Contempt of court action will be taken later this year against a Sunday newspaper over a story it ran shortly before the Angelika Kluk murder trial.
Associated Newspapers - publishers of the Mail on Sunday - are alleged to have potentially prejudiced the trial in its front page story of 4 February. Editor Christopher Williams and Allan Caldwell, the freelance reporter who wrote the story, also face charges.
They deny any wrong doing. No date has been fixed for the contempt hearing.
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The contempt issue is to be considered by a three-judge court over four days later this year and is expected to be regarded as a test case for the media and its reporting of legal proceedings.
If I were in charge of Associated Newspapers, I'd make sure to get a good lawyer. This is not London. Scottish judges may not take kindly to the Scottish judicial system being treated - allegedly - with contempt.
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