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Channel 5 has been ordered by a court to pay a couple £10,000 after it broadcast their eviction. Shakar Ali, 52, and his wife Shaida Aslam, 49, from Barking in East London, were filmed on the TV show Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away after they fell into rent arrears.

Pictured (L-R): David Mathieson, Eve Torrie, Graham Taylor, Anne McKeown, Stuart Mackie

A convicted murderer who sought legal aid for a UK Supreme Court appeal against a ruling upholding a decision by the Scottish Information Commission to refuse to order the release of CCTV footage he believes will help prove his innocence has had his claim for state funding refused. “Limbs in the l

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Jamie Kerr A top immigration lawyer has called for an urgent review of the UK’s business immigration rules as companies across the country are being denied access to foreign staff – unless they pay them more than £55,000 per year.

James Wolffe QC Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC has attended an international summit which aims to establish a strong and active international network of expert prosecutors tackling people trafficking, modern slavery, and forced labour.

Salil Shetty Austerity is undermining human rights around the world, Amnesty International has said in its annual global report for 2017/18.

Fines dodgers have been warned to pay up before they try to fly after a number of non-payers were arrested at airports in Scotland and England. A man coming back from holiday in the Netherlands with a group of friends was arrested at Liverpool Airport over unpaid fines amounting to £770. The man, f

People who commit domestic abuse offences are more likely to go to jail under new sentencing guidelines published today. The guidance provides that domestic offences should be treated as more serious than similar crimes which do not involve partners or family members.

A former sheriff whose wife divorced him while he was on holiday has asked a judge to scrap the ruling. Raj Jandoo, 60, Scotland’s first Asian advocate, said he returned home from a holiday in India in 2016 to find his wife, Nerinder Kaur, had been granted a divorce.

Pictured: Alison Gilson (left) and Liana Di Ciacci. Credit: Peter Devlin Photography

A man found guilty of domestic abuse offences despite his former partner denying that she had been assaulted has had an appeal against his conviction dismissed. The appellant claimed that the sheriff erred in repelling a defence submission of “no case to answer”, but the Appeal Court of the High

An appeal by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police over the nature of the duty to investigate ill-treatment amounting to a violation of article 3 of the ECHR has been unanimously dismissed by justices in the Supreme Court.

Michael Matheson The controversial integration of the British Transport Police (BTP) into Police Scotland has been delayed until after next April.