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Edinburgh Law School’s Global Justice Academy (GJA) is now a part of the Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN). OCEAN unites universities and research institutions from the Council of Europe’s 46 members states, all focused on the shared goal of human rights, democracy, and th

Evidence produced at the first trial of Lucy Letby indicating which staff had been in the baby unit she worked in was incorrect, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has admitted. The nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six at the Countess of Chester hospital

PwC has been fined £15 million by the the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report suspicions of fraud at now-defunct London Capital & Finance (LCF).

Prisoner transfer firm GEOAmey was responsible for inmates arriving to court late more than 14,000 times in the six months to last September, new figures show. As a result, there were 1,516 delays to court proceedings due to late arrivals or failures to bring prisoners to courtrooms. In addition, th

A pensioner’s petition challenging decisions of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to make deductions from his pension credit for loans he received during 2006 and 2007 has been refused by the Outer House of the Court of Session. It was contended by petitioner Alan Houston that state

The number of asylum seekers who have died in Home Office care has more than doubled in the past year, The Guardian reports. Though some deaths occurred due to illness or old age, others were suicides. Charities worry that the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK has adversely affected their health

A joint investigation by BBC Scotland’s Disclosure and Radio 4’s File on 4 programmes will reveal allegations that workers from around the world may have been trafficked to work for a trawler fishing business based on Scotland’s south coast. Disclosure: Slavery at Sea and File on 4

New initiatives to increase access to residential rehabilitation across Scotland which will be able to support more than 100 residential rehab placements have been introduced. Local Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) that are experiencing high demand will be able to access extra funding from the n

The Scottish Land Court has ruled that a 70-year-old man was the sole tenant of a farm in Stirling following the death of his mother after determining that the tenancy was not held by a partnership comprising both of them. Charles McAllister raised the action against his brothers Walter and George M

A learner driver who caused the death of three teenage passengers by dangerous driving has been sentenced to more than four years' imprisonment. Jake Loy, then 17, was the holder of a provisional driving licence and was not being supervised when he lost control of the black Honda Civic on March 16,

The recent case of Paul Frame v Abellio Scotrail [2024] Limited involved many complex issues including foreseeable risk of injury, breach of duty of care, and causation, all of which require to be established for a party to succeed with an action for damages for psychological injury, writes Val Pitt

An independent human rights expert has called on the UK government to review the sentences of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) prisoners, stressing the need for the remaining IPP prisoners to be resentenced without delay, and for the indeterminate sentence system to be brought to an end. &ld

A fugitive accused of murder has been found – working as a police officer. Antonio Riano was wanted for the shooting of Benjamin Becarra, 25, in the US state of Ohio, in 2004.