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Over the course of 2024, Scottish Legal News published more than 240 articles in our popular And Finally section – sharing offbeat and weird legal news stories from around the world.
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Nov 22, 2024 · Pop singer Katy Perry has won a 15-year-long trade mark dispute with a fashion designer called Katie Perry. The American pop star – whose real name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson – launched the legal action in 2009 after Australian …
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Dec 17, 2024 · A former soldier has lost an English Court of Appeal challenge against a refusal to allow him an appeal against the decision that a condition that he developed in both his calves after he left the army had not been caused or made worse by his military service. Christopher McCalla, who served in the ...
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Dec 20, 2024 · An engineering company has been fined after a labourer died during the construction of a wind farm on the Shetland Islands. Liam MacDonald, from Tain, Ross-shire, lost his life on the morning of 5 June 2022 while removing dried concrete from a skip at the Viking site on Upper Kergord.
Asylum seekers unlawfully detained on Chagos Islands
Dec 17, 2024 · Asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands controversially retained by the UK after Mauritius became independent in the 1960s, a judge has ruled. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court yesterday found that dozens of Sri Lankan Tamils w
Solicitors alarmed over Scottish government’s legal regulation plans
Mar 11, 2024 · The Law Society of Scotland’s annual members’ survey, conducted in December 2023 and January 2024, found more than four out of five members were concerned about proposed new ministerial powers in the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill.. The Scottish government has indicated it will be bringing forward amendments to the bill, in response to the widespread outcry from solicitors ...
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Jennifer Young: Scottish budget 2025-26 – business impact and …
Dec 6, 2024 · “This budget invests in public services, lifts children out of poverty, acts in the face of the climate emergency, and supports jobs and economic growth.” That’s according to the finance secretary, Shona Robison, in the Scottish government’s 2025/26 budget statement, wri
Solicitors concerned at ruling on corroboration
Nov 1, 2024 · This week's de recenti judgment marks a significant change to the longstanding rules around corroboration in criminal cases that will likely have far-reaching consequences, the Law Society of Scotland has said. A bench of nine judges made the ruling on 30 October 2024 on an appeal from Lord Advocate
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Dec 17, 2024 · Convictions rose by 15 per cent in 2022-23 to 68,067, new figures from Scotland’s chief statistician show. The figures demonstrate the continued recovery of the justice system following the impact of the pandemic. 2022-23 marked a return to more normal court capacities following the court clos