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Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC Police forces in England and Wales have been accused of breaching human rights standards by continuing to fail to meet the needs of menstruating women detained in police custody.

The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) is investigating allegations of misconduct and gross misconduct about a senior officer in Police Scotland. A number of anonymous allegations, some of which were criminal, about police officers including the senior officer, were sent to the c

A programme to deliver science training to prisoners will be rolled out across Scotland after it received £150,000 in funding. Cell Block Science, led by researchers at the University of St Andrews is a public engagement research partnership to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and mat

A Scottish woman who was struck by a motorcyclist after an afternoon of drinking in a pub while on holiday in Spain will have any damages awarded to her reduced after she was found to have “materially contributed” to the accident. A sheriff in the All-Scotland Sheriff Personal Injury Court ruled

David Hoey

The death has been announced of Muir Russell QC, who served as a sheriff at Aberdeen for 20 years. He was 92. Albert Muir Galloway Russell, son of a judge, Lord Russell, was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1951, after serving as a lieutenant in the Scots Guards. He took silk in 1965 and was

Jeremy Wright QC The UK government cannot rely on a blanket ban, on grounds of national security, to deny requests for information about drone strikes against British jihadis, a tribunal has ruled.

A report has revealed that more than 500,000 acres of land in Scotland is now in community ownership. But the figures also show that the vast majority of this land is in just two local authority areas: Highland and Na h-Eileanan Siar.

Nick Scott

Rod McKenzie The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has today announced the appointment of a new team of in-house and external legal advisers.

Fraser Oliver Digby Brown has reported profits of £8.3 million in the year to March 2017, down on the previous year's figure of £8.6m.

Gavin McEwan

Professor Nick Hardwick The Parole Board for England and Wales is facing calls to explain how it decided to allowed serial rapist John Worboys to leave prison.

The Iranian authorities must ensure the right to peaceful protest, investigate reports that security forces have unlawfully used firearms against unarmed protesters, and protect hundreds of detainees from torture, Amnesty International said this week amid concerns that the crackdown against demonstr

A lawyer has threatened WhatsApp with a lawsuit over its middle-finger emoji, which he claims breaches the law in Ireland and in India. Gurmeet Singh, based in Delhi, has written to the operators of the popular messaging app to demand that the "lewd" emoji is removed within 15 days, threatening a la