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Angela Wipat Angela Wipat looks at the divisive Named Person scheme and its latest developments.

The High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court has published a decision in which it refused an appeal by former Rangers owner Craig Whyte to have the fraud charge against him in relation to his takeover of the club dropped prior to the start of his trial. It was argued that a previous ruling which define

Kate Frame The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has identified numerous failings and made recommendations to police on their handling of a missing person case involving an elderly woman with dementia, who was later found dead.

Paul Harper By relaxing the rules on notice provisions, a Court of Session decision may have introduced uncertainty, writes Paul Harper.

Police Scotland has lost a legal case over a freedom of information challenge, The Press and Journal reports. The single force had refused to tell a journalist how many covert human intelligence sources it had established since its inception in 2013.

Roger Mullin About 30,000 tax haven firms will be forced to reveal the identities of their owners following a campaign by The Herald.

Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has said he is open to reexamining the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) bands in a move that could save homebuyers thousands of pounds. Ministers had previously remained firm on LBTT bands but Mr Mackay has now said he is willing to increase the upper limit of

Rangers Football Club were not required to pay the costs of a former chief executive’s defence to criminal proceedings brought against him, appeal judges ruled. The Inner House of the Court of Session upheld a decision of the Lord Ordinary, who ruled that Rangers International Football Club plc we

Kate Allen Amnesty International has called for improved training for police into how to deal with hate crime and for a review of the hate crime legal framework as it publishes a new briefing Against Hate: Tackling hate crime in the UK.

Advocate General Sharpston has clarified the criteria for determining an "emanation of the state" for the purposes of establishing the bodies against which an individual may bring a claim based on rights under an EU directive which has not been transposed correctly into national law. The concept of

Lord Uist The Crown has been told to “get its act together” by a judge after inappropriately marking cases for the Sheriff Court, The Herald reports.

The High Court in London has ruled that the application of the benefit cap to lone parents with children under two is unlawful because of its discriminatory impact upon children. The challenge was brought by four lone parent families for whom the reduced benefit cap has had, or will have, severe eff

Carol Ewart The Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland today warned that the independent inquiry into Scottish government’s handling of FoI requests, agreed by all parties in the Scottish Parliament yesterday, must be comprehensive, take evidence from requesters across society, and be ful

Shelagh McCall QC The convener of the Faculty of Advocates’ Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee, Shelagh McCall QC, has been appointed chair of JUSTICE Scotland.