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Thieves, robbers and burglars will be given GPS tags to track their whereabouts when they are released from prison in order to curb re-offending. Data from tags will let police check details of burglaries against movements of known offenders to determine whether they might be suspects.

Benjamin Bestgen turns his eye to the legalities of torture this week. See last week's jurisprudential primer here. Torture is a disturbingly common feature in our entertainment. In medieval or horror stories but also war and crime movies, books or TV series, the bad guys routinely torture innocents

The mother of a cheerleader has been accused of creating deepfake images of her daughter's teammates after the girl was spurned by them. Raffaela Spone, 50, took photos of three members of the Victory Vipers from social media before creating deepfake images.

A sheriff has ordered the discharge under the Extradition Act 2003 of an Albanian national who had a European Arrest Warrant issued against him after he failed to attend a trial for attempted murder in Italy.  An application was brought on behalf of a court in Trieste, Italy, by the&n

The Lord Advocate must not be permitted to “mark his own homework” over the botched Rangers fraud prosecution which has resulted in compensation of more than £20 million paid to the victims of the malicious prosecution, a court has heard. Dean of Faculty, Roddy Dunlop QC, said his

The Civil Recovery Unit is to recover £6.46 million under proceeds of crime legislation after an Aberdeen company accepted it had benefited from unlawful conduct. WGPSN admitted one of its subsidiaries, PSNA Limited, had benefitted from payments made to Unaoil to secure contracts in Kazakhstan

As you noted on 12 March, a sheriff in Dumbarton had said that a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a seaman had been hampered by a decade of delay on the part of the Crown. What is particularly worrying is that in a newspaper report there is mention of another case in which there was also a 1

BTO's Laura Salmond has been accredited as an employment law specialist by the Law Society of Scotland. Ms Salmond joins fellow partners Caroline Carr and Jacqueline McCluskey who have held the same accreditation for 20 and 10 years respectively.

The average volume of properties advertised on the market has fallen by nearly 22 per cent since the November peak according to property firm Apropos. The firm has analysed data which reveals that the average number of properties advertised has fallen by 21.9 per cent across the largest 20 cities in

The stage three debate on a bill to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) directly into Scots law will take place today. If passed, the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill will mean public authorities will be bound by law to uphold the rights of children and young people

Incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law will provoke radical change and challenge those in power, Scotland's Children's Commissioner has told Glasgow Caledonian University's inaugural Law and The Common Good Lecture. Speaking on the eve of today's Scottish Parliamen

DWF has advised Aliter Capital-backed Sponge, a digital learning provider, on the acquisition of Idox Compliance from its parent company Idox plc. Sponge offers training solutions ranging from risk and compliance to people development and skills enhancement. It is backed by Aliter Capital LLP, a spe

Spain could become one of the first countries to trial a four-day working week after the government agreed to launch a pilot project for interested companies. Earlier this year, the small leftwing Más País party announced that the government had accepted its proposal to pilot

Blackadders LLP is raising funds for Comic Relief this month. Comic Relief supports the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children in the UK and around the world.

The cladding crisis in Scotland will be the subject of a free online seminar this week. On Thursday, 18 March, from 6-8pm, Watermans Legal will be joined by a panel of industry experts who will cover a wide range of topics associated with the cladding crisis.