed her car on the way home from a Marilyn Manson concert, leading to an explosion which destroyed four homes.

Ahead of a major ruling of the Supreme Court next month, Cat MacLean takes a look at the jurisprudence of online fraud. Part two follows tomorrow. Online fraud has been on the rise for many years. The pace of attacks has quickened with the pandemic and the advent of working from home. In most cases,

The rule of law should be put at the centre of new efforts to define Britishness and Britain’s place in the world of the 21st century, a think-tank says today. The Social Market Foundation said that Britain’s trusted legal system and tradition of fair play can help bind together the nati

TLT has advised global private asset management firm Capital Dynamics on the sale of a 27.5MW operational onshore wind portfolio consisting of three assets located in Fife, County Durham and Bedfordshire. The sale formed part of Capital Dynamics’ realisation of Capital Dynamics Clean Energy an

An Inverness-based property company has been fined £80,000 after a 64-year-old asbestos surveyor died following an electrical explosion. Global Energy Nigg Limited pled guilty to a health and safety breach committed on 10 December 2020 at Tain Sheriff Court on 18 January 2023.

Squaring Circles founder and senior mediator, Rachael Bicknell, has been appointed to the Panel of Mediators for the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Arbitration Centre. The ADGM Arbitration Centre serves the international dispute resolution community through its panel of accredited and experienced me

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

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

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