A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. US violating law to fund Israel despite alleged human rights abuses ...

Word reaches your scrivener that a well regarded seasoned journalist by the name of Claire Atkinson is engaged in writing an ...

The study of crime in a specific area is hardly a new idea: famously, Jack House wrote The Square Mile of Murder, which has ...

The biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history is "even wider than first thought", a solicitor has said. Hundreds of ...

Burges Salmon, which has an office in Edinburgh, has completed around 80 corporate and M&A transactions since January 2024, ...

An engineering company has been fined after a labourer died during the construction of a wind farm on the Shetland Islands. Liam MacDonald, from Tain, Ross-shire, lost his life on the morning of 5 ...

Japanese crime syndicates have reportedly begun using Pokémon trading cards to launder vast amounts of money. The former head of a crime syndicate told Japanese magazine Shunkan Gendai that his ...

Accounts for 2023/24 show the firm helped people after high-profile incidents like the Stonehaven derailment and the first jury trial win in seven years at the Court of Session. Its success was also ...

Appellant Daniel Donald, the defender in an action by respondent David Booth seeking reduction of a standard security in the appellant’s favour, argued that the sheriff had erred in finding there was ...

Over the course of 2024, Scottish Legal News published more than 240 articles in our popular And Finally section – sharing ...

Dr Andrew Forde responds to the furore over Ireland’s intention to intervene in cases brought against Israel and Myanmar under the Genocide Convention. The Tánaiste noted that Ireland will argue for a ...

Gisèle Pelicot’s ex-husband and 50 other men have been convicted of rape and other offences in the French mass trial which made global headlines. Dominique Pelicot, 72, who drugged and raped his then ...