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President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger said in a speech that judges have taken power from democratically-elected politicians by taking advantage of European and human rights legislation.

Alison Saunders, director of public prosecutions The number of convictions related to violent crimes against women increased in England and Wales last year new figures show.

Lord Malcolm An advocate has successfully appealed against a complaints body’s decision that he provided an “inadequate professional service” in a case in which he was acting as counsel for a pursuer in Court of Session action.

A woman who made false domestic abuse allegations has been sentenced to two months imprisonment while her mother has been handed a community payback order. At Jedburgh Sheriff Court Sheriff Kevin Drummond QC sentenced Gayle Hunter to two months imprisonment and imposed a community payback order on h

A convicted criminal who was refused audience with Scottish judges on the matter of privately prosecuting the Lord Advocate is to to appeal to the UK Supreme Court. Russell Stirton, 54, sought the permission of the Criminal Appeal Court in Edinburgh to privately prosecute Frank Mulholland QC.

A prisoner has been awarded £480,000 after medicine he was prescribed gave him an erection for six days – leaving him impotent. Rodney Cotton, 50, of Brooklyn, New York, said prison wardens ignored his pleas for help as he lay in solitary confinement.

The next generation of workers will work very differently, writes Simon Allison. Millennial: born between 1982 and 1995, millennial is the term used to describe the next generation of workers.

Philip Rodney Philip Rodney chairman of Burness Paull comes under the SLN Spotlight this week.

Lady Stacey A prisoner whose confidential correspondence was opened by prison authorities had his human rights breached, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled.

A boy who was caught with Ecstasy at a festival has avoided getting a criminal record after he wrote a 500-word essay on drugs for a sheriff. Aaron Bertram, 17, was found with Ecstasy at T in the Park last year but was granted an absolute discharge after penning an essay entitled: “The Perils of D

Shami Chakrabarti This week's SLN Spotlight falls on Shami Chakrabarti (pictured), who has been director of Liberty since 2003. She was called to the English bar in 1994 and was a lawyer in the Home Office between 1996 and 2001. She will be discussing themes from her book On Liberty at a CPD-accredi

A man who claimed that his late grandmother had promised to gift him her house in a testamentary writing has had an action for conveyance of the property against the executor of the estate dismissed. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that the pursuer “failed to prove that the deceased entered

It has emerged a police force avoided investigating break-ins at odd-numbered houses in an attempt to save money. Leicestershire Police ran a pilot scheme which they said did not negatively affect public satisfaction or indeed crime rates, the BBC reports.

Sir John Chilcot The families of British soldiers who died fighting in Iraq are warning they may take legal action against the head of the inquiry into the UK's decision to go to war and its involvement in Iraq until 2009.

A worker at Faslane Naval Base has been convicted of killing a man with a single punch after losing £1,000 at a casino in Glasgow. Kallum Delaney, 20, admitted punching 27-year old Robin Thomson outside the casino in the early hours of 23 September 2014, but claimed Mr Thomson had challenged him to