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Singers who glorify "mafia culture" face up to three years' imprisonment under a law proposed by junior members of Italy's hard-right government. Lega, a far-right party with long-standing roots in the north of Italy, has taken aim at the neomelodica genre of music associated with the southern

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A couple who claimed they were wrongfully detained by Nottinghamshire Police in 2019 after they acted on allegations of child abuse and poisoning from their eldest child, from which no prosecution resulted, have lost the majority of their appeal against a County Court decision to dismiss a claim for

Public sector in-house solicitor Anne Stewart has been elected as convener of the Law Society of Scotland’s In-house Lawyers Committee (ILC). Ms Stewart, head of legal and corporate governance at the Scottish Social Services Council has worked in-house for more than 20 years and has been a mem

Views are being sought on fatal accident inquiries ahead of a review of the system. A call for evidence by the 2025 Fatal Accident Inquiry Review aims to gather views on the efficiency, effectiveness and trauma-informed nature of investigations into deaths in custody and the specific barriers that f

Young people who engage in rioting and large-scale public disorder offences have been urged to consider the impact a criminal record will have on their lives. The warning comes from a senior Crown Office prosecutor after a 17-year-old was sentenced to 18 months' detention for firework-related disord

Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has been ordered to recuse himself from the court’s investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela due to a conflict of interest arising from a family connection. The ICC’s appeals judges rule

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has written to Police Scotland and the Crown Office warning of potential human rights violations in the policing of peaceful protestors. The letter reminds the public bodies of their duty to exercise their functions proportionately in the wake of the proscription

The procurator fiscal has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to begin the court process for a joint fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of Ruaridh Stevenson and Kayden Walker. Twelve-year-old Kayden, from Bridgeton, Glasgow, drowned after becoming trapped on the upstream side of a weir

A transgender pool player has lost a legal challenge against a governing body’s decision to exclude individuals not born biologically female from its women’s competitions. The English Blackball Pool Federation (EBPF) introduced the ban in August 2023, prompting professional player Harrie

CMS has announced global revenues for the financial year January-December 2024 of €2.073bn – representing a year-on-year growth rate of 5.9 per cent. Meanwhile, UK LLP revenue for financial year 2024/25 increased to GBP 779.1m, marking six per cent year-on-year growth.

As a summer of horrors unfolds in Gaza, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (Mark Stephens CBE, IBAHRI co-chair, Hina Jilani, IBAHRI co-chair and Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, IBAHRI director) asks the international community: if not now, when will it be time to act? Death, s

A man accused of arson has said he set his apartment building on fire while trying to cremate his pet cat. Five people were displaced after the fire allegedly caused by 53-year-old Vince Hildestad, who went missing for a week afterwards.

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has dismissed an appeal by six insurers against a decision that they required to pay out on the war risks policy of a vessel detained by the Indonesian navy under border security laws in 2019 after concluding that no exclusion in the policy had been engaged b