Justice

Ex-SNP councillor sentenced for sexual assaults on women

Lewis Ritchie, 38, was previously planning convenor on City of Edinburgh Council

Seeking justice: Service cuts pose a threat to the success of community justice

Community justice is supposed to be at the heart of making Scotland a “modern and progressive nation”, but cuts across a range of services will make it a tall order to pull off

Government should create three new crimes to tackle misogyny, Kennedy report finds

Anas Sarwar: Provide free residential care for over 65s

Trans people can self-declare sex in upcoming Scottish census, Court of Session rules

UK and Scottish ministers face grilling over drug deaths

Committee sets out proposals to change justice system

Lord Advocate orders fresh inquiry into how sexual crimes are prosecuted

A fresh approach: An interview with Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain QC

Over 1,000 drug-deaths in first nine months of 2021

Government launches consultation on the future of not proven verdict

Ban pimping websites, MSPs say

Damning report calls for overhaul in prison death investigation

Comment: It's time we stopped putting children in prison

Tories say SNP custody changes would let 'rapists and killers back on streets after serving fraction of sentence'

Protest policing ‘may well look quite messy’ says Scotland’s chief constable

More than two-thirds of Scotland's murders are drug-related

In Context: Misogyny as a hate crime

Tories call for Scotland's worst criminals to be left in prison for the rest of their lives

Scotland to consider Parades Commission

Justice secretary offers apology over Police Scotland's crash failures

More than half of all Scottish police officers want access to handguns, according to new poll

#NotAMob: Kenmure Street residents call on Home Secretary Priti Patel to visit local community

Podcast: "There's a potential for the hate crime act to be weaponised..."

Comment: 1,339 lives cut short by drugs, but still the political blame game goes on

Drug-deaths rose to 1,339 in 2020