A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. 'Hell on earth': China deportation looms for Uyghurs held in ...

The High Court of Justiciary has increased the length of an extended sentence imposed on a man who groomed a teenage girl into having sex with him and made indecent communications towards another ...

County lines’ is a sub-genre, but not a lesser one, of the lucrative business involving controlled drugs. It is constituted ...

Immediate action will be taken to address systemic failures in relation to deaths in prison custody, Justice Secretary Angela Constance has pledged. The Scottish government said it accepts Sheriff Col ...

Laura Paton has been appointed as the next Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC). Currently His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prosecution in Scotland, Ms Paton will take up her role as ...

Scottish Land & Estates, the rural business organisation, has urged a complete rethink of the Land Reform Bill, warning that ...

Iraqis have reacted with horror after the country's parliament passed a law allowing children as young as nine to marry. The ...

Edinburgh-based solicitor and estate agent Ralph Sayer has promoted Robyn Donaldson to partner in the firm. At 31, she ...

Harper Macleod has advised on the sale of Glasgow-based McDonach IT Consultancy Ltd to IT Resolution Group Ltd, a company led ...

The Scottish Sentencing Council has published a report on a review of the operation of the Sentencing young people guideline ...

A very important lesson for those embroiled in disputes – and for their lawyers, too – popped up last week in the postscript ...

Complete your mandatory risk management CPD with our webinar on the new corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent ...