The Scottish Civil Justice Council (SCJC) is gathering views to shape the development of efficient and effective court procedures on group proceedings. The Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) Scotland Act 2018 allowed rules of court to be introduced to provide for group proceedings in
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There are more than 10,000 arrest warrants outstanding across Scotland, new figures show. Data published by Police Scotland reveal that as of 3 September 2025, there were 10,064 outstanding arrest warrants, including seven for murder, five for attempted murder and 40 for rape.
The Scottish Sentencing Council has made "significant progress" towards the finalisation of sentencing guidelines on rape offences, according to its annual report. The council recently came in for severe criticism, being described as a "monument to inertia" and "functionally irrelevant".
Apple has lost a first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit in the UK in a case concerning the "excessive and unfair" charges imposed on app developers. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) yesterday handed down judgment in Dr Rachael Kent v Apple Inc. and Apple Distribution International Ltd [2025] CA
The sadistic murders of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sadly too familiar: following on from the criminal trial in 1966 there has been an endless stream of literature. The Lost Boy is hardly a new book: originally published in 2007, it was republished in 2008; a second edition appeared in 2013; and
A man detained after trailing US troops with a speaker playing Darth Vader's iconic theme tune has filed a lawsuit over his treatment. Washington DC man Sam O'Hara staged the creative process after President Trump controversially deployed the National Guard to the city.
A former police constable has been awarded £210,000 in damages after a personal injury sheriff ruled that Authorised Firearms Officers ought to have been deployed to an incident in Inverness in which he suffered injuries from an individual who had run away from the police earlier in the day. M
A judge has acquitted 'Soldier F', the former British soldier accused of murder and attempted murder in connection with the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. Soldier F was prosecuted for the murder of James Wray and William McKinney and for the attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon,
Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. ‘Cruellest violation’: Saudi Arabia executes second child offender in two months
A teenage boy whose sex was mistakenly recorded on his birth certificate as female has been told he can only join girls' sports teams at his US school. The Laker family in Mesa, Arizona told ABC15 that their 14-year-old son was misidentified as female on his birth certificate as a result of a "cleri
A new report from the Scottish Land Commission shows how lessons from around the world could help Scotland modernise the way it values land and property. The research, carried out by WPI Economics, forms part of the commission’s ongoing work with the Scottish government to explore how tax can
Three people were wrongly accused of downloading child abuse images after a BT engineer’s wiring error caused police to trace illegal activity to the wrong address, a tribunal has heard. The mix-up, which took place in 2016, led to two men and a woman having their homes searched and electronic
The Faculty of Advocates’ Free Legal Services Unit (FLSU) will again host events during Pro Bono Week dedicated to advancing access to justice and strengthening pro bono legal services across Scotland. Pro Bono Week takes place across the UK from 3 to 7 November this year, with an overall them
The grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, are calling on ministers to grant her a posthumous pardon, arguing that she was a victim of domestic abuse. Ellis was executed in 1955 for the murder of her former partner, racing driver David Blakely, whom she had met two years
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) is consulting on a draft regulatory statement to guide its work as it implements the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025. The statement responds to the regulatory objectives, set out in chapter 1 of the Act and intended to guide the approa
