Individuals could spend more time under community supervision as part of their prison sentence, a consultation has proposed. Views are being sought on changing the point of release under licence conditions for people serving a custodial sentence of four years or more, which would "provide a more man
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Amnesty International has documented new shipments of aviation fuel to Myanmar despite global calls to deprive the country’s military of the resources it needs to carry out unlawful air strikes. In January 2024, Amnesty International exposed the Myanmar military’s new evasive tactics for
Legal expert Professor Alison Britton passed away last Tuesday at the age of 63 following a short illness. As professor of healthcare and medical law at Glasgow Caledonian University, she carried out consultancy work for a range of organisations including the World Health Organization, the British M
A man who set fire to two properties while conspiring to set others ablaze has been jailed for three years after his encrypted phone messages revealed his crimes. Lewis Connor, 27, used five jerry cans filled with petrol to substantially damage a house in Dennyloanhead, near Falkirk, which was under
A team established to consider how the recommendations in the Cass Review might apply to NHS services in Scotland has submitted its findings to the Scottish Parliament, including a recommendation that the use of puberty-suppressing hormones be paused. A senior clinical team, commissioned by the chie
A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. 'Agony and pain': US health professionals reflect on the Gaza war
A former local authority employee who embezzled more than £1 million from Aberdeen City Council over a 17-year period has been imprisoned for four years. Michael Paterson, 59, set up an internal pathway which allowed him to fraudulently issue council tax refunds into his own bank account.
An IP judge has granted a request by a chemicals company that entered into a joint project with the University of Glasgow ordering the university to produce documents relating to activity by a linked company that it averred was using technology derived from patents previously assigned to it. Deepmat
A drugs courier who was paid £500 a trip to transport boxes of cannabis from England to Dundee has been jailed for 18 months. Lukas Losinski, 35, was caught with 974g of cannabis with a potential street value of £78,110 when police searched his home.
On 18 September 1961, a plane transporting Dag Hammarskjöld, then the secretary-general of the United Nations, flew across the Congo on a long route to avoid a vast area that had seceded from the main part of the country. The fatal flight ended at Ndola in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasala
A man who carried out a campaign of violent and sexual offending lasting more than two decades has been jailed. Brian McGlashan, from Perth, was found guilty of eight charges following a trial at the High Court in Dundee on June 5.
Two sheriffs have been appointed to the Sheriff Appeal Court from the reserve list. Sheriffs David Young KC and Joan Kerr have been appointed as appeal sheriffs by the Lord President, Lord Carloway.
Proposals to ensure that every school pupil in local authority or grant-aided schools can attend a course of residential outdoor education are to be scrutinised by the Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee. If passed, the Schools (Residential Outdoor Education) (
A farmer in Dingwall who contended that a public right of vehicular access existed over a road created by Highland Council on land compulsorily purchased from his parents has won an appeal before the Inner House of the Court of Session against a decision that no vehicular rights existed. Alasdair Ma
The missing postal ballot issue could go to court as losing candidates or disenfranchised voters challenge the results. Candidates and voters have 21 days following the results to apply to the Election Petitions Office in order to challenge the outcome.
