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Glasgow University law students Grainne Duffy and Eilidh Collins had a "fantastic time" at the world finals of the Brown Mosten International Client Consultation Competition, held at the Law Society of Ireland in Dublin.

New laws that have come into effect today mean that British citizens taking up residence in foreign terror zones could be jailed for up to 10 years. The Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 creates a criminal offence of entering or remaining in a “designated area” overseas.

Research has been launched by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) into whether legal aid enables people who raise a discrimination complaint in Scotland to get justice. The equality body wants to hear from anyone who has experienced discrimination in Scotland since 1 January 2016.

An appeal hearing is scheduled for 1 May in the case of X (Appellant) v Kuoni Travel Ltd (Respondent), UKSC 2018/0102. The case turns on the question: is the holiday company, Kuoni, liable for sexual assault inflicted by one of its employees on a customer?

George Mealmaker, transported in 1798 to Australia for sedition, was a political giant and visionary who deserves to be recognised in Scotland today, writes Graham Ogilvy. The trial of George Mealmaker in 1798 was the last of the great sedition show trials held to suppress the democratic agitat

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Turkey: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers

A police officer is facing an internal investigation after turning up to a breathalyser training class while drunk. The officer volunteered to take part in a demonstration of the technology, which showed his blood alcohol level content was 80 mg per 100 millilitres.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a request to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan – a week after the US revoked the entry visa of ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, for looking into the selfsame issue. Announcing the decision, ICC judges cited Afghanistan's instabilit

Human beings should always know if they are directly interacting with another human or an artificial intelligence (AI), a report highlighting a series of "critical concerns" about future AI systems has warned. The report from the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI listed a number of

A fertility doctor illegally used his own sperm to father 49 children, DNA tests have revealed. Dr Jan Karbaat, whose children are known as"Karbaatkinderen", impregnated the women at a clinic near Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Tommy Sheridan has failed in an appeal to have his perjury conviction referred to the High Court of Justiciary to consider whether he suffered a “miscarriage of justice”. The Inner House of the Court of Session upheld a decision of the Lord Ordinary to dismiss th

The right to food should be enshrined in law in Scotland to protect people from rising food insecurity and the impacts of Brexit, according to a new report by the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC). The report, submitted to the Scottish government, also calls on public authorities to

Morisons' collapse came in the wake of a number of partner resignations, documents have shown. Administrators FRP Advisory's report states that the departures “would have resulted in a significant loss of both clients and turnover” at the firm, whose origins are in the 1860s.

Brent Haywood looks at a case in which a student anti-abortion group was denied affiliation and how it availed itself of the Equality Act. In the field of human rights and equalities law the cases that grab the headlines are those where a judgment is delivered after a hard-fought legal battle in cou

Campaigners have raised fears over a fresh wave of asylum seeker evictions after a legal bid to prevent failed asylum seekers being evicted without a court order was dismissed by the Court of Session. The case against the Home Office and its contractor Serco was launched in the name of two women in