There is an urgent need for much clearer and comprehensive standards and their application on the use of solitary confinement ...

Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband and 50 other men have been convicted of rape and other offences in the French mass trial which ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The PSNI and the Metropolitan Police unlawfully spied on investigative journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, the ...

Digby Brown Solicitors recovered a record £160 million in compensation for clients last year. Accounts for 2023/24 show the ...

As many as 1,360 children have never been reunited with their parents six years after they were forcibly separated at the US ...

Convictions rose by 15 per cent in 2022-23 to 68,067, new figures from Scotland’s chief statistician show. The figures ...