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The Scottish Prison Service has been urged to stop routine body-searching of female inmates following an inspection of a new £85 million “therapeutic” jail. Chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, made the recommendation after an inspection of the female pri

Ireland's Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded a record €550,000 to a former Twitter employee who was sacked after failing to click a button in an email from Elon Musk shortly after he acquired the company. Gary Rooney, former source-to-pay director at Dublin-based Twitter Internati

Scottish charity RSABI is extending its thanks to the 135 or so competitors, and support team members, who are set to take part in this year’s Great Glen Challenge, sponsored by Gillespie Macandrew.

Scots lawyers have long made the case for overhauling the legal aid system but, with the Scottish government agreeing only a small number of fee uplifts since it commissioned a review of the sector close to a decade ago, many have come to believe that their pleas are destined to fall on deaf ears. W

A man suing Disney for the alleged wrongful death of his fiancée has been told suing breaches the terms of his Disney+ subscription. Disney's lawyers raised eyebrows internationally by telling a New York court that Jeffrey Piccolo had agreed to handle all disputes with the company through arb

Over 250,000 people have backed a European citizens' initiative that says video game publishers should be required to ensure that online games remain playable after official support is ended. The Stop Killing Games initiative follows criticism of French publisher Ubisoft, which recently shut down se

The Scottish Sentencing Council has published a new report examining how victims of domestic abuse view sentencing in Scotland. The research, conducted by Glasgow Caledonian University, provides insights into the experiences and perspectives of victims. Researchers interviewed 24 women across Scotla

An appeal against a lord ordinary’s decision to allow a proof and grant an interim suspension of a confirmation of two brothers as co-executors dative of their father’s estate has been allowed by the Inner House of the Court of Session, but only to the extent of recalling the decision to

Scottish house prices saw a 4.3 per cent year-on-year increase in June 2024, reaching an average of £192,000, and outpacing the UK average growth, according to Registers of Scotland. As compared with the previous month, house prices in Scotland were unchanged on a non-seasonally adjusted basis

A rapist who sexually abused six young girls and two women over the course of 43 years has been jailed. Michael Conway was found guilty of 14 charges on June 11 following a trial at the High Court in Livingston.

Criminal defence solicitor Anna MacKay has been promoted to senior associate director at Scullion LAW. She said: “I am delighted to accept this promotion, and I am grateful that my hard work has been recognised by the team and the firm. I look forward to taking on new challenges and helpi

An alleged rape victim whose case was wrongly abandoned by English prosecutors after lawyers for the defence claimed she had "sexsomnia" has received £35,000 in compensation. Jade McCrossen-Nethercott launched legal action against the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with support from the Centr

An American judge has been widely criticised after humiliating a teenage girl who fell asleep during a classroom visit to his court. Judge Kenneth King, of the 36th District Court in Detroit, ordered the 16-year-old girl to change into a jail uniform and sit handcuffed in the dock as punishment, 7 N

Public sector fraud in Scotland has risen by almost 50 per cent according to Audit Scotland. A data matching exercise, part of the UK-wide National Fraud Initiative (NFI), detected £21.5 million worth of fraud and payment errors across the Scottish public sector.