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A senior judge in Pakistan has been removed from office after it emerged he obtained his law degree through fraud. Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri served on Islamabad High Court for five years before the invalidity of his undergraduate degree at the University of Karachi came to light.
A new law on the creation of deepfake intimate images is among a package of new measures being considered as part of a consultation.
The Scottish Land Commission has today published a policy roadmap as the culmination of its ScotLand Futures initiative, setting out how Scotland can "go further" in reforming the ownership and use of land. The roadmap draws on engagement through the ScotLand Futures initiative, with more than 1,200
The application of the UK’s family migration rules to UK-EU couples after Brexit is causing family separation and trauma, a new report warns. Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter have uncovered the hardship and hurdles facing families where one partner is from Europe followi
People affected by drug use across Scotland will continue to receive support thanks to funding for 28 projects delivering frontline services. This is the final funding from the Scottish government's five-year National Drug Mission Funds, administered by the Corra Foundation. It aims to provide grass
An appeal by a party to a share purchase agreement who stopped making payments under the agreement after forming a view that he had been fraudulently induced into entering the SPA against a sheriff’s decision that he had pled no relevant defence to an action for payment has been refused by the
There is to be a statutory public inquiry examining Scotland’s response to group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) chaired by Professor Alexis Jay. In a statement to Holyrood, Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth confirmed the Scottish government’s intention to establish a ta
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million for children's privacy failures. It said the online platform had failed to apply a robust age assurance mechanism to prevent under-13s from creating accounts.
Ukrainian refugees abroad have been invited to submit compensation claims to a Council of Europe initiative aimed at holding Russia accountable for the costs of its invasion for the past four years. The Register of Damage for Ukraine yesterday opened a new category of claims, A1.2, which covers "inv
The Scottish government "must reverse" worrying trends in key categories of crime including sexual crimes, indecent images of children and shoplifting, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. Figures from Police Scotland show that in the year ending December 2025:
Artificial intelligence will be embedded across the court system as part of a sweeping programme of reform aimed at delivering “faster and fairer justice for victims”, Justice Secretary David Lammy has said. Speaking at the Microsoft AI Tour at the Excel Centre in London, Mr Lammy set ou
Amnesty International has warned that proposals to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, expand mass deportations and weaken legal safeguards risk undermining democratic accountability and fuelling division, following a speech by Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson outlining plans t
New York police say they are investigating "criminals" who pelted officers with snowballs after they turned up to a mass snowball fight. Videos circulating on social media show a rain of snowballs coming down on officers attending the event, which was organised online in the wake of a major blizzard
The Sheriff Appeal Court has quashed an order for the destruction of an XL Bully dog after finding that there was insufficient information to establish that the dog presented a risk to the public or that his owner, who received the dog from her son in unknown circumstances, was not a fit and proper
