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The Scottish Human Rights Commission is developing its Strategic Plan for 2016-2020. To help it set out its priorities and improve how it works, it would like to hear from people and organisations from across Scotland’s communities.

Richard Monkhouse Magistrates are giving criminals lower sentences on purpose to avoid imposing controversial courts charges The Times reports.

The trial of a man accused of historical child sex offences has collapsed after prosecutors included charges on the indictment for which they had “no supporting evidence”. A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh deserted the indictment simplicter after ruling that the Crown had created “oppress

Jennifer Young Ledingham Chalmers has increased group turnover to £12.5 million, exceeding 2014’s record turnover by 0.76 per cent.

Lord Phillips Over 340 leading ex-judges and lawyers have criticised the UK government's response to Europe's refugee crisis in an open letter published in The Times.

Dame Elish Angiolini New laws on burials and cremations will mean another Mortonhall baby ashes scandal will never reoccur it has been claimed.

Mike Dailly Mike Dailly suggests an unequal relationship between tenants and landlords means many of the former are leading lives of misery.

Ewan MacLeod The Scottish government’s announcement that it would be putting in place a moratorium on granting planning permission for underground coal gasification (UGC) projects until the outcome of a potentially lengthy independent investigation could result in claims under the European Convent

Tim Whewall BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme has investigated a "mind-bogglingly" complex financial scam which has seen Europe's poorest country robbed of $1 billion – with the trail leading to an ex-council flat in Edinburgh and fraudsters who have availed themselves of the Scottish Limited P

Richard Lochhead Legislation to protect Scotland's livestock from Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) has come into effect.

Holyrood's Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee has issued a call for written evidence as it prepares to scrutinise the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Bill. The objective of the bill is to replace the Short Assured Tenancy and Assured Tenancy by introducing a new single tenancy fo

Fishermen have launched an application to secure protected name status for the Orkney crab. The European Union scheme protects certain food names on grounds of geography or recipe to safeguard them against imitators.

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has said people must be able to access justice without having to instruct lawyers. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd made the comments in New Zealand, one of the jurisdictions he is visiting on his Magna Carta tour.

The Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland Legislation that would tackle the rise of so-called "revenge porn" and modernise the law around domestic abuse has been published by the Scottish government.