Belgium's former king will be fined €5,000 a day until he agrees to take part in a court-ordered paternity test. King Albert II, who abdicated in 2013, was ordered last year to submit to a DNA test after a woman claiming to be his daughter took out court proceedings.
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A vulnerable woman who was made the subject of a hospital-based care and treatment order has had an application to prevent disclosure of her identity dismissed by appeal judges. The mental health patient, who had lodged an appeal against a decision of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland&nbs
The existing presumption against short prison sentences will be extended from three to 12 months and come into force this summer, subject to the approval of the Scottish Parliament. People released from a custodial sentence of 12 months or less are reconvicted nearly twice as often as those sen
People who help ill relatives die are being spared jail sentences and shown leniency, it has been claimed. Campaigners have identified a number of cases where people who have helped others to end their lives have not been jailed and, in some cases, have not even been prosecuted.
Artisan cheesemakers have dropped legal action against a food watchdog over safety guidelines. Producers, among them Errington Cheese, which defeated South Lanarkshire Council over safety rules and an order preventing the sale of its cheeses, sought judicial review of guidance standards produced by
More than a third of priests in the Anglican church in Scotland have been bullied, a report has found. A survey of Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) clergy found a “negative atmosphere which can foster bullying and harassment” in the church, The Times reports.
A member of the Faculty of Advocates has hit a six in the world of cricket umpiring. David McLean has been appointed to the ICC Development Panel of International Umpires. He becomes one of three Scotland representatives on the panel.
Ayla Iridag has been elected president of the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association, following the organisation's AGM this week. Ms Iridag is a litigation solicitor at Clyde & Co in Edinburgh and has been a member of the SYLA committee since 2016.
Jodi Gordon calls for swift action on road safety to help tackle pollution and health problems. Last month, Green MP Caroline Lucas invited Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish school girl, to address Westminster ministers after inspiring the school climate strikes movement. She criticised the UK f
Edinburgh Napier Law Clinic will host the eighth annual Scottish University Law Clinic Network Conference next month. The day will open with some words from the incoming president of the Law Society, John Mulholland, and close with a keynote from John Sturrock QC, founder and senior mediator at Core
Morton Fraser's annual More for Lawyers conference took place yesterday.
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Irish Legal News assistant editor Connor Beaton reviews an account of the 1922 battle between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which all but destroyed the Four Courts, home to the superior courts of Ireland. For the last four years, the dome of the Four Courts in the heart of Dubli
The heiress to a famous German biscuit company has come under fire for saying the company "did nothing wrong" by using slave labour in the Nazi era. Verena Bahlsen, 25, is an entrepreneur and the great-granddaughter of Hermann Bahlsen, creator of the Choco-Leibniz biscuits produced by the Bahlsen co
A house-builder has successfully appealed against a Scottish local authority’s decision to refuse planning permission for a new residential development. Persimmon Homes’ application for a 62-home development on a brownfield site in Dundee was refused by Dundee City Council, a d