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Two innovative US judges will give insights into their approach to justice at a special Faculty of Advocates event. Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren and Judge Victoria Pratt have ...

Lawyers from Brodies visited Maggie's this week to find out how it uses donations to support people living with cancer ahead of their arctic adventure this month ...

Domestic abuse offenders could be given mandatory lie-detector tests upon release from prison under new proposals. The polygraph tests are among the measures included in the Domestic ...

Pet dogs have been banned from public spaces in Tehran. Walking dogs in "public spaces, such as parks", and even driving them around in cars, will make ...

A woman who was assaulted by her mother when she was a baby has won a long-running legal battle for criminal injuries compensation after taking her appeal ...

Families are currently waiting up to eight years for fatal accident inquiries (FAI) to be conducted into the death of a loved one, figures obtained by the ...

Professor Sir David Edward, the former European Court of Justice judge, said Brexit has left him receptive to Scottish independence. Sir David set out his views as ...

The effects of a change in the law on workplace regulations introduced some five years ago are still to fully reveal themselves in Scotland, writes Lorna Ferguson. ...

People serving community payback orders (CPO) since their introduction in 2011 have generated around seven million hours of unpaid work, according to new figures. The Criminal Justice Social ...

Child migrants sent away by the UK government are to be each given £20,000 in compensation by the state. Between the 1920s and the 1970s, 130,000 children ...

A lawyer has cast doubt on the effectiveness of new powers to be given to victims of serious crimes to challenge Parole Board decisions on the release ...

A police chief has been cleared over claims of improper use of the force's firing range, The Herald reports. The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has rejected claims ...

New rules to reduce deaths in household fires have been announced, with improved standards introduced for fire and smoke alarms in Scottish homes. The improved standards will ...

A woman who mutilated her three-year-old child has become the first person in the UK to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM). The Ugandan woman, 37, ...

A study into Scotland’s most and least affordable cities has found that Aberdeen has seen the biggest boost in home affordability over the last five years. The ...