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Professor Dame Sue Black Expert witnesses could be discouraged from giving evidence if plans to televise trials go ahead, according to a leading forensic scientist.

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has upheld a court ruling that a 96-year-old man is fit to serve a four-year jail sentence for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at Auschwitz. Oskar Gröning, known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz", was an accountant at the death camp, where he sorted an

Tech giant Apple is facing criminal prosecution in France over allegations that its phones, by slowing down as they get older, fall foul of France's "planned obsolescence" laws. In 2015, France became the first country in the world to introduce legislation criminalising "planned obsolescence" - wher

Drones have been flown into Scottish prisons 22 times in the past two years, figures obtained under a freedom of information request show. On five of those occasions, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were found to contain drugs and mobile phones upon interception, The Scotsman reports.

Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC Drivers are to be offered courses on the dangers of speeding instead of license points in a bid to curb the number of speeders.

The Supreme Court of Finland has begun publishing part of its precedents as summaries in English. The summaries concern precedents that are perceived to attract interest among the member states of the European Union or otherwise internationally.

Kate Frame The Scottish Police Authority's complaints handling procedure has been severely criticised in a new report.

Yann Robin Yann Robin looks at employee compensation for inventions of outstanding benefit to employers in the UK's patent regime.

David McIndoe Harper Macleod has highlighted a surge in the number of million pound-plus house sales it advised on in Scotland in the second half of 2017, following reports that numbers had dropped significantly in the first half of the year.

James Bridgeman SC Irish barrister James Bridgeman SC has been elected global president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

Caroline Docherty and Lord Mackay of Clashfern

A panel which regulates company takeovers has been granted a court order requiring the chairman of Rangers Football Club to make an offer for all the issued ordinary share capital of Rangers International Football Club Plc not already controlled by him. A judge in the Court of Session found in favou

Jamie Meechan There can be little doubt that Brexit, Donald Trump and Love Island stole the headlines in 2017 but it was also a busy year for employers. So as the year draws to a close, and we all look forward to Christmas, now is a good time to reflect on what we learnt in 2017, writes Jamie Meecha

The repeated use of the word ‘victim’ by Scottish prosecutors to refer to both victims of crime and alleged victims has no basis in law, according to legal experts. This week, the head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC signed a memor

Members of the public would support restrictions on who can refer to themselves as a lawyer. There are current and long standing legal restrictions on who can call themselves solicitors or advocates. However, there is no such restriction on the use of the term lawyer with any person able to use that