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The first new textbook on Scottish criminal justice in a decade has been published. Criminal Justice in Scotland, by Jamie Buchan, Sarah Anderson and Katrina Morrison, encompasses many significant developments across Scottish criminal justice and beyond. It combines careful attention to procedural a

Glasgow University rector Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawfully banned from speaking at a pro-Palestinian conference in Germany, a court in Berlin has ruled. A chamber of three judges in Berlin's administrative court this week ruled that the ban on political activity imposed by Berlin's immigration o

Murderland, as a history of extreme crime in particular geographical areas of the United States of America, transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology. Many of the individual criminals discussed in the book are very well-known. It may seem odd, however, to read that in 1972 the city of El Pa

A group of people smugglers who hid migrants in lorries have been jailed. The organised crime group – consisting of Azize Benaniba, 41; Mahmoud Haidous, 53; Mohamed Bechkit, 36; Abed Karrouz, 40; Amor Ghabbari, 32; Mohamed Abdelhadi, 50; and Mohamed Bouriche, 43 – would arrange to meet m

In October of 1739 an Irish merchant vessel, the William, slipped out of Donaghadee harbour near Belfast and sailed into infamy. Its stated goal of collecting Norwegian timber shrouded the dark mission of its master William Davidson – to kidnap Scottish crofters and sell them into slavery in t

Journalists are set to begin attending and reporting from family court hearings in Northern Ireland this October under a planned pilot scheme. Greater transparency in the family courts was one of the issues to be examined by a judicial working group established by the lady chief justice in September

A bumbling group of drug dealers who allegedly plotted to deliberately get arrested in order to benefit from bail conditions have been foiled. Singaporean police believe that the group of five Chinese nationals deliberately got caught offering bribes to officials in order to prolong their stay in th

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. UN-backed team focusing on human rights in Palestinian areas announce resignations

Ayrshire-based Dales Solicitors has opened a new Stirling office.

The average price of a property in Scotland in May was £192,000, an increase of 6.4 per cent when compared to May 2024, according to Registers of Scotland's latest House Price Index. Compared to the previous month, house prices in Scotland were unchanged on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, whi

The Insolvency Service has announced plans to play a more prominent role in the fight against economic crime and be recognised as the UK’s leading authority in enforcing corporate and insolvency standards. Its new strategy commits the agency to broadening its remit, taking "robust" action agai

A farm worker convicted of a road traffic offence after driving onto a manually operated level crossing while it displayed warning lights and colliding with a train has lost an appeal by stated case against his conviction based on his contention that the locus of the offence had not been proved to b