There is an urgent need for much clearer and comprehensive standards and their application on the use of solitary confinement ...

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. US violating law to fund Israel despite alleged human rights abuses ...

Word reaches your scrivener that a well regarded seasoned journalist by the name of Claire Atkinson is engaged in writing an ...

The study of crime in a specific area is hardly a new idea: famously, Jack House wrote The Square Mile of Murder, which has ...

Convictions rose by 15 per cent in 2022-23 to 68,067, new figures from Scotland’s chief statistician show. The figures ...

The biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history is "even wider than first thought", a solicitor has said. Hundreds of ...

Burges Salmon, which has an office in Edinburgh, has completed around 80 corporate and M&A transactions since January 2024, ...

Digby Brown Solicitors recovered a record £160 million in compensation for clients last year. Accounts for 2023/24 show the ...

Parents are being urged not to turn puppy love at Christmas into a financial pipeline for criminal gangs. Millions of pounds ...

The WS Society is launching an AI special interest group (SIG) for its members. Fiona Killen will lead the AI SIG. She said: ...

Becoming a partner in a law firm is an incredible achievement. You have worked really hard to get there, following the ...

Asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands controversially retained by the UK ...