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Calls have been made to refer Burmese military figures involved in human rights abuses to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Findings of the UN independent fact-finding mission into human rights abuses in Burma were welcomed by the Burma Human Rights Network, which called on the UK an

The Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG) has responded to plans to allow first-year criminal defence trainees to appear in court because of dwindling practitioner numbers. Recent media reporting indicates that plans are afoot to amend the current rules governing when trainee solicitors are able to a

Rebecca Ablett serves up a two-course dish of intellectual property delights from Luxembourg. The IP world has been cooking up quite a storm this summer with two particularly interesting cases featuring on last month’s menu for the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”

A group of brave lawyers from Edinburgh have taken on a daring stunt, leaping from a 150ft platform to zip-line across the River Clyde in support of specialist charity Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland (SBH Scotland).

Prisoners who smoke are to be offered vaping kits for free ahead of a ban on tobacco in jails this autumn. The proposal is part of a plan to help inmates give up smoking and will cost about £200,000.

A man convicted of smuggling around £130,000 worth of gold out of the Royal Canadian Mint in his rectum has been granted a reduced fine on appeal. Leston Lawrence, 35, was fined around £147,500 last February by Justice Doody after being convicted of stealing the nugget-sized pieces of go

An appeal court has ruled that the Fourth Amendment protects the energy consumption data collected by smart meters. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that individuals have a reasonable expectation that this data should remain private, and that the government's access of it cons

Thieves who stole 42 powerful rifles from a police armoury covered their tracks for around a year by replacing them with wooden and plastic replicas. As a result, the police officer in charge of the armoury in Capiatá, Paraguay has now himself been replaced, officials confirmed.

Proposals to establish a biometrics commissioner to provide independent oversight of biometric data used by the police and others in Scotland and an associated statutory code of practice are out for consultation. Scotland is the only nation in the UK missing an independent body to oversee biometric

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held by a majority that the Hungarian Supreme Court did not breach a man's right to a free trial by refusing to refer a question to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a preliminary ruling. However, the ECtHR found that applicant G&aac

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A report has found that police failed to make diligent enquiries to trace a 72-year-old man who had made a 999 call for an ambulance before he was found dead in his home, at supported accommodation in Inverness, the following day. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) instructed the

Scotland's incidence of financial crime has risen by nearly one-third quarter-on-quarter, while violent crime has fallen, The Herald reports. According to Police Scotland's management information report, there were 1,955 incidents of fraud in the first quarter of 2017-18.