A man charged with car theft was arrested again after allegedly showing up to court in another stolen car. The 34-year-old was arrested just after attending court in a town near Adelaide, Australia on a charge of illegally using a motor vehicle.
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A Hebridean crofting couple who raised an action for damages after a neighbours’ bull strayed onto their land and impregnated their pedigree cow have had their claim dismissed. Bernard and Kathleen Allen, from Great Bernera on Lewis, went to court to pursue a reported £20,000 i
DWF Group plc, with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, saw revenue growth of 15 per cent in a "milestone year" which saw it become the largest listed full-service legal business on the London Stock Exchange. In an inaugural results statement, the group said revenue was up by 15 per cent, or 12.5 per
Andrew Foyle reasons that new case law on calling up notices has simply raised more questions for lawyers in search of answers. In 2010 the Supreme Court ruled that in every case where a secured creditor seeks possession of a property following a monetary default, a calling up notice must be served.
Academics have called on the Scottish government to uphold sex-based protections in the Equality Act 2010 and to facilitate open debate on sex and gender identity issues in a paper that claims democratic policy-making has become vulnerable to ideologically-driven lobbying, namely from transgender ri
More than 30 organisations working with migrants and refugees have written to the new Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to raise a number of pressing issues "which require action if the immigration and asylum system is to regain the trust of the public". The letter, whose signatories include representati
Professor R. Daniel Kelemen, professor of political science and law and Jean Monnet chair in European Union politics at Rutgers University, writes on the change of leadership in the UK and the EU. The incoming President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the new Prime Minister of th
‘Countless’ lives at risk from UK government’s ‘dangerously short-sighted’ approach to death penalty
Human rights NGO Reprieve has intervened in a UK Supreme Court case arguing that the Home Secretary is putting British lives around the globe at risk by refusing to seek death penalty assurances from the US for two men currently held in Syria. Maha Elgizouli V Secretary of State for the Home Departm
Dominic Grieve QC, the former Attorney General for England and Wales, has narrowly beaten Joanna Cherry QC in the SLN poll that asked readers which lawyer and parliamentarian had conducted themselves most admirably from a legal perspective during the current Brexit debacle. Labour’s Sir K
RBS Legal has been going the extra mile to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds take their first steps into a legal career.
A man has won the right to exhume his great-great-grandparents amid fears admirers of George Orwell will trample their grave. The Daily Mail reports that William Hanks has secured permission from a judge to safeguard his ancestors' remains, which are buried in the churchyard of All Saints Churc
Confused police officers in Glasgow burst into the wrong home and ordered a bewildered young man to drop his boxers and lift up his testicles in a botched drug raid. The Gracey family – Joe, 60; Jacqueline, 56; Anthony, 23; Andrew, 32; and Ellie, 11 – were woken by the early morning raid
A homeowner who was unable to maintain his monthly mortgage payments has successfully challenged his lender’s bid to repossess the property after appealing against a sheriff’s decision that the bank had validly served a calling-up notice. The Sheriff Appeal Court ruled that a &
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that all courts and tribunals have an inherent jurisdiction to grant access to court documents in a judgment reaffirming the principle of open justice. Lady Hale, delivering the judgment, urged the bodies responsible for framing the court rules in each part of the UK t
Shepherd and Wedderburn has been appointed to all six lots of the new Scottish Government Legal Services Framework following a competitive tender process. The four-year framework will be open to Scottish government public sector organisations, and is effective from 1 August 2019.