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Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been dismissed by the morality police for failing to grow beards. The Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue fired the beardless men – who are among 13,000 people who have been detained for immoral acts

‘Necrogamy’ might sound deeply unpleasant, but in fact refers to a lawful practice in France — one of the only jurisdictions in the world to allow, in certain circumstances, posthumous marriage between a living person and their deceased partner. And Mrs, a bittersweet dark comedy

A former Police Scotland officer who subjected three former partners to a campaign of controlling, violent and sexual abuse has been jailed. Christopher Ferguson was found guilty of nine charges on June 13 following a trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court.

Dentons' UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) region has retained 78 per cent of trainees and solicitor apprentices who applied for newly qualified roles in the UK in 2024, with a quarter of its new lawyers taking up roles in Scotland. Out of the 34 trainees and two apprentices who applied in the UK,

Serious issues with the Scottish Parliament’s Assisted Dying Bill must be addressed to avoid uncertainly and negative outcomes, according to the Law Society of Scotland. The Law Society said it does not have a moral or ethical position on the stated objectives of the Assisted Dying for Termina

The Post Office has paid lawyers a quarter of a billion pounds in legal fees over the Horizon scandal, close to the amount given to victims. The state body paid out £256.9 million to 15 law firms and two barristers’ chambers between September 2014 and March 2024, according a freedom of i

Foreign cybercriminals could be extradited as part of a crackdown on the rise in young people being targeted for sextortion – the practice of blackmailing them over sexual images. Gangs, often based in west Africa, trick teenagers into sending intimate pictures of themselves to fraudsters who

Increasing deadly attacks against Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine State bear a "terrifying resemblance" to the atrocities of August 2017, Amnesty International said ahead of the seventh anniversary of the crisis. “As the seven-year anniversary of the Rohingya crisis nears, the horri

A man who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a judge's daughter in Northern Ireland appealed directly to Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1969, a new file reveals. Iain Hay Gordon, from Glasgow, was found “guilty but insane” over the murder of Patricia Curran in 1952.

Turcan Connell partner Grierson Dunlop has been awarded associateship of the Royal Agricultural Societies by the Council for Awards of Royal Agricultural Societies, recognising his contribution to agricultural and land-based industries. The council acts on behalf of the UK’s four national Roya

The Sheriff Appeal Court has passed a Bill of Suspension by ruling that a convicted person allegedly in breach of a Restriction of Liberty Order imposed by the SAC could not have that order revoked by a lower court and replaced with a sentence of imprisonment. Complainer Thomas Kitson had been made

The Law Society of Scotland is launching a new award to celebrate legal pioneers within the sector as part of its 75th anniversary commemorations. Nominations for the Legal Pioneer Award are open to both solicitors and non-solicitors - past or present - who have made a significant contribution to Sc

A man whose head was bleeding after a hair transplant was arrested after refusing to leave a plane. Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier and his female companion were removed from the aircraft at Miami airport, local media reports.