Femicide is to become a standalone criminal offence in Italy under legislation now backed by the country's parliament. The lower chamber of the Italian parliament gave unanimous backing to the government bill on Tuesday, coinciding with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against W
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The High Court of Justiciary has allowed a Crown appeal against an eight-month Restriction of Liberty Order imposed on an Aberdeen woman who entered a complainer’s home without consent on two occasions, the latter of these as part of an attempted robbery, and ordered that she instead be impris
New figures show that police recorded 48,564 shoplifting offences, up from 42,271 the previous year. David Lonsdale, Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, said more had to be done to tackle the problem.
The cost of public inquiries in Scotland has exceeded £250 million, with the bill rising by almost £30m in just nine months. Figures show that between 2007 and September 2025, the total bill for the cost of inquiries was £258.8m.
Sexual crimes were seven per cent higher compared to the year ending September 2024 (increasing from 14,651 to 15,704 crimes), and 12 per cent higher compared to the year ending September 2021 (increasing from 14,052 to 15,704 crimes), new figures from Scotland’s chief statistician show. In th
Legislation to correct an error in law for owners of unoccupied properties’ liability to pay non-domestic rates has been published. The Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Act 2020 devolved to councils the power to provide discounts to owners of unoccupied properties from 1 April 2023.
The first discretionary fatal accident inquiry (FAI) in relation to the procurator fiscal’s ongoing investigation into Covid-related deaths has commenced with the lodging of a first notice into the death of Donald Singer. Mr Singer, 66, a crane operator working offshore on the Ninian Sou
Justice Secretary David Lammy is considering major curbs on the ancient right to be tried by a jury, with proposals to guarantee it only for defendants facing charges such as rape, murder, manslaughter or other offences meeting a public-interest threshold. A leaked internal briefing prepared by the
An appeal by a practising Catholic in England against the dismissal of his Sheriff Court action against the Natwest Group in connection to its display of Pride material in his local bank branch, for which he claimed £35,000 in mental health damages, has been refused after a Sheriff Principal f
World-leading security experts have been forced to re-run an election after being locked out of their own ultra-secure system. The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) announced on Friday that it could not access the results of its annual committee elections.
A lord ordinary has retrospectively certified six expert witnesses instructed by two homebuyers to report on alleged defects in a property they purchased from a developer in their second action arising from the purchase of the property, having held that it would be uneconomical to prevent them from
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, is under criminal investigation for Holocaust denial. Public prosecutors in Paris launched an investigation after Grok appeared to verify false claims made on X by a French neo-Nazi previously convicted of Holocaust denial offences.
Concentrated ownership, absentee landlords and a lack of transparency in how land is managed are some of the concerns the public has over land in Scotland according to a new report, published by the Scottish Land Commission. Developed through the ScotLand Futures initiative, the report reflect
