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Views are being sought on fatal accident inquiries ahead of a review of the system. A call for evidence by the 2025 Fatal Accident Inquiry Review aims to gather views on the efficiency, effectiveness and trauma-informed nature of investigations into deaths in custody and the specific barriers that f

Public sector in-house solicitor Anne Stewart has been elected as convener of the Law Society of Scotland’s In-house Lawyers Committee (ILC). Ms Stewart, head of legal and corporate governance at the Scottish Social Services Council has worked in-house for more than 20 years and has been a mem

Young people who engage in rioting and large-scale public disorder offences have been urged to consider the impact a criminal record will have on their lives. The warning comes from a senior Crown Office prosecutor after a 17-year-old was sentenced to 18 months' detention for firework-related disord

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

The Scottish Human Rights Commission has written to Police Scotland and the Crown Office warning of potential human rights violations in the policing of peaceful protestors. The letter reminds the public bodies of their duty to exercise their functions proportionately in the wake of the proscription

The procurator fiscal has lodged a first notice with the Sheriff Court to begin the court process for a joint fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of Ruaridh Stevenson and Kayden Walker. Twelve-year-old Kayden, from Bridgeton, Glasgow, drowned after becoming trapped on the upstream side of a weir

A transgender pool player has lost a legal challenge against a governing body’s decision to exclude individuals not born biologically female from its women’s competitions. The English Blackball Pool Federation (EBPF) introduced the ban in August 2023, prompting professional player Harrie

CMS has announced global revenues for the financial year January-December 2024 of €2.073bn – representing a year-on-year growth rate of 5.9 per cent. Meanwhile, UK LLP revenue for financial year 2024/25 increased to GBP 779.1m, marking six per cent year-on-year growth.

A man accused of arson has said he set his apartment building on fire while trying to cremate his pet cat. Five people were displaced after the fire allegedly caused by 53-year-old Vince Hildestad, who went missing for a week afterwards.

Caledonia Housing Association (CHA) has appointed Harper Macleod and TC Young to a new legal services framework agreement following a competitive procurement process. This appointment represents an important milestone for CHA and underlines the Association’s commitment to best practice in gove

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have called on the Scottish government to urgently drive down the use of remand and invest in credible community orders after new figures showed an increase in the prison population. In June 2025 (up until the morning of Tuesday 1st July 2025):

Rents and capital values in Scotland’s commercial property sector are expected to increase in the short-term, supported by relatively low availability of industrial and office space and stable demand, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Q2 Commercial Propert

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Israeli human rights organisations accuse country of genocide

A teenager obsessed with mass murder who spoke of carrying out a Columbine-style school shooting in Edinburgh has been sentenced to six years in prison. Felix Winter, now 18, was described in court as having “idolised” the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which

So-called SLAPPs are being used in the UK to silence and intimidate people who expose or criticise the actions of authoritarian regimes including Russia and China, MPs have said. A new report published by Westminster's joint committee on human rights has called for stronger action to stop the growth