The president of the United States, Donald Trump sued the Scottish Government over wind turbines in the North East of Scotland. He initially raised an action in an attempt to prevent the wind farm being built in 2012. There is no love lost between...
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand its ability to unify billions of people around the world in an instant has revolutionised the ways in which we connect and engage with each other. Take the 2017 Women’s March for...
On 29th September 2019 a ceremony was held within the grounds of Quarriers Village, Bridge of Weir, to mark the reinstatement of headstones on the graves of children who died while resident in the Quarriers home. These headstones had been removed...
A legal case is heard, in the country it is brought forward in. Public law governs the relationship between individual citizens and the state bringing a case forward for the countries of the UK, all of which have their own court systems. Once...
Thomas Cook, the world’s oldest travel company, has ceased trading, leaving 150,000 passengers stranded. Holidaymakers will be rescued at great government expense, but what about the 9000 employees now stranded without a job. Who will rescue...
The management of medical records is being examined for the Infected Blood Inquiry. Once upon a time, medical consultations were written out by hand, in spidery handwriting, difficult to interpret and subject to deterioration over time leaving the...
The 10 September 2019 marked ‘World Suicide Prevention Day’. Public attitudes towards mental health has significantly improved; it is heartening to hear so many friends and colleagues speak more openly about their own mental health experiences....
We have entered an era of radical reform. People are waking up to the climate emergency which we now face and the extreme changes that need to be made to safe proof our future. On the contrary, it is often viewed as a luxury to attempt to tackle...