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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Kennedys has announced the appointment of John Bruce as its new senior partner. He was appointed following a formal election ...

Dear Editor, Ian Moir is a truly deserving recipient of SLN's lawyer of the month award. His dogged commitment for a number ...

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