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The jailed former office manager of an Edinburgh property firm who embarked on a luxury lifestyle after embezzling company funds has been ordered to pay back more than £211,000. Emma Hunt, 38, who was imprisoned for three years in August last year after a jury found her guilty of fraud and emb

A joint investigation by BBC Scotland’s Disclosure and Radio 4’s File on 4 programmes will reveal allegations that workers from around the world may have been trafficked to work for a trawler fishing business based on Scotland’s south coast. Disclosure: Slavery at Sea and File on 4

The number of asylum seekers who have died in Home Office care has more than doubled in the past year, The Guardian reports. Though some deaths occurred due to illness or old age, others were suicides. Charities worry that the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK has adversely affected their health

Prisoner transfer firm GEOAmey was responsible for inmates arriving to court late more than 14,000 times in the six months to last September, new figures show. As a result, there were 1,516 delays to court proceedings due to late arrivals or failures to bring prisoners to courtrooms. In addition, th

Edinburgh Law School’s Global Justice Academy (GJA) is now a part of the Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN). OCEAN unites universities and research institutions from the Council of Europe’s 46 members states, all focused on the shared goal of human rights, democracy, and th

Evidence produced at the first trial of Lucy Letby indicating which staff had been in the baby unit she worked in was incorrect, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has admitted. The nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six at the Countess of Chester hospital

PwC has been fined £15 million by the the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report suspicions of fraud at now-defunct London Capital & Finance (LCF).

Jennifer Sturrock has joined Thorntons as a senior solicitor in the firm's private client team in Dundee. She advises on a wide range of private client matters including executry administration, wills, powers of attorney, inheritance tax planning, care home cost planning and legal rights issues.

A judge has quashed more than 74,000 convictions which followed unlawful prosecutions for rail fare evasion in England and Wales. Four train operating companies wrongly used the 'single justice procedure' (SJP) to prosecute offences contrary to section 5(1) or 5(3) of the Regulation of the Railways

A care home has been fined £500,000 for health and safety failings which led to the death of a 54-year-old woman. HC-One Limited, who ran Arcadia Gardens Care Home in Glasgow, pled guilty to a health and safety at work breach committed in March 2017.

A star American footballer has unexpectedly come to the defence of a woman jailed for stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings. Chris Jones, a player for the Kansas City Chiefs, has offered to pay for the wings in order to secure Vera Liddell's release from prison, USA Today reports.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Palestinian rights group calls for closure of ‘Israeli torture camps’ | Al Jazeera

Victims of the infected blood scandal are to receive compensation this year, the UK government has confirmed. More than 3,000 people died because they became infected with diseases including HIV and Hepatitis C as a result of transfusions with infected blood in the 1970s and 1990s.

The Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland will again be joint national sponsors of the Legal Walks, organised annually by the Access to Justice Foundation to raise money to fund much-needed pro bono services. The Scottish Legal Walks have gone from two in 2021 to five in 2024. This is

Family members of David Maxwell Fyfe, architect of the European Convention on Human Rights, will launch their year of commemorative performances at the Fringe this weekend.