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The longest periods prisoners in Scotland have spent on remand continue to increase, new figures show. While median time on remand before departure remained at 21 days in 2022-23, the longest periods spent on remand have risen significantly. In 2017-18, 90 per cent of remand departures had occurred

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A bill to reform and modernise the law relating to judicial factors has been published. Judicial factors are appointed by courts to look after property belonging to someone else. For example, judicial factors can be appointed over a solicitors' firm where there has been a breach of the Law Society o

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A revised treaty with Rwanda addresses the Supreme Court's reservations about the government's controversial migrant policy, according to Home Secretary James Cleverly. Last month, the court ruled that the scheme, aimed at sending migrants to Rwanda, risked breaching human rights.

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The growth of litigation crowdfunding could lead to 'inverse SLAPPs' which appear to funders to be in the public interest but are "simultaneously meritless as a legal matter", a new report says. The warning comes in new research published by the Legal Services Board (LSB) in England and Wales last w

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Hundreds of thousands of litres of counterfeit olive oil have been seized as part of a wide-ranging criminal investigation into an international olive oil racket. Spanish and Italian police, working with Europol, arrested 11 people in closely co-ordinated raids targeting a gang believed to be produc

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A bill about water meters that was passed unanimously by a city council in Brazil was written entirely by ChatGPT. The bill's sponsor revealed on X, formerly Twitter, that the law, which came into force on 23 November, involved no legislative brainstorming but was produced after 15 seconds from a co

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The rules on placing transgender criminals in women's jails have been tightened. Transgender women will not be permitted to transfer to the female estate if they have been convicted of “any offences that perpetrate violence against a female that results in physical, sexual, or psychological ha

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UEFA has launched an investigation after "sex noises" disrupted the draw of groups for the Euro 2024 championship and were broadcast internationally. "Unexplained moaning noises" could be heard as members of Group A – of Germany, Scotland, Hungary and Switzerland – were drawn in Hamburg,

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