The Justice Diaries

Independent Law journalists report on legal news for consumers, litigants & Scotland's legal community including features on justice, access to justice, law reform, the judiciary, politics & in-depth investigations, analysis and commentaries on legal related issues.

Monday, October 06, 2025

JUDICIAL REGISTER: Eleven years ago - Holyrood debated & supported a motion calling for Scottish judges to register all their interests. In 2021 - after a near DECADE of opposition, delay & a campaign of hostility, threats to shut journalists out of our courts & hostile briefings from Scotland’s legal establishment - the Scottish Government committed to create a Judicial Interests Register. In October 2025, this judicial register is yet to be created.

Scottish Parliament debate on register of judicial interests. THIS WEEK marks ELEVEN YEARS on from a Scottish Parliament debate held on T...

Thursday, May 23, 2024

POST OFFICE JUDICIARY: Why has the Post Office Horizon Inquiry yet to hear from the judges who convicted & sentenced over 900 postmasters and sent 236 to prison - on faulty evidence from the Post Office Horizon IT system

Judges & Prosecutors at centre of Post Office IT scandal. AMID the almost daily headlines of dishonest, manipulated practices and flaw...

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