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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has allowed an appeal against the dismissal of a claim for sexual harassment by an Employment Tribunal in Cardiff after ruling that it erred in law in considering whether a person found to have sexually harassed the claimant was acting in the course of his employment.
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The Femicide Census has identified 122 women who were killed by men in the UK in 2022. Sixty-two women were killed by a current or former partner. More women were killed by their son than by a stranger. The vast majority of women were killed in their own home. Evidence of gratuitous violence was fou
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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. The Trump administration is reversing long-established US human rights discourse
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New crime statistics showing a five per cent increase in sexual crimes "paint a deeply troubling picture" about violence against women and girls in Scotland, the the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said. Figures from Police Scotland show that in the year ending June 2025:
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There was a five per cent rise in sexual crimes compared to last year, new figures from Scotland's chief statistician show. In the year ending June 2025 the police in Scotland recorded 303,343 crimes. This was one per cent higher than the 300,078 crimes recorded in the year ending June 2024, and one
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Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has dramatically increased the number of appeals against sentences judged to be too soft. Figures obtained by The Sunday Times show a 500 per cent rise over the past decade in appeals brought by the lord advocate on the grounds that sentences were unduly lenient.
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Wendy McLaughlin, a senior workplace coordinator at Shoosmiths in Glasgow, has been practising hard for a special Strictly Come Dancing-style dance-off to be held in Glasgow in aid of the Beatson Cancer Charity on 11 October. Ms McLaughlin, who joined Shoosmiths in 2021, is one of a six-strong team
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The procurator fiscal has lodged first notices with the Sheriff Court to commence the court process for fatal accident inquiries (FAIs) into the deaths of two prisoners who died from Covid. Both Edward Simpson, 55, and John Ian Reid, 63, died in hospital after contracting the virus while in legal cu
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A Scottish charity specialising in post-adoption support and advice has been fined £18,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office after it destroyed approximately 4,800 personal records – up to 10 percent of which may be irreplaceable – because it was running out of space in its
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Helsinki has become the first European capital city to record zero road traffic deaths for an entire year. The Finnish capital is comparable in population size to Dublin, with around 1.5 million people living in or near it.
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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
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More than 40 prosecutors have been sacked in the Trump administration's purge of the US Justice Department, including the daughter of the former FBI director who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election. The sacking of federal prosecutors for political reasons is unprecedented in the U
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A lord ordinary has refused a judicial review application by the “limbs in the loch” killer based on a February 2024 decision of the Parole Board for Scotland to again refuse to release him on licence after finding that he still presented a risk to the public. William Beggs, who was conv
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Prosecutors and support staff involved in investigations into Donald Trump have been sacked in what has been widely described as a purge of the US Department of Justice. Axios broke the news on Saturday that 20 people had been sacked because of their previous work on cases relating to the storming o
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Jacqueline Fordyce and Gillian Mawdsley have been reappointed to the board of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) for a further four years. The board is responsible for the overall strategic direction and performance of the SCCRC, and is ultimately responsible for determining wheth
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