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Supreme Court allows restaurant’s appeal against £15,000 illegal working penalty notice
12+ hour, 37+ min ago (634+ words) Scottish Legal News Supreme Court allows restaurant’s appeal against £15,000 illegal working penalty notice A South Asian restaurant in Middlesborough has won an appeal to the UK Supreme Court against a £15,000 illegal working civil penalty notice, after the court found the…...
Matheson Lawson appoints Jan Telfer
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (230+ words) Maureen Matheson and Jan Telfer Matheson Lawson Solicitors has announced the appointment of Jan Telfer to its growing new business team. Ms Telfer joins the Glasgow-based firm with more than a decade of experience in the Scottish property sector, bringing…...
Police Scotland a cautionary tale for merging of forces south of the border
6+ mon, 4+ day ago (240+ words) The proposed restructure of England and Wales’ police forces is needed to deal with the reality of 21st century crime but the mistakes that beset the creation of Police Scotland must be avoided, according to a University of Dundee expert in…...
Inner House refuses appeal against decision that university could charge South African with UK citizenship higher tuition fees
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (861+ words) Scottish Legal News Inner House refuses appeal against decision that university could charge South African with UK citizenship higher tuition fees The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused an appeal against a decision that a university was…...
Police Scotland’s biometric practices come in for criticism
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (656+ words) A new report has revealed Police Scotland is failing to take the fingerprints of thousands of people it arrests each year. The Scottish biometrics commissioner has today published the findings of a joint review carried out to provide assurance that…...
UK to review refugee status every 30 months
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (502+ words) Pictured: The UK's home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, visiting Denmark last week. (Credit: Niklas Hallen - Home Office / Flickr, CC BY 4.0) The UK will no longer grant refugee status on a permanent basis, instead reviewing cases every 30 months to identify refugees who…...
Lib Dems say Scottish government ‘must reverse’ crime trends
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (156+ words) The Scottish government “must reverse” worrying trends in key categories of crime including sexual crimes, indecent images of children and shoplifting, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. Figures from Police Scotland show that in the year ending December 2025: Justice spokesperson…...
Amnesty: Reform ‘poisoning the public debate’ and scapegoating immigrants
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (391+ words) Amnesty International has warned that proposals to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, expand mass deportations and weaken legal safeguards risk undermining democratic accountability and fuelling division, following a speech by Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson outlining plans to…...
Report: How Brexit has shaped UK immigration policy
6+ mon, 11+ hour ago (378+ words) scottishlegal.com Report: How Brexit has shaped UK immigration policy A new report from The Constitution Society and the Federal Trust tackles the role immigration policy played in causing Brexit, and that Brexit has since played in driving UK immigration…...