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Human rights lawyer Mashal Aamir has been named as the recipient of the 2024 International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.

Crates of bananas delivered to a discount supermarket chain were found to contain €7 million worth of cocaine. The drugs – 95 kilograms in total – were delivered to a number of stores in cities across the western German state of North-Rhine Westphalia, police said.

Blackadders LLP is celebrating after paralegal Nikki Scott was named Paralegal of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards last week. Ms Scott was raised in a small town in Wisconsin and is the mother of eight and grandmother of 10. She started her legal career at the age of 50 and has been with Blacka

Several people have been arrested in Switzerland, known for its liberal laws on assisted dying, in connection with a woman's death in a so-called "suicide pod". Prosecutors in Schaffhausen, the country's northern-most canton, were notified on Monday by a law firm that an assisted suicide with the Sa

Missouri has executed a convicted murderer who maintained his innocence for more than two decades, despite last-minute appeals from both defence and prosecution lawyers for a delay. Marcellus Williams, 55, was already serving a lengthy prison sentence for burglary offences when he was convicted in 2

Diversion from prosecution cases have risen sharply in Scotland. The number now sits at its highest since recording began, having increased by 28 per cent to 3,354 in the year to the end of March 2024.

Rogue police officers should be subject to criminal proceedings, a watchdog has said. The chief inspector of constabulary in Scotland, Craig Naylor, has given his backing to legislation to enact the change.

Barristers are demanding a 15 per cent rise in pay to match settlements secured by other public sector workers. They also want the UK government to establish an independent pay review body to try and bring an end to the repeated industrial disputes that resulted in their strikes in 2014 and 2022.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats justice have marked 1,000 days since Scotland's prison suicide strategy expired by revealing that in the last three years there have been more than 2,300 self-harm incidents in Scottish prisons. A freedom of information request submitted by the party has revealed 2,341

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with CIOT and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a seminar entitled ‘Gross Division & Net Proportionality in Estates – re Ratcliffe & re Benham revisited’ at the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Thursday 26 Septe

Freeths, which has an office in Glasgow, has seen its turnover grow by 13 per cent to £145.5m. The firm's latest published accounts reveal average annual turnover growth of more than 10 per cent over the last five years and an increase of £16.7m over the last 12 months.

MBM Commercial has been named Law Firm of the Year at the 2024 Scottish Legal Awards, held in Glasgow on September 19. The accolade is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the MBM Commercial team.

A seven-year-old child named after a Star Wars character was denied a British passport due to rights concerns. Loki Skywalker Mowbray's parents slipped in the reference because he was born on 4 May, celebrated by fans as 'Star Wars Day'.

The UK's most notorious cold cases could be solved using AI. Police chiefs think that cloud-based software Söze could be fed huge quantities of information to help detectives crack unsolved cases.

Every community in Scotland is to have local police officers, the chief constable has promised. Jo Farrell outlined the plan as part of her vision for 2030 in which she detailed ambitions for safer communities, less crime, supported victims, and a “thriving workforce”.