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Hundreds of swimmers have gone for a dip in the River Spree in defiance of a century-old ban. Berlin authorities banned swimming in the Spree in May 1925 out of concern for public health.

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Govan Law Centre (GLC) has joined with the Glasgow Times to call for greater protection for women using taxis to get home at night. GLC has asked Glasgow City Council to reconsider allowing a women-only taxi firm to be licensed as a woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a taxi driver spoke t

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Britain's first transgender judge has launched a crowdfunding campaign in support of her bid to bring the UK before the European Court of Human Rights. Dr Victoria McCloud resigned as a Master of the English High Court in 2024, saying she had concluded that it was no longer "possible in a dignified

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Hundreds of thousands of people living in new-build homes in Scotland are being excluded from jury service because outdated court IT systems do not recognise their addresses. Jurors are selected at random from a national address database, but senior court officials admit the system cannot process po

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Five international organisations concerned with protest rights and civil liberties have written to Attorney General Richard Hermer, urging him to delay making a decision on whether to prosecute the hundreds of peaceful protesters arrested for holding placards expressing support for Palestine Action,

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