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A teenager has landed in hot water after allegedly impersonating his school headteacher and faxing a resignation letter to school authorities. The 17-year-old student at a New York high school was arrested and now faces a charge of criminal impersonation, WSAZ NewsChannel 3 reports.

TC Young's Neil Matheson was named “Associate of the Year” at the inaugural Scottish Professional Awards on Friday evening.

Clear guidelines should be established for the generation and processing of synthetic data to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness, a new study says. Synthetic data – generated through machine learning algorithms from original real-world data – is gaining prominence because i

Stirling University law lecturer Domenico Carolei has presented research on NGO regulation and accountability at the European Parliament. Dr Carolei, a lecturer in public international law and public law, spoke last week at the event, entitled NGO Regulation and Accountability: normative p

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An initiative to digitally transform how victims and witnesses in criminal cases can access information and guidance relevant to them online has been launched by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS). COPFS has recently began piloting a Witness Gateway, an online secure solution. Th

An American politician has been gently admonished for accidentally leaving a loaded firearm in a state legislature bathroom. Don Wilson, a Republican member of the Colorado House of Representatives, apparently placed the 9mm Glock handgun on a shelf and forgot about it, NBC News reports.

The Scottish government is not doing enough to engage the public on climate change and Scotland’s climate change targets. This is the collective view expressed in a report published by 23 members of the public, selected at random from across Scotland, who recently came together at Holyrood to

The total debt of the top 50 law firms in the UK has reached £5.4 billion as they struggle to get clients to pay up. Data from accountancy firm Lubbock Fine found that the debt has rise by £177 million in the past year, City A.M. reports.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Chinese authorities still persecute dissidents’ families years after their release | Voice of America

Better-looking lawyers are more likely to win their cases, according to a new study. Research undertaken at the University of Illinois gathered data on more than 1,000 US court cases and obtained photos and courtroom videos of the attorney involved.

Bookings are now being taken for the Faculty of Advocates’ 16th annual World Intellectual Property Day Conference. The popular lunchtime hybrid event will take place in the Mackenzie Building in Edinburgh and online later this month. The theme for this year is ‘Intellectual Property and

Katia Sher and Emma Kolbuc have won this year's Internal Mooting Competition at the University of Dundee. Throughout the competition, organised annually by the university's Mooting Society, participants tackle a range of complex legal issues, including topics such as duty of care and medic

Justice Secretary Angela Constance has said that the spike in hate crime reports in the first week of new legislation coming into force shows "how vital tackling hate crime is", despite the fact that only 3.5 per cent of reports had been recorded. Police Scotland has received 7,152 online hate

A new Scottish Pubs Code will enable eligible tied pub tenants to sell a guest beer from brands that have small production levels or switch to a market rate lease under which they could purchase products from any supplier. Ministers will lay secondary legislation in the Parliament next week which, i