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Legislation to champion the welfare of people receiving healthcare, with the creation of a patient safety commissioner, has been published. The commissioner’s remit, set out in the bill, will cover all healthcare providers operating in Scotland, including the NHS and NHS-contracted and indepen

Campaigners from Kenya, Indonesia and Afghanistan are undertaking a fellowship at the University of Dundee designed to support those at risk for their work in protecting human rights around the world. Riska Carolina, from Indonesia, and Junia, from Kenya, will spend up to six months at Dundee as par

An SNP minister has suggested that the Supreme Court will “fail the people of Scotland” if it rules that Holyrood cannot hold its own independence referendum. Michael Russell made the comments at the SNP conference in Aberdeen, despite the fact that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pre

Magdalena Wlochal has been appointed as a senior associate at Lyons Davidson. Ms Wlochal graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an LLB in 2014. She obtained her diploma in professional legal practice in 2016 at the University of Glasgow and qualified as a solicitor in 2018.

An appeal by a Polish citizen against a sheriff’s order to extradite him to Poland to serve a suspended prison sentence for mobile phone robberies he committed as a teenager has been refused by the High Court of Justiciary. Adam Osipczuk sought to argue that he was not a fugitive within the le

President Joe Biden has announced plans to pardon thousands of people with federal convictions for simple possession of cannabis in what is seen as a step towards the drug's decriminalisation in the United States. The pardons will not apply to people convicted under state laws, so will only affect a

A woman wanted by police was caught after she applied to work as a security guard at a police station. Zyeama Y. Johnson, 27, was wanted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for failing to appear in court 11 times in connection with various fraud and traffic charges.

Holyrood’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice committee has agreed to the general principles of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. The findings come as the committee publishes its stage one report on the bill which aims to improve the process for those applying for legal ge

Eleven new devils arrived at the MacKenzie Building this week to take the next step in their legal careers.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Events in Iran since Mahsa Amini's arrest and death in custody

A new series of public hearings have been scheduled for next year as part of the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry. Starting in April, evidence will be taken relating to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and Department for Clinical Neurosciences (RHCYP/DCN), Edinburgh.

Dundee's historic links to slavery are being acknowledged with the publication of Breaking the Chains, a city centre walking trail and map exploring the various ways in which the city is connected to the history of slavery and anti-slavery, much of which is still largely unknown to many Dundonians.

There’s a chilly wind blowing around many of our farmhouse doors. With some 80 per cent of Scotland’s land under agricultural production and the agri-food sector now the largest area of manufacturing in the UK, farmers and growers are currently facing new threats to their livelihoods not

In part one of this article yesterday, we considered the case for saying that taking timber from woodland is one of the recognised servitudes - i.e., included on the list of servitudes known to the law. On the one hand, the list of known servitudes in such standard works as the Stair Memorial Encycl

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has rejected a case by a company that bought a house on the island of Sanday in the Orkney Islands alleging abusive practices by the former directors of a local haulage firm in conjunction with the local council and its wholly owned ferry subsidiary. Blue Planet Holdi