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Bobbie Cheema-Grubb QC A barrister is to become the first female Asian High Court judge.

Denise Mc Bride QC (left) and Siobhan Keegan QC

A woman jailed for assaulting a deaf pensioner for whom she had previously performed “sexual favours” has had her conviction quashed because the complainer knew the sign language interpreter at her trial. The Criminal Appeal Court ruled that a “miscarriage of justice” had occurred after the

Dame Elish Angiolini QC Dame Elish Angiolini QC has been appointed to lead a major review into deaths in police custody.

Jim Morris The families of those who died in the Clutha helicopter disaster have said the final report into the incident leaves “more questions than answers”.

David Anderson QC A proposed law will give British spies the right to hack into smartphones and computers The Times reports.

Kate Frame

Frank Mulholland QC The Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC has today called for restraint from all parties in the provision and publication of information relating to the death of Sheku Bayoh.

Joan Spencer

A man who secretly took a screenshot of a photograph of a woman’s private parts from her mobile phone and sent it to a third party has had an appeal to be taken off the sex offenders register refused. Aidan McHugh, 21, who pled guilty to a statutory breach of the peace charge, became subject to th

A man who challenged the admission in evidence of material that revealed his membership of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and meant he was convicted of being a member of a proscribed organisation has failed in his appeal to the UK Supreme Court that the material should have been excluded at trial.

The Law Society of Scotland has paid tribute to past president, Michael Scanlan, who passed away yesterday. Mr Scanlan served as president of the Law Society between 1999 and 2000 and chaired many of the Society’s committees, including the remuneration, insurance and education & training commi

Derek Penman Edinburgh has the highest crime rate and lowest detection rate in Scotland according to a watchdog.

Measures aimed at creating a modern and comprehensive framework for burials and cremations are to be examined by two Holyrood committees. The Health and Sport Committee and the Local Government and Regeneration Committee will both scrutinise the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Bill, each looking at

The European Court of Human Rights is holding a Grand Chamber hearing today in the case of Hutchinson v the United Kingdom. The case concerns the complaint by a man serving a whole life sentence for murder that his sentence amounts to inhuman and degrading treatment as he has no hope of release.