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Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria are still being neglected by the country’s authorities, one year after Amnesty International’s report and launch of the #EmpowerOurGirls campaign. In June 2024, Amnesty International published 'Help us build our

Fearless, the youth service of independent charity Crimestoppers, has launched a new Scotland-wide education resource, aimed at helping young people better understand, recognise and respond to sextortion.  The launch at Meldrum Academy in Aberdeenshire marks a key milestone in Fearless’ s

Legislation has been amended to ensure veterans who receive a payment from the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme do not lose out on council tax support.   More than 1,200 people in Scotland who served under and suffered from the ban on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) personne

Harper Macleod is now part of a new initiative: the next phase of the UK Space Agency Accelerator. The programme is designed to support space entrepreneurs across the UK, helping them grow their businesses and strengthen the wider space sector.

Public inquiries are imposing an "escalating and unsustainable burden" on Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) has claimed, citing a growing financial and operational crisis exacerbated by six major inquiries currently under way. In evidence submitted to Holyrood’s Finance and

Scotland’s criminal defence solicitors are to withdraw from a new flagship summary justice scheme in protest at the Scottish government’s failure to increase legal aid rates. The Scottish Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) has confirmed that its members will no longer participate in imple

A drugs trafficker who tried to smuggle cannabis worth more than £1 million into Scotland from a car ferry has been jailed for three years and two months. Police officers discovered the controlled drugs after carrying out a search of Chace Cappellie’s vehicle at the Stena Line port at Ca

A runaway zebra has been caught by police and airlifted back to his owner after absconding for over a week. Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee said the zebra, named Ed, was finally tracked down on Sunday after several sightings.

On 4 June the Supreme Court hosted an event entitled 'The Future of International Law', which saw court President Lord Reed in conversation with Lord Lloyd-Jones and Professor Dapo Akande.  The event was attended by senior representatives from the legal world, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Deve

More than 2,000 blades, alongside guns, ammunition and other weapons, were confiscated at Scottish court buildings over the past year, newly released figures show. Data obtained by the Daily Record through a freedom of information request reveals that security staff intercepted thousands of weapons

Solicitors employed on the Scottish Legal Aid Board’s emergency helpline have backed strike action over changes to shift patterns, The Scotsman reports. Sixteen solicitors working on the Solicitor Contact Line voted for industrial action following complaints that management had imposed 12-hour

One of the world’s foremost experts in forensic investigation will deliver a public lecture at the University of Dundee later this month exploring how science and technology are used in criminal investigations. Dr Sheila Willis, former director general of Forensic Science Ireland, will deliver

The new interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), Dame Vera Baird, has described the body as “incompetent". Dame Vera, a former solicitor general and victims’ commissioner, criticised the watchdog’s handling of the Andrew Malkinson case, where it failed to refer

The International Bar Association (IBA) has condemned new sanctions against International Criminal Court judges by the US as an attack against the global rule of law and the independence of judges. IBA president Jaime Carey said: "Since its founding in 1947, the IBA has endeavoured to protect and ad

Child law solicitor Lauren Fowler has passed away.