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JUSTICE has welcomed a decision of the European Court of Human Rights that stayed the removal of an asylum seeker to Rwanda as part of deal between the UK and Rwandan governments. The human rights organisation said the policy of transferring asylum seekers to Rwanda risks denying individuals effecti

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Apple abused its market dominance after misleading iPhone users with an update that actually slowed devices down, a tribunal will be told. Twenty-five million British people could become eligible for hundreds of pounds each if campaigner Justin Gutmann wins his case at the Competition Appeals Tribun

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An Edinburgh GP has been jailed for four years for the rape of a woman he met through an online dating site. Dr Manesh Gill, 39, was sentenced to four years imprisonment after being found guilty of sexually assaulting his victim when they met for the first time.

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A bill that enshrines in law the Scottish government’s commitment to making Scotland a 'Good Food Nation', has been passed. The approach aims to create links between policy at the national and local levels, with government, local authorities and health boards all creating good food nation plan

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Animal rights advocates have failed to persuade a court that an elephant named Happy who was captured at the age of one and brought to the US is legally a person. New York's highest appeals court ruled by 5-2 that Asian elephant Happy, who was born in the wild in Thailand, has not been illegally det

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Tributes have been paid to Ian Balfour, a scion of the Edinburgh law firm Balfour and Manson, who has died aged 89. Mr Balfour, whose grandfather co-founded the firm in 1887, remained active after retiring as senior partner with Balfour and Manson in 1998 and, until late last year, was working as jo

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Macdonald Henderson has advised the shareholders of Capital Payroll Services on its disposal to TopSource Worldwide, an employer services, payroll and Employer of Record service provider. This is the fifth acquisition since TopSource Worldwide received investment from Horizon Capital in December 202

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