A Scottish local authority has been granted decree of absolvitor in an action by an asylum seeker who sought to establish that he had been aged under 18 when first accommodated by the authority. Abdra ...

A pilot granting access to free transcripts for complainers in High Court sexual offence cases has been extended for 12 ...

Members of the Scottish Human Rights Commission are travelling again to the Highlands and Island in February and March to ...

A man who carried out a campaign of violence and control towards women while moving around the country has been jailed for 14 years. Chef David Robertson, 28, from Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, wa ...

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched a free online tool to help organisations ensure their direct ...

Cocaine is as harmless as whiskey and only illegal "because it is made in Latin America", the president of Colombia has said.

Legislation aiming to simplify the funding system for learners at college and university and apprentices in Scotland has been published. The Scottish government has introduced the Tertiary ...

The US is to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Donald Trump accused it of having "engaged in ...

Thane Lawrie joined the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) board this month. The appointment is for five years.

Autocracy, Inc is a small book, with a dark paper cover, that sets out in disturbing detail the attacks, overt and covert, by ...

Two bereaved families have launched a legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after they were denied ...

Legislation aiming to simplify the funding system for learners at college and university and apprentices in Scotland has been ...