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1 Sep 2008, 7:07 am
Apparently, the Roslin Institute in Scotland is pissed off at the Koreans for cloning their patented cloning technology. [read post]
31 Aug 2008, 12:11 pm
Legal experts believe that a review published by the Crown Office last month into the failed prosecution of the "World's End murders" will make it more difficult to take action on historic unsolved cases.Now though, speculation is mounting that the prosecution of a man accused of one of Scotland's longest-running murder cases will be dropped.McAdam's body was never found when she disappeared after hitching a lift with a friend in a lorry from Glasgow to Dumfries on… [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 2:55 pm
Atiyah argues in The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract that the union of Scotland and England at the opening of the 18th century created the largest free trade zone in the world. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 10:20 am
The Romans built it to protect Roman Britain from raids by the Picts, the tribes that inhabited what would become Scotland. [read post]
27 Aug 2008, 11:50 am
"This consultation takes forward Gowers Review recommendation 36, which recommended matching penalties for online and physical copyright infringement by increasing sanctions for online infringements," said the UK-IPO in a statement.The courts in Scotland and Northern Ireland operate differently from those in England and Wales, and there is no equivalent sentencing guideline system there, but the consultation suggests that those courts could still implement maximum fines (para 14… [read post]
27 Aug 2008, 11:43 am
"The incident occurred shortly after the new animal welfare legislation became law in Scotland," she said. [read post]
27 Aug 2008, 11:39 am
This year also saw Brodies, Scotland's fastest-growing law firm, see its turnover increase by 23% to £37m compared to last year. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 4:47 pm
Jail population hits record highScotland's prison population has risen by a third in 10 years, to reach more than 8,000 for the first time.The Scottish Prison Service said 8,013 people were in custody on Monday night, with 371 on home detention curfew.The country's prisons are designed to hold about 6,600 inmates and had a daily average of about 6,000 in 1998.Earlier this year the chief inspector of prisons warned that overcrowding in Scotland's jails was making the country… [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 4:08 pm
The Royal Bank of Scotland and one of its subsidiaries have launched an investigation into how a computer CPU that contained private customer information could have been sold on eBay to a third party. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 10:01 am
(credit for photo of celebration this day in 1920)... 1928 (80 years ago today), at about 8:50 at night, a tumbler filled with ice cream was placed on a table at the in the Wellmeadow Café in Glasgow, Scotland. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 8:31 pm
Private citizens and their attorneys have been able to bring actions in court seeking remedies for similar wrongs (Libya was sued for the hijacking and murders aboard Pan Am Flight 73 in 1986, and for the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland which killed all 270 people on board; Swiss banks were sued for corroborating with Nazis and laundering Nazi wealth taken from Jews who died in the Holocaust). [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 11:30 am
Charity organisation Down's Syndrome Scotland said it was hoped lessons would be learned from the case, as the proper procedures had not been followed. [read post]
23 Aug 2008, 11:23 am
However, the Sunday Herald can reveal that much of the coverage was being driven by the Glasgow Bar Association (GBA) - a body representing the legal profession in the west of Scotland - which had hired a PR firm, McGarvie Morrison Media (MMM), to attack a key plank of the criminal justice system. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 11:10 am
The Royal Bank of Scotland, it is reported by the Herald newspaper, has delayed production of key evidence in a case against the Bank claiming a needless loss of over £10m …The Herald reports :Tycoons angry at bank's delay in cash rowJULIA HORTON August 21 2008Two self-made millionaires were furious yesterday after Scotland's largest bank continued to delay producing crucial evidence which it claims proves it was… [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 11:01 am
The public interest immunity argument has been lodged by Lord Davidson - not the Crown Office in Scotland. [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 8:01 am
Assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, third most senior officer at Scotland Yard, is expected to issue employment tribunal proceedings that heap fresh pressure on Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner. [read post]
18 Aug 2008, 8:26 am
“Britain’s most senior Asian policeman was illegally bugged and spied on in a clandestine operation sanctioned by Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, according to leaked Scotland Yard documents. [read post]
18 Aug 2008, 8:22 am
Scotland does not have Magistrates' Courts; therefore the consultation considers introducing maximum levels of fines for Scottish summary courts that deal with equivalent cases in Scotland".The interesting bit of this paper, the IPKat says, is the bit that deals with the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and the mechanisms for depriving criminals of their ill-gotten gains. [read post]
17 Aug 2008, 6:43 pm
Argyll v Argyll, "the divorce that shocked Scotland", took place fifty years ago and involved the Duke of Argyll, who took four years to obtain a divorce from his "infamous nymphomaniac third wife and Duchess of Argyll". [read post]
17 Aug 2008, 9:20 am
Scotland on Sunday reports today that Scottish government officials will shortly begin a program to offer all school girls age 12 and 13 vaccination against cervical cancer caused by certain strains of HPV. [read post]
