There is an urgent need for much clearer and comprehensive standards and their application on the use of solitary confinement ...

Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband and 50 other men have been convicted of rape and other offences in the French mass trial which ...

Over the course of 2024, Scottish Legal News published more than 240 articles in our popular And Finally section – sharing ...

Burges Salmon, which has an office in Edinburgh, has completed around 80 corporate and M&A transactions since January 2024, ...

Convictions rose by 15 per cent in 2022-23 to 68,067, new figures from Scotland’s chief statistician show. The figures ...

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. US violating law to fund Israel despite alleged human rights abuses ...

Word reaches your scrivener that a well regarded seasoned journalist by the name of Claire Atkinson is engaged in writing an ...

The study of crime in a specific area is hardly a new idea: famously, Jack House wrote The Square Mile of Murder, which has ...

A University of Dundee study will give volunteer jurors from across Scotland the opportunity to deliver their verdict on the ...

A man who promoted a banned far-right Neo-Nazi group online has been given an extended 15-year prison sentence for terrorism, firearms, public order and drugs offences.  Alan Edward, 55, was jailed fo ...

The PSNI and the Metropolitan Police unlawfully spied on investigative journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, the ...

Asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands controversially retained by the UK ...