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A court ruling this morning that the UK government is entitled to continue authorising arms supplies to Saudi Arabia is a potentially “deadly blow” to Yemeni civilians, Amnesty International said in response. The High Court in London dismissed a legal challenge from the NGO Campaign Against Arms

Dr Kath Murray A criminal law academic has been jointly awarded a prize for an article on stop and search in Scotland.

A sheriff in Dundee went on a tongue-in-cheek rant about Rangers Football Club during an assault trial, the Evening Telegraph reports. Sheriff George Way was presiding over the case of William Smith, 44, who had admitted an assault charge at his home in May.

A man made an unusual marriage proposal after getting down on one knee while handcuffed and under arrest. Brandon Thompson was arrested for six felony warrants on America's Independence Day, which was also his birthday.

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A Syrian man who had been granted refugee status in Bulgaria but claimed that to send him back there from the UK would breach his human rights has had his legal challenged dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session upheld a decision by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to certify the cl

Eilish Lindsay Eilish Lindsay discusses the perils of 'taps aff'.

Rosalind English 1 Crown Office Row have launched a new regular podcast, Law Pod UK, with presenter Rosalind English, to discuss developments across all aspects of civil and public law in the UK.

The heirs of a man who kept his wife's body in cold storage so he could fraudulently claim her welfare payments have repaid the US government the money. The US Attorney's Office has confirmed that Allan Dunn's heirs have sold his condo and paid $15,743 from the proceedings to the Social Security Adm

A sheriff has ruled that a family home that was built on a plot of land owned by one party to a marriage but which was not matrimonial property could be valued separately from the land for the purposes of calculating financial provision on divorce. The pursuer claimed that when the house was built o

David Hoey

A new inquiry looking at the performance of employee-owned businesses following a sustained period of growth in their number over the past five years has launched a call for evidence. At a time when there is a significant focus on UK productivity, corporate behaviour and Brexit, the Ownership Effect

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) confirmed this week that it has received a new application to review the conviction in the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi. Mr Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the murder of the 259 passengers and crew on board Pan American World Airways