Crime is an inevitable outgrowth of capitalism. The ideology of the cash nexus between man and man are the prime social incentives to c...

Both the Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland have criticised the Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill. The Faculty of Advocates w...

24-year-old Ali al-Khawahir will be deliberately paralysis for stabbing his friend in the back 10 years ago unless he pays his victim 1m Sa...

The latest census reveals that in the UK respondents with no religion was up 10 points to 25%. A detailed survey in 2012 revealed that reli...

The Home Affairs Committee recently released a report on drugs use in Britain. After a year of research the committee concluded that "...

Defence lawyers are protesting against a change to the legal aid system contained in the Scottish Civil Justice Council and Criminal Legal ...

Lawyers in Edinburgh caused chaos in a court as they staged a walkout in a dispute over changes to the legal aid system. Anyone with more ...

In updated guidance to police, Frank Mullholland, Lord Advocate, Scotland’s most senior prosecutor, has warned singing or chanting songs whi...

Socialist Courier reads that MPs on Westminster’s Scottish affairs committee recommend that the Crown Estate Commissioners, the body respon...

Legal experts have raised concerns about a lack of justice over health and safety failures. Only 3% of complaints ever lead to a prosecution...

Ten years after legislation banned the blood-sport forever, fox-hunting still goes on. The Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act was pas...

The millionaire owner of the House of Bruar retail complex escaped a driving ban and was allowed to stay on the road despite now having 14 p...

Two solicitors who took millions of pounds from compensation payouts given to sick miners have been struck off. The Solicitors' Discipli...

Scotland's rank and file police are to call for the right to strike, currently denied them by law. Members of the Scottish Police Feder...

Two of Socialist Courier contributers felt the need to comment on recent health and safety statistics and the rise in deaths at work . Why i...

A junior barrister was handed more than £1 million in legal aid last year, it was revealed yesterday. Balbir Singh, head of Birmingham’s E...