There have been several U-turns by the Scottish Government recently, notably on juryless rape trials and the proposed ban on woodburning stoves in new-builds. Today, one of our readers argues that the ...

PARIS — French Senator Mélanie Vogel first proposed changing the legal definition of rape nearly a year ago. But it took a gruesome crime that deeply unsettled French society to get the ball rolling ...

Lawyers and judges said the plan, part of a new justice reform bill, first proposed in April 2023, could breach human rights laws and had threatened a boycott. All rape and attempted rape trials ...

Image caption, Rape Crisis Scotland chief executive Sandy Brindley supported the proposal The Scottish government's Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill, external, published in ...

SNP Justice Secretary Angela Constance has confirmed that the juryless rape trials pilot will be scrapped from the proposed Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill being tabled by ...

The Scottish Government has scrapped controversial plans to hold trials for rape and attempted rape without a jury. The proposal in the new Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill ...

Australian Bar Association president Peter Dunning KC ­questioned the timing of the bill and warned that the proposal would mean ... with the Australian Law Reform ­Commission due to hand ...

“Clearly there is not enough parliamentary support at this time for the proposal to enable a time-limited pilot of single-judge trials for cases of rape and attempted rape, so we will no longer ...

Rape Crisis Scotland chief executive Sandy Brindley supported the proposal The Scottish government's Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill, published in April 2023, included the plan.

A proposal to experiment with judge-only trials for cases of rape and attempted rape has been cancelled by the Scottish ...

Subjects that have nothing to do with taxes have become two of the most controversial topics during the Legislature’s third ...