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The mayor of Rome has reported a neighbouring regional government to criminal prosecutors over its alleged failure to prevent wild boar from invading the capital city.

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused to direct that the sole executor of a late South African woman who left part of her estate to charity can donate it to a charity with a similar name to a non-existent one named in the will. Vindex Trustees Ltd, the sole executor under the will and

Abuse directed at retail and bar staff who ask customers to comply with the law and wear face coverings will not be tolerated, Justice Secretary Keith Brown has said. It continues to be a legal requirement to wear face coverings in places such as shops and pubs and on public transport unless exempt

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Glasgow-based company DialADeal Scotland Ltd (DDSL) £150,000 for making more than half a million nuisance marketing calls. The unsolicited calls were about non-existent Green Deal energy saving schemes including boiler and window repl

Shared Parenting Scotland’s annual report has revealed the pressure of the pandemic on parents and children after separation. Covering the first year of Covid lockdown, the charity was approached for help, advice and information by close to 1,000 individuals, its highest ever caseload and an i

A series of three briefing papers on the Scottish Parliament’s consideration of proposals to amend retained EU law in devolved areas is now available. The papers have been written by Dr Robert Brett Taylor and Professor Adelyn L M Wilson of the University of Aberdeen as part of a Scottish Parl

When is an agricultural lease not an agricultural lease? An agricultural lease provides a tenant with various rights, including security of occupation for the agreed length of the lease.

A total of 16,269 cases were concluded in all criminal courts between April and June – an increase of 83 per cent on the previous quarter, figures from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service show. The use of remote jury centres, established across Scotland, enabled jury trials to operate at

In a criminal justice system where supporting victims is meant to be a priority, why are answers being hidden from those who need them most? Imagine this scenario. You’ve been involved in a serious road traffic collision; your injuries are so serious that you won’t be able to work for mo

MacRoberts gave a warm welcome to its 12 new trainees who have begun their legal careers at the firm.

A medical committee's decision to refuse a kidney donation from a convicted criminal has been overturned by a court on the basis there is no such thing as a "criminal kidney". A judge in the southern Indian state of Kerala said the organ transplant authorisation committee should not have examined th

An interesting little conundrum for those with too much time on their hands. The flash floods in Edinburgh’s fashionable Stockbridge area earlier this year did significant damage to property, but thankfully, in contrast to similar events in Germany, no lives were lost. For this we may be grate

The Upper Tribunal for Scotland has refused permission for an appeal by two tenants of a tenement apartment seeking to add other proprietors of flats in the same building to their repairing standard application as additional respondents, after it was asked to reconsider its initial decision on the c

Advocates David Nicolson and Dominic Scullion have joined Compass Chambers.

WhatsApp has been slapped with a record €225 million fine by Ireland's data protection watchdog – the largest-ever GDPR fine in Ireland and the second-largest in the EU. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) originally intended to fine WhatsApp between €30 million and €50 million