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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Letter excerpts read in Senate accuse Australian Human Rights Commission of mistreating staff who support Palestine

A man whose head was bleeding after a hair transplant was arrested after refusing to leave a plane. Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier and his female companion were removed from the aircraft at Miami airport, local media reports.

Serious issues with the Scottish Parliament’s Assisted Dying Bill must be addressed to avoid uncertainly and negative outcomes, according to the Law Society of Scotland. The Law Society said it does not have a moral or ethical position on the stated objectives of the Assisted Dying for Termina

Pictured (L-R): Ellen Eunson, Sheila Tulloch, Alice Tait Anderson Strathern has established a permanent presence in Kirkwall, within the Orkney town’s historic ‘Old Library’.

Dentons' UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) region has retained 78 per cent of trainees and solicitor apprentices who applied for newly qualified roles in the UK in 2024, with a quarter of its new lawyers taking up roles in Scotland. Out of the 34 trainees and two apprentices who applied in the UK,

The Post Office has paid lawyers a quarter of a billion pounds in legal fees over the Horizon scandal, close to the amount given to victims. The state body paid out £256.9 million to 15 law firms and two barristers’ chambers between September 2014 and March 2024, according a freedom of i

A man who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a judge's daughter in Northern Ireland appealed directly to Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1969, a new file reveals. Iain Hay Gordon, from Glasgow, was found “guilty but insane” over the murder of Patricia Curran in 1952.

Foreign cybercriminals could be extradited as part of a crackdown on the rise in young people being targeted for sextortion – the practice of blackmailing them over sexual images. Gangs, often based in west Africa, trick teenagers into sending intimate pictures of themselves to fraudsters who

The Law Society of Scotland is launching a new award to celebrate legal pioneers within the sector as part of its 75th anniversary commemorations. Nominations for the Legal Pioneer Award are open to both solicitors and non-solicitors - past or present - who have made a significant contribution to Sc

A former Police Scotland officer who subjected three former partners to a campaign of controlling, violent and sexual abuse has been jailed. Christopher Ferguson was found guilty of nine charges on June 13 following a trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court.

Increasing deadly attacks against Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine State bear a "terrifying resemblance" to the atrocities of August 2017, Amnesty International said ahead of the seventh anniversary of the crisis. “As the seven-year anniversary of the Rohingya crisis nears, the horri

Turcan Connell partner Grierson Dunlop has been awarded associateship of the Royal Agricultural Societies by the Council for Awards of Royal Agricultural Societies, recognising his contribution to agricultural and land-based industries. The council acts on behalf of the UK’s four national Roya

Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been dismissed by the morality police for failing to grow beards. The Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue fired the beardless men – who are among 13,000 people who have been detained for immoral acts

Garden Stirling Burnet has opened an office in Leith.

Morton Fraser MacRoberts has been awarded bronze in the TIDE Awards, which evaluates an organisation’s performance in diversity and inclusion. The award highlights the firm’s achievements in diversity, inclusion and belonging across eight key areas: workforce, strategy and planning, lead